George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security (CCHS), a “think and do” tank responsible for carrying out research and analysis on homeland security, counter-terrorism, and cybersecurity issues, has recently released a new, 86-page report [PDF] entitled, “Into the Gray Zone: The Private Sector and Active Defense against Cyber Threats.” The authors behind the […]
While the internet itself was first envisioned as a way of enabling robust, fault-tolerant communication, the global routing infrastructure that underlies it is relatively fragile. A simple error like the misconfiguration of routing information in one of the 7,000 to 10,000 networks central to global routing can lead to a widespread outage, and deliberate actions, […]
Ransomware just got even more real: it’s now the number one attack vector in the financial services sector which traditionally has been considered a model industry for best security practices. Some 55% of financial services firms recently surveyed by SANS report ransomware as the top attack threat, followed by phishing (50%), which previously held the […]
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