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What is a HACK?

28 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury

There can be several meanings of the keyword hack. The meanings of the hack are not interrelated; rather, they are disjoint. Video In the old days, cabs used to be called hackney cabs, which is how cab drivers in London are sometimes called ha...

Historical Hacks: RockYou

4 Mar 2024 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

This data breach exposed millions of credentials and caused chaos. We’ve talked a lot in previous pieces about how at certain points in the evolution of cyber and information security things were often a lot simpler in the early days. But like anythi...

Best Practices in Securing 3rd Party Supply-Chain with Cassie Crossley

27 Feb 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist

The Cybersecurity Vault episode 28 Securing the software supply chain, including 3rd party vendors and suppliers, is a difficult problem that the cybersecurity industry is trying to tackle. The threats and risks are growing, which can have catast...

Keynote: Critical Infrastructures Are Under Attack From Aggressive Nation States

19 Feb 2024 1 minute read 19 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Critical Infrastructures are under attack from aggressive nation states! Governments must step forward to help protect these crucial sectors and the services they provide to citizens. My cybersecurity keynote from the InCyber North American conferen...

Just In: Ripple Got Hacked For $112.5 Million Worth Of XRP? Co-founder And Exec. Chairman Chris Larsen Clarifies

31 Jan 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Coins Reporter

In an unexpected turn of events for Ripple and its co-founder Chris Larsen, news of a hack of XRP worth 112.5 million dollars is circulating on Maxi Media. A few hours ago, self-proclaimed crypto-spy ZachBXT claimed for the first time that a hacking...

Historical Hacks: NotPetya (2017)

22 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

State-sponsored ransomware has gotten far worse over the years. As we’ve explored notable cybersecurity hacks, we’ve looked at everything from worms made for research purposes to the application of Zero Day hacks by government hackers. In today’s art...

The Unseen Threats: Anticipating Cybersecurity Risks in 2024

19 Jan 2024 2 minute read 2 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Nation-state attacks will be the dominant influence on the capabilities, growth, and impacts seen across the cybersecurity industry in 2024. Years of investment, innovation, and willingness to conduct advanced attacks by nation-states like Russia, C...

The Rogue Scholar

29 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 13 Part 4"I'm not sure I am, Felicia. Six hours really isn't all that long to solve something like this.""Well, it is going to have to be long enough," said Felicia."You must be really sacred I'm going to break your code," replied Sal."Hmmph....

The Rogue Scholar

27 Dec 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 13 Part 2 Felicia and Telray were not interested in spam, however. What they were planning to do with the technology Sal could only guess, but he knew the implications.Sal wasn't now dead because Telray had hired him to be a guinea pig. Telra...

Hackers For Hire: Exploring Bug Bounty Programs

26 Dec 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Bug Bounty programs can be a great way to test your skills without breaking the law. The Background: We started our writing journey by wanting to make technology less technical, providing tutorials, resources and breakdowns that were easy to understa...