Ransomware: Hacienda of Puerto Rico
Ransomware: Hacienda of Puerto Rico
Kleared4 closed-operation fly-away edge kit
Kleared4 closed-operation fly-away edge kit
BSides PR 2019
Our President, @jfersec, had the privilege of Keynote during BSides PR 2019. During our presentation, we discussed some hard truth's around: the way DeepFakes and "WeakFakes" are utilizedhow we are good imitators and bad innovators in Puerto Ricopast efforts associated with Accelerated Disclosures for public and private companies in Puerto Ricoflaws associated with contract negotiations with [...]
Case 1
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CompSec Direct now approved Cyber-security vendor in Maryland
CompSec Direct has been approved as a Qualified Maryland Cybersecurity Seller (QMCS) by the Department of Commerce of Maryland. This allows us to provide cybersecurity services to qualifying companies under the Buy Maryland Cybersecurity (BMC) program. The program allows companies with 50 employees or less to purchase services and products from approved vendors like CompSec Direct. [...]
Data Mining PDF documents; using data conversion to reduce analysis time
Problem A month ago, we became aware of a way to harvest legal notifications from a government web-site. Link Here The web-server allows simple requests to be crafted in order to download PDF documents related to court proceedings. After a few hours, we had over 25,000 PDF documents available to analyze. Now the question becomes: What is the [...]
NTT Group Global Threat Intelligence Report 2016
GTIR 2016 NTT Group published a great threat report for 2016. Quality publication and definitely worth while. Good for CISO’s and Info Sec pros alike. Although some of the areas in the Key Findings are questionable given that we recently saw DDoS attacks above 1Tbs , other areas highlight recent trends that ultimately affect all of [...]
CompSec Direct hosts remote incident response training for local Puerto Rico students and experts
We hosted a training session on remote incident response operation on Oct 7, 2016. The course was provided “pro-bono” through @Obsidis_NGO, participants paid a small registration fee that covered lunch. Students were able to analyze malware on remote systems in a safe and controlled environment using our RIL platform. We want to thank everyone who attended the session and [...]
Forcepoint 2015 Threat Report
An excellent publication from Forcepoint that covers CnC malware, malicious insiders and attribution. Unlike other threat reports, this report covers multiple human factors that are often neglected in technical reports. In some cases, human error and predisposition to reuse malware has lead thee researchers to determine a high probability of configuration reuse which leads to easier detection of [...]
Security firm sued for filing “woefully inadequate” forensics report -Arstechnica
Arstechnica's Dan Goodin has reported that Trustwave is being sued by Affinity Gaming for not eliminating malware presence after a forensic investigation had been done. Mandiant uncovered the malware during a follow up PCI forensic investigation. See full-article below. Security firm sued for filing “woefully inadequate” forensics report