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A Discussion: Imposter Syndrome & Paths To InfoSec ...
Steve Ragan and Chad Seaman, senior researcher for Akamai's SIRT, discuss their paths into InfoSec, impostor syndrome, and the magic that was Encarta '95. This episode is part of a longer series on impostor syndrome, and the unique paths many of us in Akamai's InfoSec team have taken in security.
Phishing JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques Soars
In our previous blogs, first where we explained JavaScript Obfuscation techniques and introduced a detailed overview on how JavaScript is being used to obfuscate page content to make phishing attacks and other web scams as evasive as possible; followed by one where we took a deep dive to examine double JavaScript obfuscation techniques, presenting a tale of an obfuscated scam seen in the wild and showing how the same phishing
A Discussion: Imposter Syndrome & Paths Into InfoSec
In this week's episode, Martin and Steve talk about imposter syndrome and various paths into InfoSec, as well as how they got their careers started. Everyone's path is unique, and this episode explores that aspect with some recent examples including interviews published by SC Magazine with Lesley Carhart, and Wired who spoke with Maddie Stone - two exceptional examples of security professionals working in the field today.
Exploring the IoT Afterlife
By, Eric Kobrin Not only is October National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), but it also contains one of my favorite holidays: Halloween. In the spirit of NCSAM and Halloween, let's talk about Internet of Things (IoT) devices wreaking havoc from beyond the grave.
The Tale of Double JavaScript Obfuscated Scam
Overview The phishing landscape is constantly evolving. Over the years, it has evolved into a more scalable threat, with an overwhelming amount of campaigns being launched daily. Phishing also changed when criminals started adding more capabilities and features to their toolkits, which make the phishing websites long lived and difficult to detect.
Tales From The Pot: Solr powered Kinsing
Additional research and support provided by Chad Seaman. Introduction Akamai SIRT has been working on the development, and deployment, of custom multipurpose honeypots that attempt to mimic a wide array of services and devices. One of these honeypots shows the inner workings of an active exploitation campaign targeting Apache Solr (Solr). The campaign had a noticeable effect on targeting and exploitation attempts for two CVEs impacting Solr servers. This post
Catch Me if You Can - JavaScript Obfuscation
While conducting threat research on phishing evasion techniques, Akamai came across threat actors using obfuscation and encryption, making the malicious page harder to detect. The criminals were using JavaScript to pull this off.
Passwords: A Discussion
This week, join Martin and myself for a conversation around passwords, which is the theme for this week of National Cyber Security Awareness Month.
State of the Internet/Security: Loyalty For Sale
Criminals aren't afraid to use our loyalty against us. As we've said in previous reports, password reuse is a significant problem in all industries. This latest edition of the State of the Internet/ Security report dives deep into how loyalty programs are targeted and exploited in the retail & hospitality industries.