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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. Again, a raid as harmful as that commences with what appears to be garden-variety deceptive advertising trickery.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Internet As A Pen Test

ForAllSecure

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together. We do the same thing for firewalls. That's an example of AI.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Welcome to the Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllSecure.

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The Hacker Mind: Shellshock

ForAllSecure

How could open source software be vulnerable for so long? That meant I tested the release candidates -- not the final product you’d buy in the stores - for consumer-grade antivirus programs, desktop firewalls, and desktop Intrusion detection systems. Welcome to the Hacker Mind, an original podcast from ForAllSecure.

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A Roundup of WordPress Security Issues

SecureWorld News

Plus, it is readily available to anyone on an open-source basis. An endpoint web application firewall (WAF) can closely monitor incoming traffic and works wonders in forestalling zero-day incursions. Unsurprisingly, this CMS is used by 43% of all sites in existence. This immense popularity is a double-edged sword, though.