Cybersecurity Trends for 2014 – Trend 6 – Big Data Becomes Huge Data with Things like SSL Visibility

Image from cxotoday.com. Cross-posted to the Blue Coat security blog. Apologies for the delay in getting this last post in the series out, but I recently got married! We’ve looked at five precious trends for this year and what they’ll mean in the Cybersecurity landscape: botclouds not botnets: the idea that physical machines are becoming […]

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Cybersecurity Trends for 2014 – Trend 5 – 3rd Party Security Requirements Increase

Image from ctvnews.ca. Cross-posted to the Blue Coat security blog. In the previous post, I discussed how the Deep Web was starting to surface. One of the things that shows that this will occur was the Target breach. The malware found in the Point-of-Sale (PoS) systems in the Target breach was using Tor to transmit […]

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#DeepWeb Lesson Number Five: How to Convert #Litecoins to #Bitcoins Easily #agorism

Image from bitcoinboard.net. Bitcoins require ASICs to mine these days, so outside of heading over to butterflylabs.com or kncminer.com and plunking down a fair bit of cash, how does one easily get Bitcoins? The answer is by mining Litecoins and converting them to Bitcoins. Mining Litecoins requires much less power in terms of hardware (for […]

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Trends in #CyberSecurity for 2014 #bitcoin #litecoin #botcloud #deepweb #malware #bigdata

Picture from Northeastern.edu. I gave a talk at the Info Crime Summit in London yesterday, and identified what I think will be six trends in cybersecurity. I won’t provide the details here – I plan to outline those on my company’s blog – but I will provide a link to those posts on twitter. (You […]

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#DeepWeb Lesson Number Four: Cryptocurrencies #bitcoin #litecoin #agorism #gloriousagoristfuture @coindesk @localbitcoins

What is a cryptocurrency? Why should you care? Let’s start by looking at the word in parts. The second part, currency, means a medium of exchange. (It’s important to note that we’re not talking about money here, but currency. Only two things are money – gold and silver. Everything else is currency.) The first part, […]

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#DeepWeb Lesson Number Three: DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo @yegg @duckduckhack #agorism

Once you’re on the Deep Web, participating in the glorious agorist future (or just doing your own thing), it’s important that you do everything you can to avoid leaving tell-tale pieces of information about yourself all over the web. What good is it to obfuscate your connection and traffic if you then tell everyone who […]

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