by dianak | Jun 4, 2020 | Security
This morning I noticed an article from Infosecurity Magazine that referenced a study from CyberArk. The article is here so you can see it in context, but check this out: Employee work from home habits are putting businesses at a higher risk of cyber-attacks, according...
by dianak | May 28, 2020 | Security
I saw an article this morning over on ZDNet about how 2020 will be the year of Linux on the Windows desktop. The contention is that, since WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) now supports a legit GUI out of the box, that people will start using it for all kinds of...
by dianak | May 27, 2020 | Security
So I came across this article today over on DarkReading. It’s a “how to” guide that describes in detail for security practitioners how to pay the ransom associated with a ransomware attack. Now before getting into this, I should probably tell you: 1)...
by dianak | May 22, 2020 | Security
I know this isn’t security related, but I figured I’d pass it along since I read this morning that the whole open source movement (or at least large swaths of it) are in financial trouble as an unintended consequence of COVID-19. I had meant to write up...
by dianak | May 21, 2020 | Security
This image by Joschi71 is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 I hate people who “armchair quarterback.” I also think there’s an unfortunate tendency for people to “pile on” when a company is breached and generally wax pedantic about the one critical...
by dianak | Oct 3, 2019 | Security
You are NOT prepared! So this article was in my feed today telling me that 49% of infosec professionals aren’t able to get enough sleep because they’re up at night worrying about security issues. I’d argue it’s maybe that plus caffeine…...
