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 […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Talos Group Responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities is a key aspect of security research. Often, the difficulty in responsible disclosure is balancing competing interests – assisting a vendor with patching their product and notifying the general public to prevent a 0-day situation. It is uncomfortable to acknowledge that if a white hat team has discovered a vulnerability in […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Talos Group Responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities is a key aspect of security research. Often, the difficulty in responsible disclosure is balancing competing interests – assisting a vendor with patching their product and notifying the general public to prevent a 0-day situation. It is uncomfortable to acknowledge that if a white hat team has discovered a vulnerability in […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Shelly Giesbrecht October was National Cyber Security Awareness month and there’s been a lot of talk about how organizations should be doing more to protect their networks. One of the current trends in cyber security is that organizations are increasingly turning to trusted partners like Cisco for some or all of their incident response capability. As a […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Shelly Giesbrecht October was National Cyber Security Awareness month and there’s been a lot of talk about how organizations should be doing more to protect their networks. One of the current trends in cyber security is that organizations are increasingly turning to trusted partners like Cisco for some or all of their incident response capability. As a […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Talos Group This post authored by Nick Biasini Talos is constantly monitoring the threat landscape including the email threat landscape. Lately this landscape has been dominated with Locky distribution. During a recent Locky vacation Talos noticed an interesting shift in file types being used to distribute another well known malware family, Fareit. We’ve discussed Fareit before, it’s […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Talos Group This post authored by Nick Biasini Talos is constantly monitoring the threat landscape including the email threat landscape. Lately this landscape has been dominated with Locky distribution. During a recent Locky vacation Talos noticed an interesting shift in file types being used to distribute another well known malware family, Fareit. We’ve discussed Fareit before, it’s […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Gavin Reid 5 First Steps to Defending against IoT Driven DDoS Attacks In honor of October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, users of Twitter, Netflix, Reddit and the New York Times were treated to a special treat – and just in time for Halloween. Unfortunately it was more of a trick as users of these and other major […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Gavin Reid 5 First Steps to Defending against IoT Driven DDoS Attacks In honor of October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, users of Twitter, Netflix, Reddit and the New York Times were treated to a special treat – and just in time for Halloween. Unfortunately it was more of a trick as users of these and other major […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By David C. Stuart Today’s digital economy is growing at a phenomenal rate. All modes of commerce from entertainment to finance and retail have moved on-line. You name it; there is an on-line business for it. Not only does selling occur on-line, businesses run their operations online and virtually with cloud-based providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, […]
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