Steve Ragan
Senior Staff Writer
Prior to joining the journalism world in 2005, Steve Ragan spent 15 years as a freelance IT contractor focused on infrastructure management and security. He's a father of two and rounded geek with a strong technical background.
Congress pushes MITRE to fix CVE program, suggests regular reviews and stable funding
On Monday, the Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to MITRE Corporation and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), recommending reforms be made to the troubled CVE program. In fact, the letters state, if the "deep-seated...
Mirai leveraging Aboriginal Linux to target multiple platforms
The Mirai botnet hasn't gone away, you don't hear about it much, but the code has been constantly updated and maintained. Recently, Symantec's Dinesh Venkatesan discovered a command and control (C&C) server hosting various types of...
Talking phishing campaigns with @PhishingAI's Jeremy Richards | Salted Hash, Ep. 42
All this week, while we’re on location in Las Vegas, Salted Hash has been discussing phishing and the impact it has had on the public. Today, we’re getting an insider view on how @PhishingAI operates, and learning about a recent...
Inside Dropbox and Microsoft Office phishing attacks | Salted Hash, Ep. SC03
Today on Salted Hash, we're going to look at a phishing attack that targeted me directly. It's got a few interesting elements, including a weak attempt to spoof an HTTPS connection, and a sort of hybrid lure, which starts as Dropbox...
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What are phishing kits? Web components of phishing attacks explained
A phishing kit is the back-end to a phishing attack. It's the final step in most cases, where the criminal has replicated a known brand or organization.
Introducing Kit Hunter, a phishing kit detection script | Salted Hash, Ep. 40
Kit Hunter is a basic Python script that will run on Linux or Windows. When you run Kit Hunter it searches web directories for phishing kits based on common kit elements located in the tag file. If there is a match, it logs the...
Reddit discloses hack, says SMS intercept allowed attackers to skirt 2FA protections
Reddit, one of the largest websites on the internet, announced on Wednesday that someone was able to compromise staff accounts at their cloud and source code hosting providers, leaving backups, source code, and various logs exposed.
Samsam infected thousands of LabCorp systems via brute force RDP
LabCorp, one of the largest clinical labs in the U.S., said the Samsam ransomware attack that forced their systems offline was contained quickly and didn't result in a data breach. However, in the brief time between detection and...
Salted Hash Ep 34: Red Team vs. Vulnerability Assessments
This week on Salted Hash, Phil Grimes, Professional Services Lead at RedLegg, discusses why words matter, the concept of scoping for Red Teams, and shares more stories from his days in the field as we discuss tailgating and dumpster...
No data breach at Patreon, but proactive notice caused some concern
Patreon, the membership platform that helps creators get paid for their work, sent users a letter on Monday warning them about a data breach at Typeform. But the proactive letter caused some panic, as more than a few people took it to...
92 million MyHeritage email addresses found on private server
On Monday, MyHeritage, an online genealogy platform, announced that more than 90 million of their users had email addresses and hashed passwords compromised, after a researcher discovered a file being hosted on a private server.
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