How bring-your-own-land attacks are challenging enterprises

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Issue Highlights: How bring-your-own-land attacks are challenging enterprises Definition: ATM black box attack Definition: brute force attack How NIST is preparing to defend against quantum attacks Iran implicated in DNS hijacking campaign around the world

How bring-your-own-land attacks are challenging enterprises FireEye researchers developed a new technique called bring your own land, which involves attackers creating their own tools. Discover more about how this works with Nick Lewis. Read Now

Definition: ATM black box attack An ATM black box attack, also referred to as jackpotting, is a type of banking-system crime in which the perpetrators bore holes into the top of the cash machine to gain access to its internal infrastructure. Read Now

Definition: brute force attack Brute force (also known as brute force cracking) is a trial and error method used by application programs to decode encrypted data such as passwords or Data Encryption Standard (DES) keys, through exhaustive effort (using brute force) rather than employing intellectual strategies. Read Now

How NIST is preparing to defend against quantum attacks The NSA has begun the transition from ECC to new algorithms to resist quantum attacks. Learn about the threat posed by quantum computing from expert Michael Cobb. Read Now

Iran implicated in DNS hijacking campaign around the world FireEye researchers investigating a DNS hijacking campaign against governments and telecom companies said those who are potential targets of Iran should take precautions. Read Now

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