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May 05 2019
Belgian coder Bernard Fabrot just finished a 3.5-year computational marathon, solving a fascinating cryptopuzzle set at MIT back in 1999.
Source: Belgian programmer solves cryptographic puzzle – 15 years too soon!
May 03 2019
May 01 2019
Maor Hizkiev, CTO and co-founder, BitDam, explains how and why government organisations are lagging behind in implementing standard email security measures and what needs to be done to improve the state of security in the public sector.
Apr 30 2019
Facebook is going to fund academic research on the impact of social media on elections, aimed at preventing manipulation of these platforms.
Source: Facebook funds research on the impact of social media on elections
Apr 29 2019
Tech support scammers are using iframes to lock web browsers and to trick people into calling their support hotlines posing as legitimate services to have their computers fixed after being presented with a “computer has been blocked” alert.
Source: Tech Support Scammers Freeze Browsers Using Iframes
The Browser Hacker’s Handbook
Apr 25 2019
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Apr 24 2019
Social Engineering Red Flags
We recommend EVERYONE to review the 22 social engineering red flags to watch out for in any email. It might be a good idea to print out this PDF and pass it along to family, friends, and coworkers. Remember to always think before you click!
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Apr 23 2019
Apr 23 2019
Source: Ten Must-Have CISO Skills – By Darren Death
CISO should have answers to these questions before meeting with the senior management.
Apr 21 2019
Stuxnet Malware Analysis By Amr Thabet
Apr 20 2019
Apr 19 2019
Introduction to Malware Analysis | SANS Lenny Zeltser
Five Awesome Tools to perform Behavioural Analysis of Malware
Apr 18 2019
What CISO does for a living by Louis Botha
It’s based on the CISO mindmap by Rafeeq Rehman, updated for 2018 and adding the less technical competencies
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Download of What CISO does for a living (pdf)
CISO MindMap 2018 – What Do InfoSec Professionals Really Do?
CISO should have answers to these questions before meeting with the senior management.
Apr 17 2019
A password alone will not protect sensitive information from hackers–two-factor authentication is also necessary. Here’s what security pros and users need to know about two-factor authentication.
Source: Two-factor authentication: A cheat sheet
Apr 16 2019
Law enforcement officials in the US have been routinely mining Google’s location history data for criminal investigations.
Source: Google’s location history data shared routinely with police
Apr 15 2019
Hackers and Microsoft seem to disagree on key details of the hack.
Source: Hackers could read non-corporate Outlook.com, Hotmail for six months
Apr 15 2019
A zero-day exploit found in Internet Explorer means hackers could steal files from Windows users. What’s particularly interesting about this security flaw is that you don’t even need to…
Apr 13 2019
You may be wondering what it takes to send this type of attack. This is not trivial, and can only be done by someone trained in advanced hacking techniques. We will first take a look at the steps required to send an attack, and then we’ll look at steps to mitigate this threat. For the (simplified) attack steps we am freely borrowing from a great blog post by Brandon McCann, a well-known pentester.
