At the recent DEF CON cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, macOS security researcher Patrick Wardle did something that the responsible disclosure doctrine says is a bit naughty. He “dropped 0day” on …
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The ancient Chinese military strategy guide The Art of War says that if you want to have a chance of prevailing in battle, you need to know your enemy. It’s good advice for the battlefield, and it’s also good advice if you want to beat hackers in their constant attempts to take over your network.
But in order to know these hackers you need to understand their motivations, and in many cases those motivations may not be what you expect. That’s according to Dan Kaminski, the security expert who discovered a fundamental flaw in the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) protocol in 2008 and who discovered flaws in the widely used SSL protocol a year later. Kaminski is a frequent speaker at Black Hat Briefings, and now works as Chief Scientist at White Ops, a security firm specializing in detecting bot and malware fraud.
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Click happy users easily fooled in 2016
iTWire More than ever before, the ease of automating cyber-crime campaigns (off-the-shelf, 'commodity' tools), the use of machine learning to identiify victims, rent a botnet by the hour, and a money rich and robust underground cybercrime economy have driven … |
We all get emails we don’t want and cleaning them up can be as easy as clicking ‘unsubscribe’ at the bottom of the email. However, some of those handy little links can cause more trouble than they solve.
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