Think, Talk, Hack
“It provides very useful insights into how the threat landscape is evolving. It also demonstrates why proactive, robust information sharing is a critical element of mitigating cyber vulnerabilities in such a rapidly evolving threat...
Organizations becoming the victim of security breaches has become a well known fact. In the past month three high standing organisations: FriendFinder, NHS and Three, have all fallen victim to a data breach. The...
On the 20th of September Brian Krebs, an investigative journalist, took to Twitter. He reported that his website, ‘KrebsOnSecurity‘, had been hit by a record breaking DDOS attack. The website in question is a well known website in the...
Half way through 2012, Dropbox suffered a massive data breach which exposed the credentials of tens of millions of their customers. Earlier this month (August 2016) the company began forcing password resets to users suspected of still being...
In light of recent news from the Sage data breach Barry Scott, CTO of EMEA at Centrify, has commented: “Insider attacks and threats are often avoidable… so long as the right safeguards are in place....
The zero-day vulnerability discovered within Apple’s iOS has sparked up in the news recently. Guillaume Ross, Senior Security Consultant from Rapid7, has commented. Though Apple iOS enjoys a well-deserved reputation for being an operating...
News recently broke that more than 800,000 usernames and email addresses were taken from Unreal Engine and its maker, Epic Games. Deral Heiland, Research Lead at Rapid7, has commented. This breach is another reminder...
In light of Microsoft releasing their patches for the month of July, Adam Nowak, Rapid7 Active Lead Engineer, has commented: July continues an on-going trend with Microsoft’s products where the majority of bulletins address remote code execution (RCE) followed...
In light of the news that a hacker deposited 51 million file sharing accounts for sale on the dark web Tod Beardsley, Security Research Manager at Rapid7, has commented: The iMesh breach from 2013 contains the...
Recently Centrify, a leader in securing enterprise identities, released a study. It revealed that 75% of people in the UK would cancel their membership with an organisation if it was hacked. This suggests that a quarter would carry on using...
