Users of popular Internet sites such as Amazon, Twitter, and Spotify experienced significant delays getting to those sites Friday, October 21, 2016. The problem was caused by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attack against…
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCASM). NCASM is a time set aside by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to help raise awareness of the growing and persistent threat posed by cyber breaches…
Yahoo has announced that 500 million of its customer accounts have been compromised. The hacker, who investigators suspect was state-sponsored, made away with usernames, hashed passwords, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, and other private…
A group known as New World Hacking launched a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against the BBC and Donald Trump’s campaign website this week. The Trump site was down for about an hour, while…
I wrote earlier this week about the possibility that a power outage in the Ukraine on December 23 had been caused by malware. It turns out that the outage was indeed caused by a cyber…
Microsoft’s operating systems offer two kinds of encryption: device encryption, which encrypts an entire disk, and Bitlocker, which offers the user a chance to configure how the encryption should be done and where it should…
A new piece of malware that encrypts a victim’s files until the victim pays a ransom to decrypt them has surfaced. This new threat is called Ransom32, and it was written in Javascript, a cross-platform language…
A power outage in the Ukraine appears to have been caused by a cyber attack. Security researchers are currently investigating the incident, which occurred in the eastern part of the country on December 23. It is…
Authentication is an essential component of protecting critical resources. It comes in two forms. Data-origin authentication aims to assert that data has arrived intact from its expected source. Peer-entity authentication seeks to assert that the…
A recent report from app security firm Veracode shows that some programming languages that are used to create software for the web are much less secure than others, The report, entitled “State of Software Security:…