Gotham Security Daily Threat Alerts

By Nancy Rand
Posted in Security
On September 03, 2015

September 1, CSOonline.com – (International) Intel: Criminals getting better at data exfiltration. Security researchers from Intel released findings from a report revealing that cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to exfiltrate pilfered data once systems are accessed, including compressing and disguising the data, leveraging Gmail and encryption, and leveraging graphics processors. Source

August 31, Threatpost – (International) CERT warns of slew of bugs in Belkin N600 routers. The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) issued an advisory warning of unpatched vulnerabilities in Belkin N600 DB Wireless Dual Band N+ routers, including insufficient randomization values for transaction identification, a man-in-the-middle (MitM) vulnerability that could allow an attacker to send arbitrary files to routers, and a global cross-site request forgery (CSRF) bug. Source

Nancy Rand

Nancy Rand

Nancy has more than 20 years’ experience in information technology and security, solving business issues and implementing best-practice solutions that support organizational objectives. Her expertise includes leveraging, optimizing, and implementing diverse technology platforms, and management of large-scale technology projects.