Entries by Scott Hagenus

The AFP Phishing email is cryptolocker

In the news over the last couple of days there have been warnings of an Australian Federal Police (AFP) branded phishing email. We received one of these emails in our office and decided to run it through our malware analysis sandbox, ThreatAnalyzer, to determine the behaviour of the sample – something that wasn’t mentioned in the news articles. Although Facebook […]

April 30, 2015 by
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RSA 2015: SIEM and logging solutions are dead?

Last week at the RSA Conference 2015, RSA CISO Eddie Schwartz declared that in addition to Anti-Virus, SIEM solutions are also ‘dead’ and that IT security departments need to become “more big data aware“. ‘Big Data’ in this case refers to the collection and processing of data holistically in an organisations environment, not just collecting […]

April 27, 2015 /0 Comments/by