The perfect environment for ATOs (account takeovers) to breed.

Network Detection and Response (NDR) (noun) [Word Notes]

NDR tools provide anomaly detection and potential attack prevention by collecting telemetry across the entire intrusion kill chain on transactions across the network, between servers, hosts, and cloud...

17 Marras 20206min

shadow IT (noun) {Word Notes]

Technology, software and hardware deployed without explicit organizational approval. In the early days of the computer era from the 1980s through the 2000s security and information system practitioner...

17 Marras 20204min

Ransomware: Statistically, it's likely to happen to anybody.

Joe has a story about how Emotet is being used in phishing emails through thread hijacking, Dave's story is a two-fer: one is about bad guys using image manipulation and the other has Elon Musk giving...

12 Marras 202036min

remote access Trojan or RAT (noun) [Word Notes}

From the intrusion kill chain model, a program that provides command and control services for an attack campaign. While the first ever deployed RAT is unknown, one early example is Back Orifice made f...

10 Marras 20204min

Too good to be true.

Dave has a story about a fake Facebook copyright violation scam trying to trick you out of your TFA to get into your account, Joe story about the largest elder fraud scam in US history, The Catch of t...

5 Marras 202036min

business email compromise or BEC (noun) [Word Notes]

A social engineering scam where fraudsters spoof an email message from a trusted company officer that directs a staff member to transfer funds to an account controlled by the criminal.

3 Marras 20203min

David Sanger on the HBO documentary based off his book, "The Perfect Weapon". [Special Edition]

On this Special Edition, our extended conversation with author and New York Times national security correspondent David E. Sanger. The Perfect Weapon explores the rise of cyber conflict as the primary...

1 Marras 202027min