A lot of hard work needs to go into effectively implementing an intelligence-driven security model. It starts with five critical factors. Many organizations want to build a threat intelligence team but don’t really know where to start, let alone answer the question, what exactly is threat intelligence? The definition has been clouded by the industry […]
In the previous two chapters of this series, we talked about how a hacker can conduct attacks with SQL injection and OS command injection. These software weaknesses are in the top two positions in the SANS Top 25. Now we move on to the programming flaw at No. 3: buffer overflow. Buffer overflow is caused […]
The threat of an attack on the nation’s power grid is all too real for the network security professionals who labor every day to keep the country safe. While cyber-security experts and industry executives describe such warnings as alarmist, intelligence officials say people underestimate how destructive a power outage can be.
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