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Verizon DBIR
Nightmare on Pwn Street
We've gone a little Halloween-crazy this year over here at Rapid7 Towers. Check
out this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video to hear how organizations are like
the protagonists of horror movies; making decisions that may ultimately make
them vulnerable to attack. In addition, while we were carving our pumpkins and
sewing our costumes, we got to thinking about one of the most horrifying
realities in information security: many organizations keep falling victim to the
same tricks they've seen in the
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It's the Great Pumpkin Patching Contest, Charlie Brown!
It's October! You all know what that means! That's right! It's National Cyber
Security Awareness Month
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Oh...some of you thought Halloween...right. Well let's see if we can shoe-horn
those two together.
Browsing the internet can be a little scary at times. Kind of like trick or
treating, there are houses you know to avoid because the lights are out, but how
do you avoid the house where they've gone on a health kick and are
1 min
SecurityStreet Talks - Houston
Join UHY Advisors and Rapid7 for an afternoon of learning, networking and
discussion with your peers from the Houston security community.
Presenters include Zate Berg, Internal Security Manager at Rapid7, Chris Ward
with Vinson & Elkins LLP, Security Evangelist's Quincy Jackson and Kenneth
Sayles, and more. The afternoon will consist of short, 30-45 minute
presentations focused on hacking industrial control systems, building risk
management methodologies, security philosophy and information sec
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Networking
Leveraging Security Risk Intelligence to Improve Your Security Posture
As most of you probably know, attackers routinely target exploitable weaknesses
of security systems rather than pre-identifying victims for their attacks. Also,
most breaches that occur in database security systems are avoidable without
expensive or sophisticated countermeasures.
In its 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon
[http://www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/reports/rp_data-breach-investigations-report-2012_en_xg.pdf]
registered 174 million compromised records for 2011, compar