Writing a book takes a long time, and just a couple of weeks ago I just wrapped up and released my new book related to Ransomware Protection and as part of any book you need to do some research. Before I started on writing the book I was involved with several cases where customers had …
Part One: Analyzing the Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack Read More »
For the last year or so I’ve been working on a new book project. Given the last few years, I’ve been working a lot with customers that have been impacted by ransomware or wanted to implement more countermeasures. Therefore, last year I pitched my idea to Packt Publishing about my book idea and they were …
New book – Windows Ransomware Protection and Detection Read More »
As many have said before me, moving virtual infrastructure to public cloud does not make any changes to what kind of responsibility you have as a customer in regards of management of those virtual machines. A Couple of weeks ago I did a presentation at the Nordic Virtual Summit about Security in Microsoft Azure, therefore …
Microsoft Azure – Security Monitoring and Logging Read More »
UPDATE Post: 05/05/2020 The featured picture here is taken from an environment I worked on, where attackers had compromised a set of publicly available servers in Azure through a known vulnerability in Jenkins. Where the attackers got access to a public-facing VM and then using root access got access to the other servers in the same …
Protection and Countermeasures Against Ransomware Attacks Read More »
Lately there have been more and more ransomware attacks, where companies are faced with their systems and data becoming encrypted, and forcing them to pay a ransom to get access back to their data. A couple of weeks ago I started to subscribe to https://shadowintelligence.io/ feed just to see how many companies that are getting affected …
Protection against Ransomware Attacks, Credential Stuffing and Password Spray Attacks Read More »
Looking on social media and the news, I just noticed the announcement that the City of New Orleans was targeted by a cyberattack. They took down the website and that the employees there were instructed to unplug their computers.So far not that much is known, this was published on Twitter earlier today. With the information …
