Insider Threats on the 2022 Election
During the 2020 Presidential Election, national, state, and local election officials were worried about foreign interference in the American election system. Foreign interference, specifically from…
Ransomware-as-a-Service Growing Exponentially
In 2021, ransomware attacks worldwide almost doubled from the previous year, with North America facing around 53% of the attacks. While these ransomware attacks targeted…
Increasing Tensions in Cyberspace Can Affect Our Election Security
The use of social media by foreign influence voters is not a new trend. In 2016, bots created fake discussions about election topics to sway…
Supporting The Latest White House Memo On Cybersecurity
In case you haven’t heard, earlier this week, President Biden signed a National Security Memorandum (NSM-8), Improving the Cybersecurity of National Security, Department of Defense, and Intelligence…
The Log4J Vulnerability Will Haunt the Internet for Years
A vulnerability in the open source Apache logging library Log4j sent system administrators and security professionals scrambling over the weekend. Known as Log4Shell, the flaw is exposing…
Now is The Optimal Time For Orgs to Collaborate on Cybersecurity
Despite the new and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats emerging on a daily basis, most organizations still continue to rely on their own security teams to…
Federal Cyber Defenders Need Better Visibility Within U.S.
As adversaries from overseas continue to threaten the cybersecurity of U.S. companies and organizations, National Security Agency (NSA) director and U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) chief…
Retliften: How Microsoft Wound Up Certifying Malware
Summary In early June, a security researcher for G Data discovered malware within a driver software when the Netfilter driver was flagged by the company’s…