When asked what personal email you use, most will immediately reply with Gmail, Facebook Mail, or Yahoo Mail while a select few of us will admit to using Microsoft Hotmail. Why? Speculation would be that it is because Hotmail is viewed as “old” and “klunky”. But that is pure speculation.

Whereas early social engineering efforts convinced someone to provide a password or other information via a convincing phone call or conversation, today’s social engineering efforts are fare more nefarious, as evidenced in great detail within the recently published report: Shadows in the Cloud: Investigating Espionage 2.0.

Often we talk about how destination port is not an accurate classification for controlling network traffic. At this point, hopefully that is obvious. Everyone knows that just about anything can get out of an enterprise network via port 80 or 443. Lately I have had several discussions with customers curious about protocol validation and ensuring [...]