Last week we talked about some of the costs of a data breach which you can listen here. In this article we're revisiting the costs of a data breach to business and then we'll highlight some of what everyday people experience. Here are the business costs. The breach itself: Downtime: Depending on how the breach [...]
Around July of 2021, we wrote about one of Connecticut’s new cybesecurity laws, which you can find here[Link]. Our disclaimer still stands that we aren’t lawyers, so if this law affects your organization, please consult with a knowledgeable attorney. While that post was a regurgitation of the law, we didn’t talk about cybersecurity frameworks themselves. [...]
To begin, for those finding Bsquared Intel for the first time and are unfamiliar with OSINT, let’s define it. OSINT, or Open Source Intelligence, is collecting, analyzing, and using publicly available information to help make decisions or answer questions. Also, OSINT isn’t the be all end all solution. It has it’s limitations. However, when used [...]
One thing about many industries is that there are a ton of acronyms for everything. The tech industry certainly has it’s fair share, as well as those in security. OSINT stands for Open Source Intelligence. You may also hear other terms like passive, or public, reconnaissance. The underlying theme of these terms is that public [...]
Welcome back and thanks for stopping by! For those new here, thanks for checking out Project Warwalk. You can check out all of our articles in the series here and visit the glossary to look up any terms. This entry is going to discuss network connected and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. We’ll be talking [...]
A lot has happened in the past ten years for cyber intrusions and data breaches. We want to round out the end of the decade with our top 3 cyber intrusions. Stuxnet: 2010 Stuxnet was discovered around June 2010 by Belarusian antivirus company VirusBlokAda. U.S. based antivirus company Symantec was the first to reverse engineer [...]
