EP 34 - How to Catch a Malicious Insider w/ Eric O'Neill

Today’s episode of Trust Issues focuses on spycatching! Eric O’Neill, a former FBI counterintelligence operative and current national security strategist, joins host David Puner to discuss his legendary undercover mission to capture Robert Hanssen, one of the most notorious and damaging spies in U.S. history.

Securing Critical Infrastructures in Germany: Navigating KRITIS Regulation

Germany is widely acknowledged as one of the most technologically advanced nations. However, this prominence also implies a significant reliance on its critical infrastructures (KRITIS), which are essential to the smooth operation of the state and society. To safeguard these infrastructures, Germany has enacted new laws, IT Security Act 2.0 and KRITIS Regulation 2.0, that aim to improve the security of IT systems.

Kubelet vulnerabilities on Windows nodes: CVE-2023-3676, CVE-2023-3955 and CVE-2023-3893

Recently, the Kubernetes Security Response Committee disclosed three interrelated vulnerabilities affecting the Windows versions of Kubelet and the Kubernetes CSI proxy. These vulnerabilities pose a significant risk, allowing even users with limited permissions to escalate their privileges to administrator level on affected nodes.

Mobile threat defense or bust

Unified endpoint management (UEM) has played a significant role over the years in enabling companies to improve the productivity and security of their corporate mobile devices and applications. In the early days of endpoint management there were separate workflows and products as it pertains to traditional endpoints, such as desktops and laptops, versus mobile devices.

Phishing Campaigns Targeting Microsoft Login Credentials Jump an Unprecedented 6100%

Monitoring of traffic to phishing pages hosted on the free hosting service Cloudflare R2 show an unheard of spike of 6100%, many going undetected by many security solutions due to the evasive techniques used. I can’t remember a time when I’ve covered a story and the reported increases were as large as the recent spike in malicious network traffic observed by Netskope.

Operationalizing Advanced UEBA: Detection Scenarios and UCI Alerts

Netskope has recently released two exciting enhancements to our Advanced UEBA product. The enhancements are: Together, these two new features streamline operationalization of Advanced UEBA by providing operators alerts when it identifies users exhibiting risky behavior and an at-a-glance summary of the risky activity observed for each user.

Data Breaches Involving Social Engineering Attacks Take Longer to Identify and Contain

Continuing coverage of IBM’s recently-released Cost of a Data Breach report, we focus on the impact attacks involving social engineering have on data breach costs. There are two reports every year that we cover on this blog that you should be reading – Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report and IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach report. Each of these reports has been published for years, providing insight into how the state of data breaches are changing.