cybercrime Tag

law firm cyber attacks

13 Apr Law Firms – Next Wave of Cyber Attacks?

The recent data breach of the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, or the so called “Panama Papers” leak, has captured a lot of headlines lately. The 11.5 million records, emails, databases, and images that were stolen apparently contained very damaging data on a number of high profile politicians and public figures. Last week, we also saw two other law firms disclose...

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hacked underground

07 Apr Hacked corporate email accounts dirt cheap in the underground

Want to dig up some dirt on a competitor? There's an underground service available where hackers-for-hire can get that corporate email account hacked (dirt cheap) for $500 USD. In a recently released report, Dell SecureWorks research uncovered a highly popular underground cybercrime forum offering corporate email account hacking services for hire. The report noted that Russian cybercriminals jacked up their work hours to 24/7; offered customers...

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cybersecurity tools

30 Mar Good Tools Help Shortage of Cybersecurity Professionals

2015 has earned the dubious distinction of being the worst year ever for cybercrime, with nearly 1,000 major data breaches. Attacks included the theft of 21.5 million records from the federal government's OPM (Office of Personnel Management) and T-Mobile’s 15 million record data breach that exposed the names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of many of the company’s customers. To add...

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breach

28 Mar Another breach — If It Can Happen to Verizon, It Can Happen To Anyone

Every year I anticipate the release of Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report. I’ve read it religiously for years. As a company that specializes in data breach security and helps countless organizations respond to and investigate security breaches, it’s ironic to say the least that Verizon just experienced a massive data breach of their own. Verizon recently reported that an attacker...

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data manipulation

22 Mar Data Manipulation – Worse Than Theft

Over the years I’ve seen cybercrime evolve and take many different forms. From mere system access to much more egregious attacks like planting malware, stealing data, or denying service. All of these attacks can cause catastrophic damages, especially when data is stolen or compromised–potentially disrupting the lives of countless individuals and jeopardizing the very existence of the business. But there is yet...

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SWIFT bank heist FE

15 Mar Bank heist steals SWIFT credentials

In a recent interview with Bangladesh Bank spokesman, Subhankar Saha, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that about $100 million was taken out of its account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York early in February using an interbank messaging system known as SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications). It appears that the hackers stole Bangladesh Bank’s credentials for the SWIFT messaging system, which...

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Guy Eisenkot Fortscale 2.5 release

09 Mar Fortscale 2.5 – Cisco Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid)

Today, we continue our discussion with Guy Eisenkot, Product Manager at Fortscale, regarding new features in Fortscale’s 2.5 release. Bill: “So Guy, what other new features are you particularly excited about in this new release?” Guy: “The second feature I want to talk about is support for Cisco’s pxGrid. For those of you who are not familiar with it, pxGrid is an...

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Fortscale Partners with FireEye's Cyber Security Coalition CSC

01 Mar Out-of-the-Box UEBA for Protection of Additional Systems

As I’ve evaluated various User/Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) solutions that are available today, I’ve concluded that nearly all of them can evaluate SIEM data and logs from common, everyday access controls systems in order to find basic user anomalies. But I, like most security analysts, am more concerned about detecting suspicious behavior and cybercrime activity in my databases and specific...

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