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Martin Lee

EMEA Lead, Strategic Planning & Communications

Cisco Talos

A licenced Chartered Engineer and EMEA lead within Talos, the threat intelligence and threat response group of Cisco. Author of "Cyber Threat Intelligence", a comprehensive text book on the subject. Please visit my author profile.

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August 8, 2013

SECURITY

DNS Compromise Distributing Malware

3 min read

DNS records are an attractive target for distributors of malware. By compromising the DNS servers for legitimate domains, attackers are able to redirect visitors to trusted domains to malicious servers under attacker control. DNS requests are served from dedicated servers that may service many thousands of domains. Compromising these servers allows attackers to take over […]

July 29, 2013

SECURITY

Security Implications of Cheaper Storage

3 min read

An advert from Byte magazine dating from July 1980 proudly offers a 10MB hard disk drive for only US$3495. Accounting for the effects of inflation, that equates to approximately US$10,000 in today’s prices. If data storage prices had remained constant, this would mean that the 1GB flash drive in my pocket would cost in excess […]

July 22, 2013

SECURITY

July, a Busy Month for Breaches

4 min read

This month has been particularly prevalent for the loss of personal information. At the beginning of the month it was reported that Club Nintendo had been breached with the personal data of up to 4 million stolen by attackers [1]. Subsequently, the forums of Ubuntu were hacked with the loss of 1.82 million usernames, passwords […]

June 27, 2013

SECURITY

Expiring Albert: Recycling User IDs and the Impact on Privacy

4 min read

Within many organisations offering online services to the public, there must be a great temptation to expire redundant user accounts that occupy desirable user IDs but which are never used by their users. Presumably the user IDs have been registered by someone, used on a couple of occasions, and then forgotten about. Expiring and recycling […]