FIPS and Deterministic ECDSA: Achieving robust security and conformance

By Panos Kampanakis Digital signatures are used to verify the authenticity of a message. For example, when a message is signed, the verifier can rest assured that only the signer could have signed it. ECDSA and DSA are two widely used, standardized digital signature schemes. In order to sign a message, internally both of them require the use […]

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Cisco Signs on with Privacy Shield

By Michelle Dennedy As I blogged in July of this year, Cisco supports protecting and enabling the international flow of personal data that furthers a progressive economy. To that end, we received official word that we are loud, proud, and on the list for the Privacy Shield – the voluntary, self-certification framework for EU-US data transfer. Why is […]

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Cisco Signs on with Privacy Shield

By Michelle Dennedy As I blogged in July of this year, Cisco supports protecting and enabling the international flow of personal data that furthers a progressive economy. To that end, we received official word that we are loud, proud, and on the list for the Privacy Shield – the voluntary, self-certification framework for EU-US data transfer. Why is […]

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Customer-focused Incident Response Service

By Matt Aubert In our highly connected business environments, the need to respond to the inevitable security breach is on the minds of every CISO. An increasing number of organizations rely on the services of a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. According to the Cisco 2016 Annual Security Report, 42 percent of surveyed companies outsourced incident response, […]

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Customer-focused Incident Response Service

By Matt Aubert In our highly connected business environments, the need to respond to the inevitable security breach is on the minds of every CISO. An increasing number of organizations rely on the services of a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. According to the Cisco 2016 Annual Security Report, 42 percent of surveyed companies outsourced incident response, […]

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Project FIRST: Share Knowledge, Speed up Analysis

By Talos Group Project FIRST is lead by Angel M. Villegas. This post is authored by Holger Unterbrink. Talos is pleased to announce the release of the Function Identification and Recovery Signature Tool (FIRST). It is an open-source framework that allows sharing of knowledge about similar functions used across file types that IDA Pro can analyze. The aim […]

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Project FIRST: Share Knowledge, Speed up Analysis

By Talos Group Project FIRST is lead by Angel M. Villegas. This post is authored by Holger Unterbrink. Talos is pleased to announce the release of the Function Identification and Recovery Signature Tool (FIRST). It is an open-source framework that allows sharing of knowledge about similar functions used across file types that IDA Pro can analyze. The aim […]

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To be Effective, Security Needs to Play Well with Others

By Jason Lamar Effective security is simple, open, and automated. In the last blog, I described several efforts by Cisco to pursue simplicity. Now let’s talk about how we are executing on the open part. Openness is about playing well with others. As a kid I heard it from my parents, and now I find myself saying it […]

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To be Effective, Security Needs to Play Well with Others

By Jason Lamar Effective security is simple, open, and automated. In the last blog, I described several efforts by Cisco to pursue simplicity. Now let’s talk about how we are executing on the open part. Openness is about playing well with others. As a kid I heard it from my parents, and now I find myself saying it […]

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Cerber Spam: Tor All the Things!

By Talos Group This post authored by Nick Biasini and Edmund Brumaghin with contributions from Sean Baird and Andrew Windsor. Executive Summary Talos is continuously analyzing email based malware always looking at how adversaries change and the new techniques that are being added on an almost constant basis. Recently we noticed some novel ways that adversaries are leveraging […]

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