Hacking Back With The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act
H.R. 3270 …also known as the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (ACDC), will, if it becomes law, allow victims of hacking to execute self-defense outside of their networks. The essence of this bill was originally introduced in 2017 as H.R. 4036, which...
Not all Anomalous Behavior is Malicious – Not all Malicious Behavior is Anomalous!
Malicious behavior: we generally know it when we see it Most of the time, unfortunately, malicious behavior is hidden from view. Consider that the average dwell time for cyberattackers within networks is still measured in months. Per FireEye, the global median dwell...
Carbanaks War Against Financial Institutions – Deception Can Help
Carbanak has been at war with financial institutions for about five years nowWe expect this war to continue and escalate. Carbanak is, of course, the devastatingly powerful banking trojan that has plagued financial institutions since approximately 2014. Carbanak’s...
Protecting Industrial Control Systems From Cyber Attack – The Three Great Myths
The Threat to ICS in Context Industrial control systems (ICS) are the key infrastructure targets for nation-state attackers and fringe bad actors seeking to compromise or destroy public utilities and manufacturing industry operations. In some cases simple tools such...
The Great Coronavirus Deception
The Current Corona Virus Crisis We are all very much aware of the current Coronavirus crisis. Of course, all of us want information on the virus and constantly reach out for news and updates. Cyber attackers have taken advantage of this and responded with a virtual...
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