David Strom

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Akamai research finds more sophisticated phishing threats in hospitality industry

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

New research from Akamai Technologies Inc. shows the increasing level of sophistication that attackers will use on a series of phishing attacks targeting hospitality websites. The attacks began as early as June 2023 and focused on exploits of the Domain Name System …

Cisco issues new fixes for second IOS XE vulnerability

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Cisco Systems Inc. was busy last week shoring up the security of its IOS XE routers and switches as a vulnerability in their web user interface allowed remote attackers to gain control over some these systems, which could number around 40,000. The web …

FBI takes down 17 websites used in massive North Korean hiring scheme

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized 17 websites that it claims were used to recruit and hire thousands of phony information technology workers from North Korea. The seizure, announced Wednesday, is part of a continuing effort to grab monies collected by …

A new hackathon is helping to make elections more secure

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Most hackathons don’t take five years to schedule, but this one was for a good cause and worth the wait. Last month a group of hackers and vendors came together in a suburban Virginia office to try to improve the operations of …

How companies are scrambling to keep control of their private data from AI models

AI By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Ever since artificial intelligence and large language models became popular earlier this year, organizations have struggled to keep control over accidentally or deliberately exposing their data used as model inputs. They aren’t always succeeding. Two notable cases have splashed into the news …

GitGuardian debuts new way to manage software encryption keys and secrets

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

Managing various encryption keys and other secrets has always been painful for enterprise security managers. A new service from GitGuardian called Has My Secret Leaked attempts to bring some clarity in a market that is typically overlooked by many corporate application developers. …

It’s time to put an end to the NTLM network authentication protocol

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

An ancient network authentication protocol has received its first death notice. The protocol, which has roots going back to the first local area network days of the 1980s, is called Microsoft NTLM, which stands for New Technology LAN Manager. Microsoft Corp.’s Matthew …

The Hamas-Israeli war is also being fought in cyberspace

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The war between Hamas and Israel is also raging across the cybersecurity realm, with various malware exploits, disinformation campaigns and recruitment of citizen hackers seen on both sides of the conflict. It’s difficult to obtain independently verified information because of the dynamic situation, …

New Magecart malware concealment tactics, hiding inside web status page

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

The malware group behind Magecart continues to be on the cutting edge of hiding in plain sight. A report this week from Roman Lvovsky, an Israeli security researcher at Akamai Technology, demonstrates three obfuscation techniques that have been recently spotted by their …

Distributed denial-of-service attacks are growing bigger and more lethal

SECURITY By DAVID STROM3 YEARS AGO

A sad and scary new record was set this past week, with the latest and biggest distributed denial-of-service attack. The network security provider Cloudflare Inc. posted on its blog today that it had observed and repelled the attack in August. The previous volumetric …

David Strom

Latest from David Strom

Akamai research finds more sophisticated phishing threats in hospitality industry

Cisco issues new fixes for second IOS XE vulnerability

FBI takes down 17 websites used in massive North Korean hiring scheme

A new hackathon is helping to make elections more secure

How companies are scrambling to keep control of their private data from AI models

GitGuardian debuts new way to manage software encryption keys and secrets

It’s time to put an end to the NTLM network authentication protocol

The Hamas-Israeli war is also being fought in cyberspace

New Magecart malware concealment tactics, hiding inside web status page

Distributed denial-of-service attacks are growing bigger and more lethal

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