The current state of malware is a conflicted one. On the one hand, data breaches involving malware have become less frequent in recent years. In its 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), Verizon found that malware had been active in 28 percent of data breaches...
Welcome back to a brand new year and another Lastline Threat Intelligence Briefing! We hope your new year was fantastic! This short briefing intends to give Lastline customers and other interested parties a regular recap of the most important news and events surrounding malware in...
We’re inclined to focus only on digital threats that emanate from outside the network. In so doing, however, we overlook a key risk: threats that come from within the network itself. I’ll use this blog post to discuss what these “insider threats” look like, what types...
When we think of a digital attack, I think many of us go straight to attack campaigns that involve exploiting application or operating system vulnerabilities. Not all attacks involve these, of course. There are plenty of attacks that solely leverage social engineering tactics to undermine...
It should be an axiom: we undermine our cyber security when we retreat into silos. That’s because bad actors profit off of us when we separate ourselves by technology, department, organization, or sector. Ultimately, siloing doesn’t give us a business advantage; it just robs us...
Any significantly sized organization needs two things if they are to be successful in building a security program. They first need a list of defined outcomes for their security program; in other words, what do they expect to accomplish as part of their security efforts?...
It’s the final week of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and as part of our ongoing theme of Secure IT, we thought we’d take a quick look at various ways attackers are able to impersonate others in order to convince you to fall prey to the...
It’s week two of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2019. We believe that it’s overarching strategy, Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT, is a great way to get closer to a comfortable security state. If you keep this in mind your security journey will be a more successful one. In...
Organizations are currently undergoing a security management dilemma in which the tools they’re using don’t adequately defend against today’s threats. Per Trend Micro, a 2015 TechZone and CryptZone study found overall that a majority of organizations (90 percent) were still using several 1990s technologies despite...
"Ever wonder how technology professionals manage to keep up with the ever-changing world of IT? It’s mind boggling really. Whatever the future brings, IT pros always find a way to make it work. Not a minute passes when organizations and end users don’t benefit from...
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