Phishing via employment-focused social media is on the rise. While performing incident response over the last few months, ProCircular encountered multiple incidents where LinkedIn was used in employee phishing attacks. Several news articles raised awareness of this phishing vector over the last year, and the trend continues with a new wave of attacks by sophisticated threat actors.
Topics: Incident Rsponse, hacking, risk
Ransomware Prevention: DEF CON 29 Takeaways
Topics: Information Security, Incident Rsponse, security incident handling, security incident response, DEF CON
Incident Response is a series of investigative and remedial steps that a company takes in the event of a breach or other security incident. These restoration efforts can include backtracking through log data, isolating affected machines, and even negotiating with cyberterrorists!
Topics: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Incident Response, security incident handling, security incident response