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DBIR 2015: What Do Prince and Vulnerabilities Have In Common?

The Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report has always had a conversational, quirky style to share some pretty technical information about the security breach data it analyzes. So if you’re wondering what Prince has to do with vulnerability management, just know that when you read the full report, you’ll understand – a lot of song titles are...
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How to Lie with Statistics: Information Security Edition

Numbers, statistics, pie charts and survey results are everywhere – especially in the information security space. Nevertheless, have you ever finished reading a vendor whitepaper or a research institution’s annual security report and the data presented just made your spidey sense tingle? You are probably sensing a manipulation of statistics, an age...
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Testing Network Forensics Skills: Challenge Accepted!

Network Forensics is a branch of Digital Forensics that deals with the capture, storage and analysis of network traffic. Incident handlers working on computer incident response and security operations teams around the world engage in this type of analysis in order to answer the “Five Ws” in relation to incidents: [W]ho did it? [W]hat happened? ...
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Computer Espionage Gang Targets Rival APT Group with Spear Phishing Attack

A computer espionage gang has sent a rival advanced persistent threat (APT) group a spear phishing email in what might be the first reported instance of an APT-on-APT attack. In February of last year, Naikon, one of the most active APT groups in the Asian region, launched a spear phishing email campaign. Another APT group, Hellsing, was one of its...
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VERT Alert: April 2015 Patch Tuesday Analysis

Today’s VERT Alert addresses 11 new Microsoft Security Bulletins. VERT is actively working on coverage for these bulletins in order to meet our 24-hour SLA and expects to ship ASPL-610 on Wednesday, April 15th. MS15-032 Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer MULTIPLE Internet Explorer ASLR Bypass...
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People Are The Problem (And Solution)

Reading through the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (aka DBIR), the amount of information about last year's breaches is daunting. Let's look at one category of the report—Phishing. Teach a man to phish? Why did I focus on phishing? Because it is on the mind of a lot of CISOs these days. As we know, quite a few high-profile breaches have...
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Takeaways From the 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), published since 2008, has become one of the most anticipated information security industry reports. Think of it as the Data Breach Bible, as it dissects thousands of confirmed data breaches and security incidents from around the globe into emergent and shifting trends, providing us with...
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Remember Who the Adversary Really Is

There has been a dramatic increase in the attention paid to the information security field due, in part, to a number of high-profile breaches. There is a much higher level of concern over what information security means, what it provides and how to approach it. The field has graduated from fringe awareness to bad mainstream TV dramas. This growth...
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Computer Criminals Brought to Justice – Timothy Lance Lai

Last week, Tripwire explored the story of Lance Ealy, a computer criminal who filed more than 150 fake tax refund requests, some of which he completed via the use of stolen Social Security numbers, back in 2013. We now report on the story of Timothy Lance Lai, a former private tutor who was arrested in the fall of 2014 for having helped some of his...
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How Attackers Use Your Tools Against You: Living Off the LAN

Detecting and preventing malicious software from executing on critical systems has received a lot of attention in the information security industry lately. Being able to detect new applications, drivers and files is what Tripwire Enterprise excels at. However, there are quite a few options for a motivated attacker to take advantage of built in...
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French TV network taken off air after attack by pro-ISIS hackers

Pro-ISIS hackers have managed to take a French TV network off air, and hijack its website and Facebook page. 11 channels belonging to the French-language TV network, which broadcasts to more than 200 countries worldwide, stopped transmitting programmes after what was described as an "extremely powerful cyberattack". The TV network's director general...
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10 Steps to Improve Your Layered Defense Strategy

We have a problem in the security community – or maybe within the modern information age of humanity in general. That problem is we see security as a technology, policy, privacy or people issue, instead of an integrated combination thereof. However, despite standards, laws, best practices, lessons learned and new technology we continue to practice...