PinnedStuxnet — Reverse Engineering the most sophisticated Malware of its timeBackground Let’s time travel back to January 2010. This was before the era of the whole Internet of Things (or Internet of Threats) debacle. This was when DDoS attacks peaked at around a measly 49 Gbps [1]. Before the whole WannaCry ransomware outbreak. Things were simple in 2010. …Cybersecurity6 min readCybersecurity6 min read
Jan 11iTWire — Constant Evolution is the Key to Protecting your Data from Threat ActorsGUEST OPINION by Asjad Athick, Principal Security Specialist at Elastic Whenever a major cybersecurity incident occurs, there are two things everyone asks. Could it have been prevented, and what did the victim of the attack do to minimise the damage? The left side of that equation, prevention, is critical and is…Cybersecurity5 min readCybersecurity5 min read
Feb 3, 2021Preventing “copy-paste compromises” (ACSC 2020–008) with Elastic SecurityThe Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) recently published an advisory outlining tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used against multiple Australian businesses in a recent campaign by a state-based actor. The campaign — dubbed ‘copy-paste compromises’ because of its heavy use of open source proof of concept exploits — was first…Elastic6 min readElastic6 min read
Jun 22, 2020Monitoring your Amazon EKS Cluster with the Elastic StackTo achieve unified observability, we need to gather all of the logs, metrics, and application traces from an environment. Storing them in a single datastore drastically increases our visibility, allowing us to monitor other distributed environments as well. In this blog, we will walk through one way to set up…AWS5 min readAWS5 min read
Mar 2, 2018Highlights from the 2018 Gartner Data Analytics Summit — SydneyData is at the core of modern technology. A successful data program means access to intelligence driven cyber security, data governance based risk management, business relevant insights, resilient operations, just in time supply chain management… the list goes on. Here are the main ideas I went back to work with…Big Data5 min readBig Data5 min read
Sep 28, 2017Key takeaways from the 2017 Gartner Security Summit — SydneyI do apologise for all the buzzwords you’re going to read in this article. But then again, what’s the point of working in this industry if you can’t use buzzwords! Gartner held their premier Security and Risk Management Summit in late August and without doubt saw great attendance from all…Internet Of Things5 min readInternet Of Things5 min read
