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  • SYN-of-the-week 5: Sloth

    The fifth SYN-of-the-week is SLOTH. Sloth is the SYN of allowing immediate demands to consume our attention at the detriment of other essentials leading (eventually) to our downfall. As a profession, our sloth in addressing the cyber security workforce shortage is having a profound effect on our ability to secure our organizations. According the to…

  • SYN-of-the-week 4: Gluttony (Throwback Thursday)

    Stu Hirst and Tash Norris talk about their journey to build a security program to protect “Huge amounts of data!” in a complex cloud environment in their talk “For Crying out Cloud!”. #BSidesMunich23, #7SYNshttps://2023.bsidesmunich.org

  • SYN-of-the-week 4: Gluttony (in meme)

    This week’s SYN-of-the-week is GLUTTONY. This is overindulgence in digital assets which increases an organization’s attack surface. Learn more about GLUTTONY: https://social.bsidesmunich.org/?p=115 #BSidesMunich, #7SYNshttps://2023.bsidesmunich.org

  • SYN-of-the-week 4: Gluttony

    This week’s SYN-of-the-week is GLUTTONY. Gluttony is overindulging in digital assets and technologies fueled by fear of missing out thereby increasing the organization’s attack surface. One of the most common forms of gluttony today is over consumption of DATA. It has been 17 years since Clive Humby made the famous claim, “data is the new…

  • SYN-of-the-week 3: Wrath (Throwback Thursday)

    In their talk, “CrimeOps of the KashmirBlack Botnet”, Sarit Yarushalmi and Ofir Shaty show kind of complexity in a modern attacker that would make wrath-filled backlash useless. https://youtu.be/sw1A4mrZwT8 #7SYNs, #BSidesMunich23

  • SYN-of-the-week 3: Wrath (in meme)

    This week’s SYN of the week is WRATH. Find out more about WRATH’s weaknesses and consequences under: https://social.bsidesmunich.org/?p=95 #BSidesMunich23, #7SYNs

  • SYN-of-the-week 3: Wrath

    The third SYN-of-the-week is WRATH. Wrath is action taken in vengeance, often associated with an “eye for an eye” mentality. Wrath in the digital space can take on cyber-physical dimensions and/or have unintended, destructive consequences. An example of wrath at the individual level is swatting. Swatting is a form of criminal harassment where the aggressor…

  • SYN-of-the-week 2: Envy (Throwback Thursday)

    This week’s SYN-of-the-week is ENVY! Find out more about ENVY here: https://tinyurl.com/2fwf6n4c In our 2018 conference, Carl Schoeller predicted the impacts of AI in the space of social engineering in “Social Engineering and emerging multimedia technologies”. https://tinyurl.com/umtpccjd #BSidesMunich23, #7SYNs

  • SYN-of-the-week 2: Envy (in meme)

    The SYN-of-the-week is ENVY. Do a deep dive into envy here: https://social.bsidesmunich.org/?p=60 #BSidesMunich23, #7SYNshttps://2023.bsidesmunich.org

  • SYN-of-the-week 2: Envy

    This week’s SYN-of-the-week is ENVY. Envy is the pitfall of comparing your own commercial features to competitors’ and feeling jealous or resentful. This pressure to market leads to cutting corners in your own product such as neglecting security. The envy trap becomes more likely when a company sees existential threat from a competitor’s advancements. Are…