The exploit kit landscape has continued its downfall started in the summer of 2016 and its leading player —the RIG exploit kit— has stopped delivering any ransomware strains in 2018, focusing now on spreading cryptocurrency miners (coinminers) and information-stealing trojans (infostealers). These are the main conclusions of months of observation by Palo Alto Network security researcher Brad Duncan. Exploit kit market continues to fall Duncan, one...
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Some of the most influential voices in the PHP community have united on a project to improve the security of the PHP ecosystem. Under the name of FriendsOfPHP, this group has created a database that includes references and details for known security vulnerabilities affecting various PHP projects and libraries. The purpose of this database is to provide a giant guide of what versions of what...
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The Equifax breach was well over half a year ago now, but I’ve had a nagging worry all the while since then: Was my child’s data affected in that breach, and how could I possibly find out for sure? After the Equifax breach, a number of people who had never even heard of the credit monitoring bureau (including people living outside of the U.S.) found...
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Small Business is a privileged target of attackers, in fact, there is a high risk of having problems with hackers if you are a large company or even a media player. Do you have a small company? If the answer is yes, and you think that no cyber attack will ever affect you, think again. Small Business is a privileged target of attackers, in fact,...
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Training employees to spot phishing emails, messages and phone calls can’t be done just once or once a year if the organization wants to see click rates decrease. For one thing, employees come and go (and change roles) with regularity. Secondly, threats change over time. Thirdly, knowledge and practices that aren’t regularly reinforced will be lost. And, finally, awareness isn’t the same as knowledge. “Just...
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