The Italian Connection: An analysis of exploit supply chains and digital quartermasters
Author: Ned Moran and Ben Koehl
Source: http://blog.shadowserver.org
Overview: On July 5, 2015 an unknown hacker publicly announced on Twitter that he had breached the internal network of Hacking Team – an Italian pentesting company known to purchase 0-day exploits and produce their own trojans. Read More
Securing your data with VeraCrypt
One of the best ways of keeping people out of your private accounts or preventing unauthorised local access to your personal information is by not letting them on your Desktop or Laptop in the first place, but how do you go about it? Well, it’s straightforward, you create a password! Is that it?, well ‘sort of’, is the response I usually get. Of particular interest is one of the most common misconceptions “I like to call it – False Sense of Security!”, that is, colleagues who usually boast their user profiles are impenetrable because they have ten+ (10+) character long passwords, but then again, what happens if passwords fail you? Ask me and I will tell you it’s simple! Securing your data
The Mystery of Duqu 2.0: A sophisticated Cyber Espionage actor returns
The Mystery of Duqu 2.0: A sophisticated Cyber Espionage actor returns
Author: Kaspersky Labs’ Global Research & Analysis Team
Source: https://www.securelist.com
Executive Summary: Earlier this year, during a security sweep, Kaspersky Lab detected a cyber intrusion
affecting several of its internal systems. Read More