Rick McElroy stories
Latest VMware threat report reveals truth about deepfakes
Wed, 10th Aug 2022
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virtualisation
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advanced persistent threat protection
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it automation
VMware's Global Incident Response Threat Report reveals increased cyber attacks amid pandemic disruptions and geopolitical events.
Majority of banks paid ransom for cyberattacks last year
Tue, 26th Apr 2022
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virtualisation
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it automation
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apac
VMware's most recent report finds 74% of businesses experienced one or more ransomware attacks in the last year, with 63% deciding to pay the ransom.
Hackers increasingly ‘island hopping’ – so what does it mean?
Tue, 14th May 2019
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cybersecurity
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hackers
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carbon black
Carbon Black's Rick McElroy discusses this new trend and what it means for the new age of cybercrime.
Cyber attackers using businesses to target nation states
Tue, 4th Sep 2018
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carbon black
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nation state attacks
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island hopping
64% of incident response professionals had experienced attackers launching secondary command and control after an initial attack was shut down.
How to make attackers’ lives harder with effective threat hunting
Thu, 30th Nov 2017
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siem
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soc
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carbon black
Sandboxing was big, but I believe that in two years sandboxing won’t be an effective control, because the bad guys understand it.
How Wi-Fi KRACK vulnerability can hit almost everyone with an endpoint
Wed, 25th Oct 2017
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internet
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carbon black
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krack
We can be sure that attackers will leverage that delta in patching. Communication and router security has been ignored for too long.
What we can learn from the Google Docs hack
Fri, 12th May 2017
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malware
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phishing
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email security
Remember, don’t be embarrassed about falling victim. The more we talk about how these things happen the better we will be.
Strategy for cyber crime: own the routers, own the Internet
Mon, 10th Apr 2017
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router
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carbon black
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security vulnerabilities
Mobile devices & smart TVs controlled by cyber criminals make scary headlines. There's something scarier – the possibility that routers can be owned.