Key 2016 Cybersecurity Trends
summary
A tour of recent cybercrime finds a Tor marketplace selling credit cards, RDP and email access, and surprising “Al” accounts; a bespoke simple social engineering tracker sends scam versions to ~2,000 people over three months and records hits: 217 resume clicks, 194 dodgy-link clicks, 116 Amazon, 304 payment-advice, 19 on “do you even click” subjects. Office documents with macros and old 2012 exploits remain effective, and mobile app analysis of 1,002 apps 306 failing TLS exposes leaked API keys and MD5 usage — disable macros where possible.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:45People cling to old ideas
- 2:38Cybercrime in Australia
- 3:12Cybercrime on the Dark Web
- 5:11User Expectations
- 7:08Experiment
- 7:32Results
- 10:27Documentbased malware
- 12:55Macros
- 13:40Internet of Things
- 13:57Consumer Trust
- 14:22Happy Day English
- 15:22Top 2000 Apps
- 15:53Twitter API Keys
- 16:15Conclusion
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