Segmentados Investigación y Análisis

The aim of Cybersecurity Highlights service is to gather all relevant news related to cybersecurity through the year. This is the article that summarizes those news that have been more important in 2017.

Denial-of-service attacks are a type of cyber-attack which consists on reducing or cancelling altogether the capacity of servers or other computing resources to provide service. A denial-of-service attack can occur in different scenarios, such as overloading online services by mass request sending or exploiting vulnerabilities of programs or services in order to suspend function totally or partially. In most of such attacks, attackers use a wide range of techniques and tools to hide their identities, which makes it especially challenging to find the culprits.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has published the 10 most critical web application risks, 2017 edition, which points injection attacks as the greater security risk once again, as in the 2013 and 2010 editions.

Carrying out an intrusion test or vulnerability analysis in a control system can prove complex due to availability. This is where testbeds come into play. They reproduce production environments and can be of great assistance to researchers and security analysts

Last year ransomware became the threat most widely used by attackers to monetise their actions. This fact has also affected industrial sectors which, to a greater or lesser extent, have suffered this type of malware.

Traditionally, malware creates files, copies of itself or additional malware that is dropped into different locations of the system it compromises, able to do so with similar names to legitimate files, with the aim of being passed off for as long as possible.

El aim of Cybersecurity Highlights service is to gather all relevant news related to cybersecurity through the year. This is the article that summarizes those news that have been more important in 2016.

When carrying a forensic analysis for mobile device , bearing in mind first and foremost the phases of acquisition and analysis of the evidence, it is necessary to know a wide range of methods, techniques and tools as well as the criteria necessary for being able to evaluate the suitability of using one versus another.

When information of a dataset are analysed, whose origin or “feed” may be a database, information of raw files, logs, spreadsheet data, etc. one of the most powerful tools for drawing conclusions is to carry out correlations. In the post “The importance of language, binary diffing and other “One Day” stories”, we highlighted that the term “correlation” has begun to be heard frequently. However,...