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"However in practice, time constraints force cybersecurity professionals to develop a risk-based mindset and rely on institutionalized adversarial knowledge rather than a constant creative analysis."
Putting on a red hat and trying to understand the motivations, expectations, behaviors, and goals of bad actors can be a key part of a solid cybersecurity plan.
Good example of (human) threat analysis
On Slack and how it refuses to design for safety.
"Evil maid" scenario explained.
Although Apple and Google’s proposals for voluntary, anonymous contact tracing apps have been well received by some, they will likely serve as vehicles for abuse, disinformation, and a false sense …
EternalBlue, and how vuln hoarding went REALLY REALLY sour.
AI security expert Dawn Song warns that “adversarial machine learning” could be used to reverse-engineer systems—including those used in defense.
How "adversarial attacks" can mess with self-driving cars, medicine, and the military.
Lazarus Group, the threat actors likely behind the Sony breach and WannaCry outbreak, are in the news again. Here's what you need to know about this North Korean organization, and what you should do to protect against such nation-state attacks.
Meet the hackers who flip seized Instagram handles and cryptocurrency in a shady, buzzing underground market for stolen accounts and usernames. Their victims' weakness? Phone numbers.
IoT security risks include physical, network, software and encryption attacks that target the sensor, network and application layers of IoT systems.
"Identify the functions whose failure would jeopardize your business, isolate them from the internet to the greatest extent possible, reduce their reliance on digital technologies to an absolute minimum, and backstop their monitoring and control with analog devices and trusted human beings."
…and there he corrected many abuses and was the first to construct a wall, eighty miles in length, which was to separate the barbarians from the Romans.
We take a look at the difficulties faced by ransomware authors as they try to adapt and evolve to the next form of stealthier Bitcoin hoarding: cryptocurrency mining.