What Can We Learn from the Okta Breach?
The news recently broke: Okta was breached earlier this year and it potentially affected several hundred of their corporate customers. Though Okta is one of our competitors in the Identity…
Watch Out! Cybercriminals are Coming
As more coordinated cyberattacks and the sudden move to a remote workforce makes it imperative that security professionals expand their view of what needs to be protected. Cybercrime is a…
How to Catch a Phish Attack
This is the story of a day in the life of a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) investigator. It is 9:05 on a Tuesday morning. An employee has reported they…
Top 3 Mistakes that Lead to Data Breaches
Data breaches and the number of records exposed has steadily increased over the last six years. In the United States, the number of data breaches has doubled and the number of records…
Quiz: Can You Name These Common Cyberattacks?
Hackers are constantly trying new tactics to gain access to corporate data. Test yourself and see if you can name these seven common types of attacks. Then check your answers…
Bots, Zombies and DDoS Attacks, Oh My!
So the other day I was writing about botnets and the image that came to my mind was the sneaky little evil robot called Frenzy from Transformers because he acted…
Explosion in Remote Working Proving to be a Fertile Ground for Hackers – Here’s How to Stay Safe
Remote working survey of 2000 US and UK consumers shows that 34% of companies have reported a breach since the pandemic ushered in today’s remote work culture - Rising to…
Protect Your Systems from Brute Force Attacks
We have all seen the headlines about this company or that company getting hacked because of a Brute Force attack. You might even be able to give a pretty good…
How OneLogin maintained 100% uptime during the Dyn DDoS attack
On Friday, a DDoS attack on Dyn, a major provider of DNS services, made many websites unavailable, including Spotify, Twitter, Reddit, and The New York Times. Fortunately for our thousands of…
