Here’s how the blue team wards off red teamers and a few open-source tools it may leverage to identify chinks in the corporate armor. Do you ever play computer games such as Halo or Gears of War? If so, you’ve definitely noticed a game mode called Capture the Flag that pits two teams against each other – … More 6 open-source tools to assess and enhance corporate defenses
A threat actor leaked 200,000 records on a hacker forum, claiming they contained the mobile phone numbers, email addresses, and other personal information of Facebook Marketplace users. Bleeping Computer* verified some of the leaked data by matching the email addresses and phone numbers on random records within the sample data shared by IntelBroker, the threat … More 200,000 Facebook Marketplace user records leaked on hacking forum
Heavy workloads and the specter of personal liability for incidents take a toll on security leaders, so much so that many of them look for the exits. What does this mean for corporate cyber-defenses? Cybersecurity is finally becoming a board-level issue. That’s as it should be, given the increasingly important role cyber-risk management plays in strategic … More The buck stops here: Why the stakes are high for CISOs
As personal devices within corporate networks make for a potentially combustible mix, a cavalier approach to BYOD security won’t cut it. Since it helped organizations ride out the disruption wrought by the pandemic, remote work (that later often morphed into hybrid work) has cemented its staying power. With the boundaries between work and home becoming blurrier than ever, many … More Left to their own devices: Security for employees using personal devices for work
An AI chatbot inadvertently kindles a cybercrime boom, ransomware bandits plunder organizations without deploying ransomware, and a new botnet enslaves Android TV boxes. In this episode of the ESET Research Podcast, we dissect the most interesting findings of the ESET Threat Report H2 2023, including threat actors trying to leverage the AI hype, probably the … More ESET Research Podcast: ChatGPT, the MOVEit hack, and Pandora
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