Anatomy of a modern cyber attack
Cyber attacks are seldom carried out by technically skilled attackers. Traditional hacking methods such as decoding encryption or infiltrating firewalls are becoming a thing of the past. The anatomy of a cyberattack is changing. Criminals no longer hack into; they just log in. Because weak, stolen or otherwise compromised login data create an easy gateway for malicious actors, even if they have only limited technical skills. Employee logins stolen The recent data breach on Twitter, in which dozens of prominent user accounts were hijacked, is a good example of how cyberattacks are now ...
