Tag: Ransomware
How DevOps Teams Can Defend Against API Attacks
Remember when ransomware was the main security threat that DevOps teams needed to worry about? Those days are over. Ransomware attacks are certainly still happening, but API security breaches—which increased by a ...
That Other Continuous: Data Protection
Looking around at things to add to our current project’s toolchain (that is one of the reasons we do these side projects; to check out all sorts of new ideas/tools/etc), and researching ...
Make GitHub Backups Part of Your Development Process
GitHub’s platform is the largest host of source code in the world, hosting over 190 Million repositories. So much of the code we rely on every day is hosted there. You are, ...
Ransomware will Double in 2017. Are you Prepared?
A recent report found that ransomware attacks quadrupled in 2016, and are likely to double in 2017. Not surprisingly, a research survey showed that 48 percent of organizations had been hit by ...
Elasticsearch Ransomware Attacks Highlight Need for Better Security
Recently, reports surfaced that a large number of Elasticsearch servers fell victim to potential ransomware attacks. Ransomware is the type of malware a company doesn’t want on its systems or network. It ...
Murphy’s DevOps: The Internet Apocalypse
Joe Franscella | | APT, Ashley Madison, China, CIA, Cybersecurity, devops, Edward Snowden, hacking, infosec, John Brennan, Kim Zetter, OPM, Ransomware, rugged devops, securityI’ve been immersed in cybersecurity for a good stretch, since it was known as just "infosec" and "security." Over time, I’ve had opportunities to work with some brilliant minds and young-gun “hackers” (I’m not ...