What is r00tz Asylum?
At Black Hat 2019 I had the pleasure to meet some AT&T colleagues who are now my new InfoSec buddies! I met Marc Kolaks and Don Tripp from the Office of the CSO at the AT&T Cybersecurity booth. They told me about the weekend event they were volunteering for at Defcon. So, being nosy I had to…
SOAR with AT&T Cybersecurity and Dark Reading
Watch the full video on our site. If you prefer reading, here’s the full transcript 😊 Terry Sweeney - Contributing Editor, Dark Reading Sanjay Ramnath - Associate Vice President, Product Marketing, AT&T Cybersecurity Terry Sweeney: Welcome back to the Dark Reading News Desk. We’re here at the RSA Conference in…
Infosecurity Europe 2019
AT&T Cybersecurity had a big presence at Infosecurity Europe 2019 in London, June 4-6. Our theme was unifying security management with people, process and technologies. While the industry is generally moving in the right direction, IT teams still struggle with being overwhelmed on the technology side, not knowing where to begin on the process side, and finding (or being…
Confidence: the perception and reality of cybersecurity threats
At RSA 2019, we conducted a survey that netted 733 respondents along with interviews between Javvad Malik, former security advocate at AT&T Cybersecurity, and security experts. The full results are in his comprehensive and informative research report. Following are a few highlights: Internal threats Phishing is the clear “winner” here. At 29%, nearly a third cited phishing as the…
Great find! The ThreatTraq Internet Weather Report
Every week, the AT&T Chief Security Office produces a set of videos with helpful information and news commentary for InfoSec practitioners and researchers. I really enjoy them, and penned a blog on a segment on the impact the banning of smartphones in some secure federal facilities a few weeks ago. The Internet Weather Report is a…
Ban on Smartphones in Secure Federal Facilities
The Federal ban on smartphones for some employees in the workspace makes a lot of sense in post-Snowden days. The phone has a camera, microphone, Bluetooth and other capabilities that can be abused, with or without the employee even intending harm. AT&T ThreatTraq did a six-minute video I really enjoyed. ThreatTraq is a production of the…
Fileless Malware Detection: A Crash Course
Given you’re here, you’re likely new to this topic, so please be aware in that fileless malware, fileless malware attack, and fileless attack are different words for the same thing. With that clear, let’s jump in! What is Fileless Malware and How Does It Work? There are many definitions of a fileless malware…
Managed Security Trends and Usage
New infographic! The full report is here. …
Reverse Engineering Malware
The Alien Labs team does a lot of malware analysis as a part of their security research. I interviewed a couple members of our Labs team, including Patrick Snyder, Eddie Lee, Peter Ewane and Krishna Kona, to learn more about how they do it. Here are some of the approaches and tools and techniques they use for reverse engineering malware,…
Top 12 Blogs of 2018
Time to look back on the top AlienVault blogs of 2018! Here we go: A North Korean Monero Cryptocurrency Miner by Chris Doman Crypto-currencies could provide a financial lifeline to a country hit hard by sanctions. Therefore it’s not surprising that universities in North Korea have shown a clear interest in cryptocurrencies. Recently the Pyongyang University of Science and…
Who Would You Hire in Your SOC?
I got curious about what kind of people are most desired in a Security Operations Center (SOC). I wondered how accepting InfoSec blue teamers would be to having a team member with a great attitude and system administration or network management skills, versus someone with deep InfoSec knowledge and skills. So I did a poll on Twitter to learn more.…
NCSAM Finale: Social Media Sharing Tips
This is the last in our blog series on security awareness to celebrate National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). We decided to take on social media sharing tips, and we tapped the Spiceworks community of IT pros for tips and tricks. We made it a contest, with the winner getting a $200 airline voucher. Here is the winning entry: We…
