Day: August 17, 2018

Supplementing the SOC with Cyber-as-a-Service

Raytheon Cyber Protection Solutions CTO Mark Orlando suggests under-resourced SOCs enhance their effectiveness at-scale by tapping the advanced cyber defense automation his company has developed. …read more Source:: DarkReading


PUBG on mobile hits 100 million downloads as Fortnite rolls to Android – CNET

The original battle royale hit makes a milestone. …read more Source:: CNet


SuperProf Private Tutor Site Fails Password Test, Makes Accounts Super Easy To Hack

Superprof, which claims to be “the world’s largest tutoring network,” has made its newest members’ passwords utterly predictable… leaving them wide open to hackers. From a report: SuperProf is a website that helps you find a private tutor — either online via webcam, or face-to-face. The site claims to have over three million tutors on…


Exploring, Exploiting Active Directory Admin Flaws

Common methods AD administrators use to protect their environments can easily be exploited. Here’s how. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Assessing & Mitigating Increased Exposure to Third-Party Risk

As we increasingly connect with each other digitally, CyberGRX CRO Scott Schneider believes we need to be much more diligent about sharing validated insight into the infosec maturity of our organizations. …read more Source:: DarkReading


AT&T Faces $224M Legal Challenge Over SIM-Jacking Rings

Cryptocurrency angel investor Michael Terpin seeks damages for “gross negligence” by the carrier, alleging it turned a blind eye to store employees’ malicious activities. …read more Source:: Threatpost


This Company Embeds Microchips in Its Employees, and They Love It

Last August, 50 employees at Three Square Market got RFID chips in their hands. Now 80 have them. From a report: The idea came about in early 2017, president of Three Square Market Patrick McMullan says, when he was on a business trip to Sweden — a country where some people are getting subcutaneous microchips…


Chrome game invites you to yell ‘Enhance!’ at your computer screen – CNET

Zoom in. Zoom in. Enhance. Enhance! Now you’re Harrison Ford in Blade Runner. …read more Source:: CNet


Flight-Simulator Enthusiasts Confident of Real-World Skills

Two anonymous readers share a report: When the ground-services employee who stole a turboprop airliner last week declined air-traffic controllers’ piloting advice, saying he had played videogames, it was no surprise to some devotees of intricate home flight-simulation programs [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled; an alternative source wasn’t immediately available.]. Such software can…


Star Wars Resistance trailer shows Poe Dameron and a new spy – CNET

The anime-style show premieres Oct. 7 on Disney Channel. …read more Source:: CNet