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That sort of money buys cyber criminals a lot of resources.\u00a0 It\u2019s no surprise then that cybercrime has its own support industries.<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t need to access the “Darknet” to purchase hacker tools.\u00a0 Many are commercially available (you can even buy them on Amazon!) and\u00a0 have a thin veneer of respectability.\u00a0 For example, they advertise themselves as security tools designed to check for vulnerabilities.\u00a0 Your purchase comes with support, manual, video tutorials and forums.\u00a0 There are even organised user groups that share tips and tricks, much like legitimate products.<\/p>\n
Internationally there is a trend to use some of these applications during a breach.\u00a0 Kinetics has taken that information and developed a customised alert to warn us when we see these.\u00a0 All MS-Windows workstations, laptops and servers that are covered under KARE Ready Reaction, Core Fundamentals or Premium KARE<\/a> now have this alert running on them.\u00a0 This alert service is supplied as part of our commitment to continuous improvement.<\/p>\n In addition, our KARE For Security<\/a>\u00a0clients who have taken up our “Managed Firewall” uplift option now have an additional block using\u00a0 a “known website” tool.<\/p>\n It’s important to remember that there are many tools available to hackers.\u00a0 There is no single action that is going to supply full protection.\u00a0 The more experienced the hacker, and the better resourced they or their support group are, then the more likely that they have alternative tools available to them.\u00a0 But the harder we make it for them, the more likely they will be to move onto an easier pay day.<\/p>\n Kinetics will shortly be offering further new tools for securing your business, your cloud and your users as we continue to rise to the security challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cyber-crime is estimated to earn criminals US$7 Trillion a year That sort of money buys cyber criminals a lot of resources.\u00a0 It\u2019s no surprise then that cybercrime has its own support industries. You don\u2019t need to access the “Darknet” to purchase hacker tools.\u00a0 Many are commercially available (you can even buy them on Amazon!) and\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[header2 text=\"Cyber-crime is estimated to earn criminals US$7 Trillion a year<\/strong>\" align=\"left\" color=\"#3ec940\" margintop=\"\"]\n\nThat sort of money buys cyber criminals a lot of resources.\u00a0 It\u2019s no surprise then that cybercrime has its own support industries.\n\nYou don\u2019t need to access the \"Darknet\" to purchase hacker tools.\u00a0 Many are commercially available (you can even buy them on Amazon!) and\u00a0 have a thin veneer of respectability.\u00a0 For example, they advertise themselves as security tools designed to check for vulnerabilities.\u00a0 Your purchase comes with support, manual, video tutorials and forums.\u00a0 There are even organised user groups that share tips and tricks, much like legitimate products.\nLayers of Security<\/strong><\/h3>\n
We're looking out for these, for you<\/strong><\/h3>\nInternationally there is a trend to use some of these applications during a breach.\u00a0 Kinetics has taken that information and developed a customised alert to warn us when we see these.\u00a0 All MS-Windows workstations, laptops and servers that are covered under[wow_colorme] KARE Ready Reaction, Core Fundamentals or Premium KARE<\/a>[\/wow_colorme]\u00a0now have this alert running on them.\u00a0 This alert service is supplied as part of our commitment to continuous improvement.\n\nIn addition, our [wow_colorme]KARE For Security<\/a>[\/wow_colorme] clients who have taken up our \"Managed Firewall\" uplift option now have an additional block using\u00a0 a \"known website\" tool.\n
Layers of Security<\/strong><\/h3>\nIt's important to remember that there are many tools available to hackers.\u00a0 There is no single action that is going to supply full protection.\u00a0 The more experienced the hacker, and the better resourced they or their support group are, then the more likely that they have alternative tools available to them.\u00a0 But the harder we make it for them, the more likely they will be to move onto an easier pay day.\n\nKinetics will shortly be offering further new tools for securing your business, your cloud and your users as we continue to rise to the security challenge.<\/strong>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}