Sean Michael Kerner

Social media is widely used by individuals and enterprises today and is often also unfortunately widely used by cyber-attackers. How can organizations protect their social media assets? That’s a challenge that multiple vendors are now tackling, including ZeroFox. Back In 2013, Evan Blair helped to start social media security vendor ZeroFox and has seen continued demand […]

According to security firm Proofpoint, email fraud attacks in the fourth quarter of 2017 were pervasive, with 88.8 percent of organizations targeted by at least one attack. Proofpoint detailed the findings in its Email Fraud Threat Report, which it released on Feb. 12. As part of the report, Proofpoint analyzed more than 160 billion emails, […]

Cyber-Attackers Continue to Be Financially Motivated, Report Finds The end of the year is a prime time for attackers to ramp up cyber-attacks, according to Positive Technologies’ Cybersecurity Threatscape Report for the fourth quarter of 2017. According to the 24-page report, Positive Technologies recorded more unique cyber-security incidents in the fourth quarter than at any […]

Sandeep Lahane has been been quietly building his container security startup Deepfence since 2016. On Feb. 13, Deepfence emerged from its stealth mode, announcing the company’s Security as a Microservice technology for container security. The Deepfence approach uses what the company refers to a a lightweight sidecar container, which runs alongside an organization’s existing Docker […]

18 years after the I Love You virus was emailed to millions of people around the globe, cyber-attackers are still using email to trick the lovelorn.  As Valentine’s Day approaches, there has been an uptick in the volume of botnet spam sending fake dating messages, according to research released Feb. 12, by IBM. IBM’s X-Force […]

The ongoing challenge of unauthorized crypto-currency mining has taken a new turn, with thousands of websites having been impacted by a third-party accessibility script. On Feb. 11, Texthelp reported that its Browsealoud text-to-speech extension was compromised during a cyber-attack. Browsealoud is widely deployed on sites around the world, particularly on government websites that use the […]

In any given week, there are typically multiple research reports and studies released by IT vendors that aim to provide interesting data points and insight into the latest trends.  The week of Feb. 5-9 there were at least six reports released, each with a different perspective on the changing face of both IT and cyber-security […]

Container and cloud-native data management startup Subtree emerged from stealth on Feb. 7, alongside a $10 million seed round of investment and two initial products that bring data control to Docker and Kubernetes container environments. Subtree is led by founder and CEO Luke Marsden, who had previously created the open-source Flocker container storage project and […]

Hackers Exploit Old Software, Trusted Websites, Menlo Security Reports Software often has a finite lifespan, with older applications no longer receiving security and bug fix updates. However, that doesn’t mean such applications are not still in use. According to the Menlo Security 2017 State of the Web report, Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, which […]

The long arm of U.S. justice has once again reached out around the world to identify those responsible for cybercrime. On Feb. 7, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a federal indictment charging 36 individuals with participating in a global cybercrime effort known as the Infraud Organization. Of the 36 individuals who were indicted, 13 […]

Unauthorized crytocurrency mining attacks, sometimes referred to as “cryptojacking” have found a new target – operational technology used in critical industrial infrastructure. Security firm Radiflow, discovered that cryptocurrency mining malware was found in the network of a water utility provider in Europe. The attack is the first public discovery of an unauthorized cryptocurrency miner impacting […]

Uber Chief Information Security Officer John Flynn (pictured) appeared before a U.S. Senate committee on Feb. 6 to explain how a bug bounty was used to help cover up the company’s 2016 data breach. Flynn appeared alongside the CEOs of HackerOne and Luta Security. In November 2017, Uber publicly admitted that it was victim of a […]