Beware of disgruntled employees

Hactivists, and others intent on sabotage such as disgruntled employees, are expanding their tactics beyond Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. So warns Dell SecureWorks’ Enterprise Brand and Executive Threat Surveillance team . The IT firm Dell says that its team is monitoring social media sites, forums, and other public information sources, looking for conversations and other indicators that a customer’s brand or its executives might be the target of a cyber-attack. The team has worked on numerous cases where they have obtained solid intelligence of a planned attack.