Macs are safer, but… We often hear that Mac users are less likely to be targeted by cybercriminals. This statement is true because of several reasons: Apple’s macOS system is Unix-based, which makes it more difficult to exploit. Hackers simply chose to attack more popular platforms. According to NetMarketShare, Windows accounts for over 88 percent…
Most of the recent cyber security breaches have been related to compromised privileged accounts in one way or another. This has resulted in privileged access management (PAM) becoming one of the most talked-about and researched areas of cyber security. We may safely say that in the coming months, every technology leader will be investing…
Introduction Have you heard of cybercrime as a Service? Australians have started the race to have 80% of the adult population fully vaccinated by the end of 2021. This is important because vaccination reduces the health, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, hackers don’t share the same morals as us. They see…
Generating self-signed public keypairs is a staple of many involved in DevOps, system admin, network administration and other roles. They are useful for testing encryption configuration and even providing some level of encryption security, mainly for internal organisational HTTPS connections. The most common case for self-signed certificates is for use with Web Servers, but…
“Home and office routers come under attack by China state hackers, France warns” – Ars Technica headline. This story was shared in my team’s Slack channel a few weeks ago and prompted a short conversation about how do we know it’s China? Are we just checking the IPs on the incoming messages? What if…
In this blog, we will show how Elastic Stack through machine learning, can help to quickly create detections to track users’ behaviors visiting a website. Background Due to increasing dependency on technology, organizations see themselves exposed to complex security threats more than ever. Therefore, cybersecurity defenses are undergoing massive changes in their methods and…
Not a day goes by without a cyber security incident reported in our news feed. Organisations are increasingly concerned about cyber security, and rightly so, as pressure mounts on business leaders to act and protect their organisations. Do nothing, and you are flying blind, unaware of what is happening in your organisation’s network .…
Well-known as a powerful search engine, Elasticsearch can help users collect and transform data in real-time. However, its capabilities of data analytics, especially machine learning, may not be widely known. As cyber criminals continually develop new ways to steal data from organisations, one of their preferred methods is phishing emails. The challenges of identifying and…
Over the last few decades, privacy and data security have become crucial to the reputation and success of organizations. The cyber threat landscape is continuously evolving, hackers are constantly looking for a new way to exploit businesses and individuals alike, cyber-attacks such as Ransomware, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service), and Phishing scams have wreaked havoc…
What You Don’t See Might Hurt You We now live in a time when data flows like water. Data streams of various sizes are multiplying at an astronomic rate. The transformative phenomenon of cloud computing makes this possible. However, as serene and peaceful as the view may appear from the outside, the vast amount of…