Day: April 18, 2017

Fact or fiction? The truth about the Windows and Office hacks

It’s been a crazy week. Last Monday we learned about the Word zero-day vulnerability that uses a booby-trapped Word document attached to an email message to infect Windows PCs. Then, on Friday, came the deluge of Windows exploits collectively identified with their leaker, Shadow Brokers, that appear to originate with the U.S. National Security Agency. In

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9 superheroes for crack security teams

As a traveling enterprise security consultant, I get to see security teams at their best and their worst. Under stress, some teams work like a well-oiled machines, while others devolve into inefficient, finger-pointing bureaucracies. Every great computer security team has a synergistic collection of skilled professionals who work well together to meet common goals. The

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