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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

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WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

Krebs on Security

In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to WeLeakInfo let someone plunder and publish account data on 24,000 customers who paid to access the service with a credit card. 24, 2016 with the domain registrar Dynadot. A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo[.]com

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MY TAKE: Why DDoS weapons will proliferate with the expansion of IoT and the coming of 5G

The Last Watchdog

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. Three years later, October 2016, a DDoS attack, dubbed Mirai, topped 600 gigabytes per second while taking aim at the website of cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs.

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MY TAKE: Poorly protected local government networks cast shadow on midterm elections

The Last Watchdog

EventTracker has a bird’s eye view; its unified security information and event management (SIEM) platform includes – behavior analytics, threat detection and response, honeynet deception, intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment – all of which are coupled with their SOC for a co-managed solution.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

There is a gaping shortage of analysts talented enough to make sense of the rising tide of data logs inundating their SIEM (security information and event management) systems. Demisto launched in May 2016. But this hasn’t done the trick. Smart money. Enter SOAR, the acronym for “security operations, analytics and reporting.”

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Of those organizations, 57 percent have been breached in the last year – a number that is three times the rate of just two years ago (in our 2016 report, 18 percent reported a breach within the last year, and in our 2017 report, 34 percent reported a breach within the last year).