Cyber

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! — AFRICA EDITION Africa is losing $4 billion annually to cybercrime. Can conversations at Cyber Africa Forum help? (Tech Cabal, May 6th) Growing Intra-Africa Trade through Digital Transformation of Customs and Borders (Modern Diplomacy, May 25th) INTERPOL nabs the head of a transnational cyber crime syndicate in Nigeria (Teiss, May 28th) …

How Facebook infrastructure can be used to perform DDoS. As a penetration tester, examining proprietary applications and repeatedly finding the same technical issues, can become a tad mind-numbing at the best of times. This is why I absolutely love security bug bounties — they always seem to challenge my inner-hacker, make me dig deeper, and find vulnerabilities in features…

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! — Interpol Arrests Leader of SilverTerrier Cybercrime Gang Behind BEC Attacks (The Hacker News, May 25th) BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware asks $5 million to unlock Austrian state (Bleeping Computer, May 27th) Department of Energy Presents Public Roadmap for Boosting Cybersecurity in Manufacturing Industry (Executive Government, May 27th) FBI warns of hackers selling credentials…

InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information! — CISA and DoD Release 5G Security Evaluation Process Investigation Study (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, May 26th) Broadcom To Acquire Vmware In $61 Bln Cash And Stock Deal — Quick Facts (NASDAQ, May 26th) Cowbell launches cyber risk heatmap (Insurance Business, May 26th) See also Cowbell Security. New Jersey Town’s…

Background For critical SaaS applications like Office 365, Github and Salesforce, the most glaring vulnerability is a lack of visibility of identity and access. In an on-premise system, monitoring all possible identities and points of access was already a challenge. With SaaS applications, this challenge increases in scale exponentially. SaaS…

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the most important days of the holiday shopping season. To prevent any unexpected surprises during the biggest shopping season of the year, retailers need to understand how their website and mobile applications will respond to a major and sudden surge of traffic. …

Definition of this term is Address Resolution Protocol. We use this network protocol to translate IP addresses to MAC addresses. In this way, We find out which mac address an IP address belongs to. Let’s look at how ARP works. I am using Linux and Windows on a virtual machine…

IT organizations throughout the U.S. Federal Government are constantly working to defend against cyber attacks, nation state actors, criminals, and have to do that while modernizing their network infrastructure and applications. The process to become certified to provide these requires an Authority to Operate (ATO). …