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User and Entity Behavioral Analytics (UEBA) has evolved quite a bit over the past several years. It started as just User Behavioral Analytics, which focused on catching malicious insider threats and then practitioners and vendors realized that user activity is only part of the picture and that the behavior of servers and endpoints are also important to get a more complete perspective. This is especially true when analyzing the Internet of Things and Industrial Control System environments.

We have collectively heard the saying, “where there is smoke, there is fire” throughout our lives. And, sure enough, it is true far more often than it is false. I have been seeing a lot of smoke lately, so I suspect that there is an interesting fire burning. 

Windows 10 can detect suspicious PowerShell activities, code injection, and malicious documents, including attacks where a process connects to a web server and starts dropping and launching an app, Microsoft says.

Webroot commissioned Wakefield Research to query 600 SMB IT decision makers in the US, UK and Australia to discover current attitudes towards IT security among companies with less than 500 employees. Such companies are often thought to be more at risk of successful cyber-attacks because of smaller budgets, fewer IT staff, and fewer infosecurity products designed for the smaller company.

I’ve been attending the DEF CON hacker conference for 18 years. This year, I was starting to think “I’m too old for this stuff!” Don’t get me wrong, I still love the community-oriented DIY hacker spirit of the conference, but after all this time, I was starting to think I’d seen it all. Yeah. 

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