High-profile data breaches in recent years have created a new and rapidly emerging high-risk reality that businesses must be made aware of, and which can no longer be ignored. This high-risk reality is the creation and accessibility of huge data lakes containing billions of leaked credentials for sale on the dark web that provide exact […]
December 26th, 2004. A powerful but mostly silent earthquake took place off the coast of northern Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. While beach goers on the eastern coast of India noticed the strange phenomena of the sea receding a few hundred yards, no one put “two and two” together based on this scant evidence. The […]
April 7th – today. That’s the deadline that looms like a dark cloud over Apple and its customers based on the claims of a group calling themselves The Turkish Crime Family. The group claimed publicly a couple of weeks ago they have hacked Apple’s iCloud and have threatened they will erase hundreds of millions of […]
Every year it seems, the breaches are more frequent and so much bigger. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of attacks, over previous years, that exploited leaked credentials. Being just past the year’s end, we at VeriClouds have decided that now is the time to recap the most notable breaches. In this […]
VeriClouds recently polled a field of Cyber Security professionals to get their opinions on the predominate threat trends in 2017. Our experts are CEO’s, CISOs, Engineers, Security Architects and Consultants working in universities, private consulting firms and corporations. Cyber Security 2017 Summary All responses, including those persons wishing to remain anonymous, were considered in writing […]
This post is related to the 12/28/16 Ars Technica article – Did my account actually get hacked? Hard to tell, even after Netflix’s “heads up”. The author of the above article describes his experience receiving an email alert from Netflix warning about a potential compromise of his Netflix credentials. Not to spoil a good read, […]
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) are key Information Security (InfoSec) motivators and common sales techniques used today by many of the security solutions providers. The FUD Technique Using FUD as a technique to sell security services is simply diverting the customer’s attention away from the qualities and value of the service and focusing their attention […]
“The revelation of Yahoo’s latest hack underscores what many Americans have known for years: All those emails, photos and other personal files stored online can easily be stolen, and there’s little anyone can do about it.” The only saving grace is that the attackers apparently did not exploit the information for fraud. But their true […]
There are many types of attacks that could be used against your organization. Social Engineering is an attack vector that may include a variety of exploit strategies. In this post we will examine two common Social Engineering attacks that utilize a spear phishing strategy. Spear phishing against organizations is known to succeed against the most […]
Do you like to fix things yourself? Handy with tools at home or work? Maybe even tech-savvy and smart with online security tools? Every company, even those who do not have an IT department, have someone who is the go-to person for IT issues. In this post we explain why companies should not try to […]
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