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Bradford Rand, President and CEO of Cyber Summit USA joins the Colorado Business roundtable to talk about the third annual Cyber Security Summit: Denver on April 2nd. We’ll even get some cyber security tips for the average computer user.

Presented at the 2018 DC Metro Cyber Security Summit by David Cass, CISO, IBM.

Booter and Stresser Services Increase the Scale and Frequency of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

Criminal actors offer distributed denial of service (DDoS)-for-hire services in criminal forums and marketplaces. These DDoS-for-hire services, also known as booters or stressers, are leveraged…

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Common Internet of Things Devices May Expose Consumers to Cyber Exploitation

In conjunction with National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the FBI is re-iterating the growing concern of cyber criminals targeting unsecure Internet of Things (IoT) devices…

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Ransomware

Ransomware is a form of malware that targets both human and technical weaknesses in organizations and individual networks in an effort to deny the availability of critical data and systems. Ransomware is frequently…

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Business E-mail Compromise, E-mail Account Compromise: The 5 Billion Dollar Scam

Business E-mail Compromise (BEC) is defined as a sophisticated scam targeting businesses working with foreign suppliers and/or businesses that regularly perform wire transfer payments…

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2017 IC3 Annual Report

In May 2000, the IC3 was established as a center to receive complaints of Internet crime. There have been 4,063,933 complaints reported to the IC3 since its inception…

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2017 Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment

The past 12 months have seen a number of unprecedented cyber-attacks in terms of their global scale, impact and rate of spread. Already causing widespread public concern, these attacks…

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Department of Justice Mirai Press Release

The Justice Department announced today the guilty pleas in three cybercrime cases. In the District of Alaska, defendants pleaded guilty to creating and operating two botnets, which targeted “Internet of Things”…

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Internet Crime Schemes

Auction fraud involves fraud attributable to the misrepresentation of a product advertised for sale through an Internet auction site or the non-delivery of products purchased through an Internet auction site…

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Presented at the Cyber Security Summit Atlanta  – February 28, 2018

Although fundamentally intertwined, security teams and the rest of the business often struggle to communicate, especially when the topic is risk. Security teams measure this as technical risk, “how vulnerable are we?” The rest of the organization measures this as a business risk, “what will our losses be and how much will the recovery cost?” Join us to discuss how various scoring mechanisms can be implemented to bridge this gap to articulate risk in a way that all teams understand.