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May Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

As many of you know, most firewalls today come with a default rule set permitting all outbound traffic to flow freely. You put the firewall in place, and traffic flows outbound unimpeded. When command and control (CNC) malware is installed it needs to phone home. They are priceless! The necessity of outbound traffic filtering.

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May Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

As many of you know, most firewalls today come with a default rule set permitting all outbound traffic to flow freely. You put the firewall in place, and traffic flows outbound unimpeded. When command and control (CNC) malware is installed it needs to phone home. They are priceless! The necessity of outbound traffic filtering.

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May Intro | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

As many of you know, most firewalls today come with a default rule set permitting all outbound traffic to flow freely. You put the firewall in place, and traffic flows outbound unimpeded. When command and control (CNC) malware is installed it needs to phone home. They are priceless! The necessity of outbound traffic filtering.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

CTOvision

Before entering the land of Big Data, Alex spent the better part of ten years wrangling Linux server farms and writing Perl as a contractor to the Department of Defense and Department of Justice. Steve was previously CTO of Sanctum, a pioneer in Web application security testing and firewall software. He likes shiny objects.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

CTOvision

Before entering the land of Big Data, Alex spent the better part of ten years wrangling Linux server farms and writing Perl as a contractor to the Department of Defense and Department of Justice. Steve was previously CTO of Sanctum, a pioneer in Web application security testing and firewall software. He likes shiny objects.

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EP 49: LoL

ForAllSecure

So I started thinking about other ways to hide messages or even how to get malware onto a system without it being detected. Vamosi: Living off the land or fireless malware is a threat actor leveraging the utilities readily available on a system. I have all the abilities built into Windows or built into Linux or Mac to do this for me.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know. Come sit next to me.