For a variety of reasons there is both the perception and the reality that women have a tough time in tech. It’s true. There are issues with hostile work and study environments, challenges penetrating the VC old boy network and even general societal bias pushing women away from STEM educations and…

** Before reading any further please ensure MS17-010 patch has been applied to all your Windows Systems** History Our story begins in August 2016, when a hacker group called The Shadow Brokers made their first appearance, offering files claimed stolen from The Equation Group, a threat actor with…

EternalBlue is a server message block (SMB) vulnerability that can lead to code execution. It is part of the toolkit called FuzzBunch released by Shadow Brokers, much like the firewall toolkit we covered last August. FuzzBunch is an exploit framework, similar to MetaSploit. It contains a lot of…

Congress voted to dissolve privacy protections for broadband subscribers in a 50-48 vote on March 28, 2017. The rules would have limited data collection, require user to opt-in to further collection and require ISPs to in-turn be transparent when there is a break or hack of their network. Friends…

We have had crime for about as long as we have existed as a species – arguably longer. We have also had stupid criminals for about the same length of time. The best and brightest are off being great and outrunning much larger groups of B and C players. The others, well, some of them turn to crime…

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are continuing to grow in size and frequency, and hitting a larger number of organizations than ever before: that’s the message from the latest Worldwide DDoS Attacks & Cyber Insights Research Report from Neustar. 84% of the 1000-plus organizations…

Network visibility is a crucial aspect to improving network security and optimizing network monitoring capabilities. At the same time, it is an evolving technology. In this blog, I’m using some interesting data that Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) captured in a survey they conducted for Ixia…

Security incident investigations are never easy – getting users to admit all their Internet activities (which they might sometimes want to keep secret) is difficult and walking through logs and histories can be cumbersome. But sometimes the user doesn’t have anything to hide – they were simply…