In the latest Mandiant webinar, consultants Chris Oetting and Mike Middleton explained the difficulty of restoring an organization’s network after it has suffered a serious cyber attack. About 30% of recent cyber attacks that Mandiant has responded to involve organizations that have been compromised by attackers employing backdoors. These are programs installed surreptitiously on a … Continue reading Mandiant Webinar Highlights the Difficulty of Dealing with the Latest Varieties of Cyber Attacks
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How Facebook is Used to Spear Your Employees: The Secret World of Data Mining
About six months ago, I met one of my former students. He told me how he was now working in data mining. I figured I knew what that entailed. The company he worked for probably analyzed customer data or gathered data from potential customers through information it acquired from the internet and, then, sold this … Continue reading How Facebook is Used to Spear Your Employees: The Secret World of Data Mining
