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Phishing As An Attack Vector

May 22, 2016

Phishing as an Attack Vector Phishing attacks for: [clist id="1470698679813" post="35880"] Phishing is an older style of cyber-attack, but one that never fa

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Phishing tools and techniques: Tricks you may fall for

May 22, 2016

Here are some of the top phishing tools and phishing techniques fraudsters to use to trick employees and bypass your organization's security.

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Phishing Variations: Spy-Phishing

May 22, 2016

Related Phishing Variation Articles: Vishing SMiShing Spy-Phishing Pharming Watering Hole Attacks SPAM What is Spy-Phishing? Spy-phis

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What is Whaling?

May 22, 2016

With technology constantly advancing, life is getting simpler, with people basically controlling their everyday lives through one or two mobile devices. We a

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Phishing Attacks on Individuals

May 21, 2016

Phishing Attacks on Individuals Industries Financial Phishing Government and Military Phishing Healthcare Phishing Retail Phishing Phishing Individuals [

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Phishing Attacks on the Retail Industry

May 13, 2016

Phishing Attacks in the Retail Industry Phishing Targets by Industry: Financial Phishing Government and Military Phishing Healthcare Phishing Retail Phishin

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Snort Lab: Activate / Dynamic Rules

May 5, 2016

We've already learned that using flowbits allows us to make Snort rules work as a group. In this lab, we are going to look at different, and a more narrowly

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Snort Lab: Rule Performance Analysis

April 21, 2016

There are various for analyzing Snort rules performance. In this lab, we are going to focus on the one that directly applies to rules: Rule Profiling. With t

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Encryption Everywhere?

April 20, 2016

This article discusses opportunistic encryption (OE) and ways to set up systems so that they will automatically encrypt whenever they can, rather than just w

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Snort Lab: Blinding IDS

April 19, 2016

IDSs and IPSs can be attacked by generating false positives. If you can generate enough false positives, you can potentially: Overwhelm the IDS console tool

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Snort Lab: Custom SCADA Protocol IDS Signatures

April 14, 2016

Hands-on lab: scan a Modbus/TCP PLC, explore insecure read/write access with ModScan32, then build & test custom Snort IDS signatures to detect unauthorized Modbus traffic, anomalous packets, and write attacks.

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Snort lab: Payload detection rules (PCRE)

April 12, 2016

Until now, when we used Snort to look for certain content within the payload, we've always looked for some specific values. What if we wanted to look for som

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