Articles and Comments By Roger Grimes
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Fifth Of 18 To 34-year-olds Have Fallen Victim To Financial Scams
November 09 , 2022 by Roger Grimes
Regardless of the results of this particular survey, the key message that we should be sharing is th...
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Lloyds Of London Ends Insurance Coverage For State Cyber Attacks, Expert Weighs In
August 22 , 2022 by Roger Grimes
My best guess is that Lloyds doesn't want to be held accountable for very large ransomware/wiperware...
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Cyberattack Blocks Albania’s Public Online Services
July 19 , 2022 by Roger Grimes
"History has shown over and over that country governments are not immune to cyberattacks. And it's n...
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CISA Releases Directive For US Agencies To Address Software Vulnerabilities
November 04 , 2021 by Roger Grimes
What CISA is doing is great! They are to be applauded. They are doing a few things that I think are...
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Emotet Took Down A Network By Overheating All Computers - Expert Reaction
April 06 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
That it occurred because of a single phishing email is not strange. Seventy to ninety percent of all...
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Experts Insight On Chubb Ins. Reports 2019 Ransomware Attacks Outpacing 2018
March 30 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
The vast majority of ransomware attacks are due to one of two things: a phishing email or unpatched...
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Tech Giant GE Discloses Data Breach - Experts Reaction
March 24 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
While I’m usually a bit numb to the latest data breach, the sheer variety of exposed information i...
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Clearview AI's Entire Client List Stolen In Data Breach - Experts Reaction
February 28 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
It’s unclear what “unauthorized access” means, and I’m just guessing, but the general contou...
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Phishing Experts On Norton LifeLock Phishing Scam Installs Remote Access Trojan
February 28 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
This is another great example of sophisticated phishing that bypasses many technical security contro...
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Cypress WiFi Chips Leak Sensitive Info Due To Kr00k Bug In Broadcom - Experts Insight
February 27 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
I\'m normally a skeptic on most announced vulnerabilities. Most are too over hyped. This one isn\'t....
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WHO Warns Of Coronavirus Phishing Attacks - Experts Comments
February 19 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
This is among the most common hacking tactics- using a newsworthy event along with a “stressor eve...
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Email-Based Extortion Scheme Targets Web Site Owners Using Google’s AdSense Program - Security Awareness Experts Insight
February 18 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
This is a very interesting attack – a new approach and I don’t see much that surprises me often...
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Experts Analysis Of Backdoor Campaign Targetting US Financial Sector
February 10 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
It’s no surprise that most of these attacks are coming from social engineering attacks. Seventy to...
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Experts On Study Finds Red Teams OK To Push Ethical Limits But Not On Themselves
February 04 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
My biggest concern with red teams is how accurately they reflect the real risks and threats to the o...
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Experts On Study Finds Red Teams OK To Push Ethical Limits But Not On Themselves
February 04 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
My biggest concern with red teams is how accurately they reflect the real risks and threats to the o...
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Experts On Study Finds Red Teams OK To Push Ethical Limits But Not On Themselves
February 04 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
My biggest concern with red teams is how accurately they reflect the real risks and threats to the o...
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Microsoft Issues Excel Security Alert After Detecting New TA505 Malware Attacks
February 03 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
This attack may be new for this particular threat actor, but it’s been used for decades by other g...
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Microsoft Exposes 250M Customer Support Records On Leaky Servers - Experts Comments
January 23 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
This is a fairly common type of hack. Overly permissive permissions abound on servers and cloud prod...
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Jeff Bezos' Phone Hacked By Saudi Crown Prince - Expert Comments
January 23 , 2020 by Roger Grimes
I can’t speak to the absolute particulars of the incident. It does seem strange that the Saudi Cro...
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2020 Cybersecurity Landscape: 100+ Experts' Predictions
December 21 , 2019 by Roger Grimes
Social engineering and unpatched software will remain the top two root causes for successful exploit...
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Experts Comments On French Online Fashion Store Sixth June Hacked
October 29 , 2019 by Roger Grimes
The Sixth June credit card stealing trojan is a fairly common technique for today’s malicious hack...
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Expert On Spelevo Exploit Kit & Maze Ransomware
October 22 , 2019 by Roger Grimes
Easily the most disturbing part about this story is malicious individuals and organizations setting...
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Experts Insight on Pitney Bowes Ransomware Attack
October 15 , 2019 by Roger Grimes
The shipping industry has been a pretty big target ever since the NotPetya ransomware attack on Maer...
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Security Experts Perspective On Quantum Supremacy Posting By Google
September 24 , 2019 by Roger Grimes
We don’t know exactly what this means because Google posted the announcement of them reaching quan...
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Millions Of Lion Air Passenger Records Breached - Expert Commentary
September 20 , 2019 by Roger Grimes
It’s likely that hundreds of thousands of companies have the same cybersecurity issue as Lion Air....
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Commenst On Magecart Skimming Attack Targets Mobile Users Of Hotel Chain Booking Websites
September 19 , 2019 by Roger Grimes
This is a combination of two major attack types: credit card skimming malware and a “supply chain...
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