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The vendor risk assessment is the lynchpin of every effective third-party risk management program. In theory, the essential components of an assessment are easily determined. However, in practice, the ability to effectively understand and assess third-party controls usually conflicts with the resources available to perform the assessments, and is further handicapped by the need to [...]
Have you heard the story about the foolish farmer’s new horse? The story goes that one day in early spring, a farmer’s horse dies. The farmer needs a horse to pull his plow, so he goes to market to buy a new horse. There he meets a neighbor who says, “I have a promising yearling [...]
It is unlikely there are many people left who have not heard of Pokémon Go. Maybe you are an active player, maybe your stock portfolio includes Nintendo shares, or maybe you have heard the warnings about criminal activity related to the game. For the uninitiated, Pokémon Go is a mobile app that uses a phone’s [...]
On the 19th of July, the much discussed and anticipated Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive was published in the Official Journal of the EU. The Directive was developed to ensure that societies’ dependencies on technology undertake relevant cybersecurity activities to ensure resilience and confidence as we become ever more digitally dependent. The most important [...]
Unit 42 has recently discovered a new variant of PowerWare, also known as PoshCoder, imitating the popular Locky ransomware family. PoshCoder has been encrypting files with PowerShell since 2014, and the new variant named PowerWare was reported in March 2016. The malware is responsible for encrypting files on a victim’s machine and demanding a ransom via the [...]
