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- Major Carding Forum BriansClub Suffers Data Breach
A source shared the news with security researcher Brian Krebs, whose name and likeness have been used for years by the administrators of the online BriansClub store It is claimed that the trove includes credit and debit card details stolen from bricks-and-mortar retailers from the past four years, including eight million uploaded so far in 2019
- SSO and Beyond: Why Single Sign-On Solutions are Absolutely Essential . . .
The adoption of cloud-based services is gathering pace Indeed, a recent survey conducted by CDW found that 39% of organisations are “implementing or maintaining cloud solutions”, a figure that is up 28% on two years ago The growth in cloud computing is, however, giving rise to a proliferation of inadequate passwords that are weakening IT security and placing users, systems and data at
- Healthcare, US politics and David Bowie - Infosecurity Magazine
Healthcare, US politics and David Bowie I write my first editor’s comment in rather a sombre mood, as today is Monday 11 th January and I have woken up to the news of the death of David Bowie Rather than try and draw an analogy about the visionary musician reinventing music over a 50 year career, I’ll write this to a soundtrack of Ziggy Stardust So apologies for any puns in advance I
- Scattered Spider Uses Tech Vendor Impersonation to Target Helpdesks
Scattered Spider, the ransomware collective believed to be behind recent retail hacks in the UK, including those targeting Marks Spencer (M S) and Harrods, has evolved its arsenal to incorporate more sophisticated tactics In a new report published on June 5, ReliaQuest said, “what started as a
- Profile Interview: Ken Munro - Infosecurity Magazine
Ken Munro has spent the last 20+ years making a name for himself in security, picking holes in Internet of Things (IoT) and smart devices to unearth security flaws in them, before going down the right and proper channels to make those flaws known to promote better security design and practice Why, you may ask? We live in a world where the IoT is a real part of everyday life So much so in
- The what, how and why of Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
In the world of identity and access management, Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is gradually becoming a frequently used term Dictated in part by legislative and regulatory norms, an increasing number of organizations wish to manage and assign all access privileges across the network in a structured way This is possible through the use of RBAC software So how can companies achieve an
- SCADA Security Inertia - Infosecurity Magazine
Threats to aging supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, which monitor and control key industrial processes in critical infrastructure, have been growing in recent years The latest threat comes from the Flame malware that has been infecting SCADA systems for years – undetected
- The art of social engineering - Infosecurity Magazine
The social engineering aspect of drive-by downloading includes persuading people to visit a particular site that hackers have ‘poisoned’ They have compromised the web page with their own malware that infects the computer, via the browser, of any visitor to the infected page This malware will then open a covert channel to the attacker who can subsequently install more sophisticated
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