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Should You Pay Hacker Ransom?

Should You Pay Hacker Ransom?

If you haven’t heard by now, Uber paid hackers [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/uber-concealed-cyberattack-that-exposed-57-million-people-s-data] $100,000 in ransom last year in exchange for deleting the stolen personal information of 57 million victims. Hackers have also been know to demand ransom for DDoS attacks [https://www.bleepingcomputer.

What is Threat Intelligence?

threat intelligence

What is Threat Intelligence?

A quick Google search suggests that a consensus has not quite been reached on defining the term “cyber threat intelligence.” There are some blog posts (yep, this one too) and even white papers attempting to assign some specifics or even trying to define threat intelligence by defining what it isn’