January 14, 2019
It’s 2019, and the cybersecurity landscape is more volatile than ever. Data breaches are increasing in number and size as the battle for valuable customer records heats up. Cybersecurity professionals are having to rethink the way that they protect their organizations against attackers, using a combination of tools and techniques to shore up their defences. […]
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January 10, 2019
Our friends at Nuix put together an amazing Capture the Flag (CtF) contest at SecTor 2018. For those of you who attempted and succeeded, congratulations. There were numerous participants but only a select few made it to the finish line. For those who attempted but were unable to finish, or you didn’t know where to start, the […]
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November 20, 2018
Bruce Potter has had a more eclectic career than most in cybersecurity. He has run an Alaskan ISP on a shoestring and walked the halls of government contractors, where everything had to be signed in triplicate. In the meantime, he’s visited pretty much everywhere else in between. He also runs popular security conference ShmooCon when he […]
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November 13, 2018
Keren Elazari has spent her life researching and participating in hacker communities. The Israeli-born cybersecurity expert, a senior researcher at the Tel Aviv University Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, founded BSides Tel Aviv and is a strong advocate for those ethical hackers who break things to make them stronger. Her keynote address at SecTor 2018 focused […]
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November 4, 2018
If security was just a case of patching software and checking malware hashes, it would be easy. In reality, it’s difficult. Really, really difficult. Mark Nunnikhoven, vice president of cloud research at Trend Micro, spent his SecTor 2018 keynote talking about why and how we got here. We sat down with him to discuss his […]
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September 18, 2018
Not everyone can sit in a meeting with hard-headed senior officials at a major defence contractor and introduce themselves as Freaky Clown. But this guy can. When you’ve broken into thousands of military and government buildings, you get a certain level of self confidence. Freaky Clown, who calls himself FC for short, is a UK-based […]
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September 11, 2018
Sarah Friend and John (J) Maurelian are smart contract security gurus, at a time when most people still don’t really know what a smart contract is. The software experts, from Ethereum development studio Consensys, spend their time rooting out programming flaws that could cost blockchain users hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they’re ready to tell some […]
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August 31, 2018
When she moved from coding into security, Tanya Janca just couldn’t bring herself to leave software development alone. That’s a good thing for the rest of us. When she found cross-site scripting (XSS) problems cropping up in one developer’s code, she asked if it would be ok to come spend some time with him at […]
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August 21, 2018
Another day, another treasure trove left publicly available in the cloud by a hapless admin. This time, GoDaddy found the configuration details for its servers in full public view on an Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3) bucket. Security firm UpGuard discovered the data languishing online in June stored on the Amazon service, which enables customers […]
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August 1, 2018
Rising data breaches and increasing compliance concerns are increasing interest in insurance against cyberattacks, but taking out cyber-insurance policies can be complex and uncertain. How can companies make it easier? At the 2017 SecTor conference last November, we sat down with Dave Millier, founder and CEO of security services company Uzado, to talk about a […]
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July 20, 2018
Another day, another cryptocurrency hack. Earlier this month, cryptocurrency conversion platform Bancor lost $23.5m in cryptocurrency after hackers managed to compromise a wallet. Attackers stole $12.5m in Ether, $1m of Pundi X tokens, and $10m of Bancor Network Tokens (BNT), which are smart tokens used to convert other currencies. Bancor managed to freeze the BNT, […]
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