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Fahmida Y. Rashid
ContributorFahmida brings over a decade of IT security news reporting along with ten years of network administration and software development to Decipher. Every security story has a human face, and her goal is to bring those stories to light. As the senior managing editor of Decipher, she will focus on ways security can impact how people live, work, and play. She enjoys working on stories that speak to those outside the security industry, highlighting the intersection of security and other technology areas. Over the years, she has seen enough to make her overzealous about her personal threat-model, but she doesn’t hold it against anyone for having a more relaxed worldview.
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Mapping the Internet, Who’s Who? (Part Three)
It turned out to be harder than expected to create a definitive list of who is poking the Internet and looking for information about devices. Enter Grey Noise, whose mission is to count the scanners. While scanners scour the Internet looking for things, Grey Noise eavesdrops on everyone—researchers, defenders, and malicious actors—doing the scanning.
Mapping the Internet, Navigation (Part Two)
Whether or not a map is valuable depends entirely on how well someone can use it to navigate from one place to another. Same goes for Internet scans. The scanning tools pull together different types of information, such as the kind of device and how it is configured, but the resulting map—the scan data—is valuable only if people can use it to answer important questions.
Mapping the Internet, One Device at a Time (Part One)
Just as people use search engines such as Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo to find specific information on the Internet, there are special search engines that can find information about Internet-connected devices and networks. Think webcams, printers, smart light bulbs, industrial control systems, monitoring systems. Information about these devices are just a special search query away.
Attackers Lie, Leave False Trails
We still don't know who was behind the Olympic Destroyer malware that targeted South Korea during the Winter Olympics, but we know all those supposed clues to their origins were false clues planted by the attackers. As defenders, assume everything you can't verify completely is a lie the attackers deliberately crafted.
LinkedIn CISO: The Stories We Tell
As CISO of LinkedIn, Cory Scott understands the importance of matching people to the right team. Instead of looking for specific skills or job titles, he asks people for their personal narratives.