Entries by Hunter Smith

Worry About Phishing, Not Malware!

 Stu Sjouwerman 2Oct With so many security strategies revolving around the detection of malware, organizations forget the primary source of all their worries – phishing. There are SO many solutions out there designed to help in the fight against malware – email scanners, endpoint-based AV, endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, and more. Each of […]

What is Domain Doppelgänger?

 Lauren Ashley What is Domain Doppelgänger? Domain Doppelgӓnger is KnowBe4’s web-based tool that performs searches specific to your organization’s domain and collects data on any potentially harmful or “evil twin” domains that the bad guys have registered with malicious intent. Since look-alike domains are a potential attack vector for phishing and other social engineering attacks, you […]

Envoy raises $43 million to digitize your office.

Jon Russell@jonrussell / 7 hours ago The office might not seem like an area in desperate need of disruption, but Envoy — a Silicon Valley company used to sign in over 100,000 visitors at offices across the world each day; and a TechCrunch SF office neighbor! — has raised $43 million to do just that. The company started life five years digitizing the sign-in […]

Major browsers simultaneously drop support for old security standards

Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer and Safari are all dropping support for older versions of the online security protocol TLS, used in practically any encrypted exchange online. While few people or machines are using the long-unsafe TLS 1.0 and 1.1, they’re still permitted in many connections — but not for long. Transport Layer Security is […]

Chinese chip spying report shows the supply chain remains the ultimate weakness

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker / 1 week ago  Comment Thursday’s explosive story by Bloomberg reveals detailed allegations that the Chinese military embedded tiny chips into servers, which made their way into data centers operated by dozens of major U.S. companies. We covered the story earlier, including denials by Apple, Amazon and Supermicro — the server maker that was reportedly targeted by the Chinese government. Apple  didn’t respond […]