Blog Posts Tagged with "APT"
Three New Podcasts: Security Conversations - A Podcast With Ryan Naraine
March 04, 2013 Added by:Infosec Island
In these three new episodes of the Security Conversations Podcast, Ryan Naraine interviews Adobe's David Lenoe on Frustrations With "Partial Disclosure", Securosis CEO Rich Mogull on Mandiant's APT1 Report and Advanced Threat Actors, and Sourcefire's Yves Younan on Tracking 25 Years of Vulnerability Data.
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So APT Is China *snicker* Now What?
February 28, 2013 Added by:Krypt3ia
As RSA comes to a close and the corridors of the hall stop ringing with the acronym APT, I find myself once again looking at the problem as opposed to the hype.
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China's PLA Behind Massive Cyber Espionage Operation
February 19, 2013 Added by:Mike Lennon
In a fascinating, unprecedented, and statistics-packed report, security firm Mandiant made direct allegations and exposed a multi-year, massive cyber espionage campaign that they say with confidence is the work of China.
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Opinion: Recent ISACA Study Adds Fuel to the APT Fire
February 18, 2013 Added by:Steve Ragan
Most of the time, attacks considered APTs use 0-Day exploits, or malware that slips past poorly updated AV software, or phishing to compromise a host or organization. There is nothing advanced about attacks like these...
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New York Times Says It Was Infiltrated By Chinese Hackers
January 31, 2013 Added by:Infosec Island
The New York Times said it had fallen victim to hackers possibly connected to China's military, linking the sophisticated attacks to its expose of the vast wealth amassed by Premier Wen Jiabao's family.
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Resource: Defeating Advanced Persistent Threat Malware
January 29, 2013 Added by:Infosec Island
Attacks can come from anywhere. Even more daunting is that not all malware is alike. Learn about battling advanced threats and the progressive strategies to battle malware from this new white paper.
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Advanced Persistent Threats: Separating the Unicorns from Reality
July 14, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
APT - Advanced Persistent Threat has been the nervous topic for a long time now in Information Security. While there is a metric ton of misinformation and confusion about what constitutes an Advanced Persistent Threat, the thrust seems to be that once you're a target, you're a victim...
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APT Detection with IOCs: The New Maginot Line
March 18, 2012 Added by:Pascal Longpre
IOCs can also be easily circumvented by the attackers by using dormant backdoors created by different actors and using completely different techniques. Creating a simple backdoor that spawns a reverse shell to the attacker’s system requires limited skills, time and money...
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How FUD Defends Against APT
March 08, 2012 Added by:J. Oquendo
We placed computers in the environment of our critical infrastructure that are responsible for the things like water, power, communications - but we never engineered security into the equation. We are looking at a magnificent attack in the next couple of months, even days or hours...
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McAfee Report: No Immunity from Targeted Attacks
February 22, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“The threat landscape continued to evolve in 2011, and we saw a significant shift in motivation for cyber attacks. Increasingly, we’ve seen that no organization, platform or device is immune to the increasingly sophisticated and targeted threats..."
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Why Data Leaks
February 13, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
The main reason is people. People handle electronic data and make mistakes or do not follow policies. People are increasing conscious that information has value – all information has some value to someone and that someone may be willing to pay...
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APT: What It Is and What It’s Not
February 10, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
They can use the most elegant of solutions and nimbly change their tactics, on the fly create/edit code to defeat the defender's tactics, and use the most simplistic of attacks in the effort to gain access KEEP it as long as possible to succeed in their own ends...
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A Perspective on Advanced Persistent Threat
October 25, 2011 Added by:Chris Kimmel
A true APT has close to a 100% penetration rate. It should be noted that the difficulty of attacks can range from simple social engineering to a zero-day. These attackers will tend to use any attack method they can to penetrate an organization...
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Operation Shady Rat: Or As I like To Call It...
August 15, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
It is readily apparent from this POS that McAfee has put out that they are just fishing for some press here for their flagging AV sales. This paper gives nothing relevant to the story around APT and as such, it should be just relegated to the dustbin of the internet and forgotten...
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APTs Require a Comprehensive Architecture
June 08, 2011 Added by:Rahul Neel Mani
APTs are becoming more and more complicated. However, there are certain security measures that organisation still need to take. Take the case of Epsilon data breach, or RSA breach. Hacked using simple social engineering tools like spear phishing and phishing e-mail to succeed...
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A Potential Silver Lining in a Government Shutdown
April 08, 2011 Added by:Wayde York
Threats that exploit our systems and target specific information work in the background in a "low and slow" method, and finding them in the din of normal network traffic is difficult. If the shutdown does occur, the layers of noise that protects these threats will be pulled back...
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