Vice President, Cloud Research
If you’ve ever bought anything online, checked your bank accounts through the app, or logged on to your favorite social media network, you’ve used a technology called SSL/TLS. The S in HTTPS. SSL/TLS (just to keep it simple, I’ll refer to as SSL) is the technology used to encrypt the communication between your browser and…
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Cybercrime is a business. Professional criminals refine their processes, measure performance, and regularly evaluate the return on their investments. Every move is strategic. We see this time and time again with ransomware campaigns and throughout the underground. Which is why the latest report from Joseph Cox at Motherboard is mind boggling. Joseph brings us the…
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Social media is a tough place for companies. That’s understandable. The idea of connecting people to each other breaks down when one of those people is a major multi-national brand. But there is a place on social for companies and when it’s handled well, it’s amazing. Unfortunately, as much as positive examples show personality and…
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Google’s Next 2017 conference kicks off today with a series of bootcamps. The regular program starts on Wednesday and runs through Friday, highlighting the latest offerings in the Google Cloud. This is the third iteration of the conference and as with the Google Cloud itself, the show is going to be bigger and better than…
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The SHA-1 hash function is broken. This isn’t news. What is news is that a practical attack has been demonstrated Keep in mind that “practical” is used in cryptographers terms and those terms don’t necessarily have an impact on your daily IT use. The news has been making the rounds as IT teams, journalists, and…
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Our researchers produce a lot of really interesting material. This week, they published a paper called, “U.S. Cities Exposed In Shodan.” The research looks systems that are exposed online…exposure that systems owners aren’t always aware of. The most disturbed statistic in the research is a simple one: the fourth most exposed system is MySQL. I had…
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One of the key benefits of the cloud is focus. Spinning up a virtual server in the cloud lets you focus on the operations and security of the operating system, you applications, and your data. Similarly migrating to a SaaS productivity suite lets you focus on your data and getting work done. This is the…
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I recently posted about why ransomware is such a money maker for criminals. Read it through and I think you’ll understand why this is an area of massive growth for criminals. Ransomware is one of the fastest rising attacks currently out there with no end to that growth in sight. Criminals are making a lot…
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I used to love sitting on the floor and watching Saturday morning cartoons. One of my favorite gags was when a character got really, really hungry. In order to emphasize the point, everything and everyone around them turned to food. The newspaper stand owner became a large hand. The baby in a stroller was suddenly…
Read More Our recent #trendsider twitter chat focused on ransomware. If you haven’t heard about ransomware yet, the odds are good that you will soon. This is major growth area for cybercriminals. Ransomware variants continue to pop up, each a bit more vicious than the last. Security tools continue to block and prevent ransomware, criminals continue to…
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