Elie

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Over the last two years, the number of encrypted emails received by Gmail has almost doubled, as I reported earlier on the Google security blog. This very encouraging trend is sadly accompanied with an increase of SMTP TLS downgrade attacks, which prevent encryption of emails in transit as discussed in our research paper on the state of email transport security.

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Digital Shadows

DECEMBER 11, 2015

An actor identifying itself as “Hacker Buba” recently claimed to have breached Invest Bank and posted purported customer and client. The post ‘Hacker Buba’: Failed extortion, what next? first appeared on Digital Shadows.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 9, 2015

According to recent research over 60 percent of survey participants stated their executives are only “somewhat” or “not at all” informed about the information security risk and threats their organizations face. In commenting on the results, I stated this lack of awareness is “astounding.” In an age where data breaches crowd the daily headlines, lack of awareness is no longer an excuse for executives.

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Digital Shadows

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In my previous blog in this series I discussed the challenge of effectively communicating intelligence, and provided examples of how. The post Communicating Intelligence: The Challenge of Consumption first appeared on Digital Shadows.

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Digital Shadows

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In my previous blog I discussed some of the challenges associated with communicating intelligence. In this follow up piece, I’ll. The post Communicating Intelligence: Getting the message out first appeared on Digital Shadows.

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