By Talos Group This post was authored by Warren Mercer & Edmund Brumaghin Summary We had .locky, we had .odin and then we had .zepto but today we hit rock bottom and we now have Locky using .shit as their encrypted file extension. In today’s latest wave of spam, Talos has observed three distinct spam campaigns distributing the […]
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By Anthony Grieco The Internet of Things (IoT) era is here: Nearly two-thirds of organizations currently collect data from equipment, devices or other connected endpoints and use it for a business purpose, according to survey findings from 451 Research. The most common sources of IoT data are equipment related to data center IT operations (as cited by 51 […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Anthony Grieco The Internet of Things (IoT) era is here: Nearly two-thirds of organizations currently collect data from equipment, devices or other connected endpoints and use it for a business purpose, according to survey findings from 451 Research. The most common sources of IoT data are equipment related to data center IT operations (as cited by 51 […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Jan Kohout This post was authored by Jan Kohout, Veronica Valeros and Petr Somol. Increasing adoption of encryption in web communication significantly contributes to protection of users‘ privacy. However, it also brings tough challenges for intrusion detection systems that need to analyze the traffic without actually decrypting it. There is not much information left in encrypted web […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Jan Kohout This post was authored by Jan Kohout, Veronica Valeros and Petr Somol. Increasing adoption of encryption in web communication significantly contributes to protection of users‘ privacy. However, it also brings tough challenges for intrusion detection systems that need to analyze the traffic without actually decrypting it. There is not much information left in encrypted web […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Ashley Arbuckle Most C-suite leaders think about cybersecurity as a way to stop threats. But in today’s intensely competitive digital economy they should be thinking about cybersecurity as a strategic advantage that not only protects business value, but enables new business value. The prevailing focus on threats to protect business value isn’t surprising. Modern digital businesses go […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Ashley Arbuckle Most C-suite leaders think about cybersecurity as a way to stop threats. But in today’s intensely competitive digital economy they should be thinking about cybersecurity as a strategic advantage that not only protects business value, but enables new business value. The prevailing focus on threats to protect business value isn’t surprising. Modern digital businesses go […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Talos Group This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin Summary Ransomware has become increasingly prevalent in the industry, and in many cases, unless there is a publicly released decryptor available, there is often not an easy means of retrieving encrypted files once a system has been infected. In addition to the creation and maintenance of regular system […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Talos Group This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin Summary Ransomware has become increasingly prevalent in the industry, and in many cases, unless there is a publicly released decryptor available, there is often not an easy means of retrieving encrypted files once a system has been infected. In addition to the creation and maintenance of regular system […]
Source:: Cisco Security Notice
By Sean Mason Based on the cybersecurity news proliferating in the mainstream media today – from ransomware incidents to data breaches of massive proportions – it has become clear that organizations need to put security mechanisms in place to protect their IT infrastructure. Organizations commonly use anti-virus, firewall, intrusion prevention and other security technologies to protect themselves; but […]
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