Zappos.com attack: Fallout and Feedback

“This, from Alan Hall, security expert and director at Solera Networks: “Without full visibility of the entire attack, organizations can only guess or assume that all records were taken and then address their response to the full extent of possible damage — 24M in this case. An appropriate response includes more detail of ‘how did they get in, where did they go and what was accessed, seen, and removed from the network?’”

FBI Official Warns of Growing ‘Existential’ Cyber Threats

“Despite the increased frequency and severity of online crime and espionage in 2011, many American corporations and consumers are still not taking the threat seriously,…”

No Shelter From a Cybercrime Storm

“It is indeed possible to stop even determined hackers, suggested Andrew Brandt, director of threat research at Solera Networks Research.

“It just takes a guard or team of guards, equipped with the right tools to get the job done, and an equal or greater degree of determination, to stop them,” he told TechNewsWorld.”

Multifunctional malware, staged drive-by attacks to rise in 2012

“Andrew Brandt, Solera’s director of Threat Research, urges Mozilla Firefox users to keep their plug-ins updated and install NoScript to stop the onslaught of drive-by attacks using malicious JavaScript.”

QR Code Malware Picks Up Steam

“Much like URL-shortening services can be and are used maliciously because of the fact that they obscure the real target URL, QR codes can also be used for such deception,” says Joe Levy, CTO of Solera Networks.”

App And Database Security: Two Halves Of A Whole

“The days of static content Web sites are a distant memory, and every Web site or Web-based application today is back-ended by some kind of database, whether it’s your bank, your cloud CRM service, your mobile device’s app-store, your favorite online shopping site, or your photo collection and blog,” says Joe Levy, CTO of Solera Networks.”

SCADA hack shut down a US water plant

“Andrew Brandt, director of research for Solera Networks Research Labs, told V3 that German engineering conglomerate Siemens’ SCADA system is something of a honey pot for hackers and that once inside it they would find a “soft centre” that let them easily take control.”

Flood of Filth Turns Facebook News Feeds Into Open Sewers

“Other possible causes are rogue applications “that have quietly collected personal information, or … a diversion based on something bigger going on,” Andrew Brandt, director of Solera Networks’ Threat Labs, told TechNewsWorld.”

FBI, Security Vendors Partner to Take Down Hacker Consortium

“In addition to running the infrastructure that powered this operation that eventually netted the crooks $14 million, DNSChanger also helped revolutionize the malware world, says Andrew Brandt, malware analysis expert and director of Threat Research at forensics and network security analytics firm, Solera Networks.”

No Duqu zero-day patch yet, but Microsoft offers workaround

“Andrew Brandt, director of threat research at South Jordan, Utah-based network security analytics provider Solera Networks Inc., said it will be critical that businesses and individual users apply the patch for the kernel-level zero-day vulnerability once Microsoft releases it.”