The modern digital landscape is a battleground rife with adversaries ready and willing to go to great lengths to steal your data. Clever independent attackers and state-sponsored actors alike are deploying increasingly effective versions of cyber attacks intended to intrude, infect, steal, evade, disrupt and destroy everything they touch. To defend themselves, many businesses are […]
Valentine’s Day is February 14. Traditionally it’s the one day of the year when people express their love for each other by sending flowers, candies and love notes. But we’re not here to talk about love and candy and flowers… we’re here to talk about how hackers use holidays like this to compromise your security. […]
All year long, HALOCK employees are helping clients secure their information and data assets, and at the same time, these same employees are great stewards of the communities in which they live. In 2014, they have run, walked, biked and stepped up innumerable stairs for worthy causes. They’ve lost a few golf balls for Muscular […]
Recently the Symantec Corporation uncovered a highly sophisticated, modular piece of malware that has been infecting computers in a variety of countries as far back as 2008 – Backdoor.regin has characteristics beyond those of modern malware and is already generally accepted as a product of nation-state cyber espionage. The implant likely took considerable resources and […]
There I was, ankle deep in raw sewage, incredulous that for the second time this summer, my basement was filling up with foul smelling murky waste. As I looked hopelessly at my wife while the water level continued to rise, I angrily thought to myself, “What else can I do?” Didn’t I shell out some […]
Title: CVE-2014-4980 Parameter Tampering in Nessus Web UI – Remote Information Disclosure Product: Nessus Vendor: Tenable Network Security
For those of us in the world of information security, the news of Attorney General Eric Holder bringing a first-of-its-kind criminal cyber espionage case against Chinese military officials is no surprise at all. For years, the Chinese have been known for launching cyber attacks on American industrial and military targets to steal prized military secrets […]
Eve Adams (@HackerHuntress), Senior Talent Acquisition Expert, was recently named one of Business Insider’s 100 Most Influential Tech Women on Twitter.
Now that you know that Heartbleed is potentially exposing your secure systems to malicious hackers, you need to know what to do about it. Not only does that mean you need to secure your systems (even the ones you don’t yet know use Open SSL), but you also need to be able to understand the […]
Schaumburg, IL, April 9, 2014: In 2013, HALOCK Security Labs noted information security vulnerabilities at colleges and universities along with numerous hacker challenges that plague these institutions across the United States. More breaches may come to light if higher education institutions do not rethink their cyber security measures.