Month: August 2016

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Why cyber should not be limited to cyber Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is not new, and making sense of data from publicly available sources is as relevant for cyber…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Web Scanning Engine launched a web scanning engine with capabilities to find similar registered domain names, blacklist checker and link analysis tools for domains and threat intelligence data….

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Malware performs fraudulent actions on social media Known as the Linux/Moose, the malware primarily targets Linux-based consumer routers and infect other Linux-based embedded systems. Once infected, the compromised…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: 20% of IT professionals have witnessed a security breach cover-up Research conducted by AlienVault has shown that 20% of IT security professionals have witnessed a breach being hidden…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: All roads lead to the need to strengthen your security operations center? Don’t have a SOC? Only have one or two security professionals dedicated to the practice of…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: The Logjam Attack Diffie-Hellman key exchange is a popular cryptographic algorithm that allows Internet protocols to agree on a shared key and negotiate a secure connection. It is…