A Winning NGFW

By David C. Stuart Cisco Firepower NGFW recognized with Best of Interop 2016 Award for Security Each year at Interop, a group of the most influential IT practitioners, analysts and professionals vote on the technologies that are having “the most significant technical impact on their segment and are helping to move business technology forward.” Cisco took home top honors […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Making Friends By Proactive Notification

By Talos Group Talos has continued to observe ongoing attacks leveraging the use of JBoss exploits. Through our research efforts, we have identified an additional 600 or so compromised hosts which contain webshells due to adversaries compromising unpatched JBoss environments. In response to this, Talos has been working to notify victims of these compromised hosts so that appropriate […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Making Friends By Proactive Notification

By Talos Group Talos has continued to observe ongoing attacks leveraging the use of JBoss exploits. Through our research efforts, we have identified an additional 600 or so compromised hosts which contain webshells due to adversaries compromising unpatched JBoss environments. In response to this, Talos has been working to notify victims of these compromised hosts so that appropriate […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Multiple 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Discovered by Talos

By Talos Group 7-Zip is an open-source file archiving application which features optional AES-256 encryption, support for large files, and the ability to use “any compression, conversion or encryption method”. Recently Cisco Talos has discovered multiple exploitable vulnerabilities in 7-Zip. These type of vulnerabilities are especially concerning since vendors may not be aware they are using the affected […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Multiple 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Discovered by Talos

By Talos Group 7-Zip is an open-source file archiving application which features optional AES-256 encryption, support for large files, and the ability to use “any compression, conversion or encryption method”. Recently Cisco Talos has discovered multiple exploitable vulnerabilities in 7-Zip. These type of vulnerabilities are especially concerning since vendors may not be aware they are using the affected […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – May 2016

By Talos Group This post is authored by Holger Unterbrink. Patch Tuesday for May 2016 has arrived where Microsoft releases their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month’s release contains 16 bulletins addressing 33 vulnerabilities. Fourteen bulletins are rated critical, addressing vulnerabilities in Edge, Internet Explorer, Office, Graphic Components, VBScript, […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – May 2016

By Talos Group This post is authored by Holger Unterbrink. Patch Tuesday for May 2016 has arrived where Microsoft releases their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month’s release contains 16 bulletins addressing 33 vulnerabilities. Fourteen bulletins are rated critical, addressing vulnerabilities in Edge, Internet Explorer, Office, Graphic Components, VBScript, […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

The Formula One Approach to Security

By TK Keanini Many of today’s systems are built on telemetry, the automated gathering of remote data measurements to gain insights and manage performance and operations. One industry that has been quick to embrace telemetry is auto racing. At the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, Red Bull unleashed their multi-million-dollar car RB12, which is fitted with almost 100 sensors […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

The Formula One Approach to Security

By TK Keanini Many of today’s systems are built on telemetry, the automated gathering of remote data measurements to gain insights and manage performance and operations. One industry that has been quick to embrace telemetry is auto racing. At the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, Red Bull unleashed their multi-million-dollar car RB12, which is fitted with almost 100 sensors […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Angler Catches Victims Using Phish as Bait

By Talos Group This post authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Erick Galinkin. Exploit kits have been a recurring threat that we’ve discussed here on this blog as a method of driving users to maliciousness. Users typically encounter exploit kit landing pages through compromised websites and malvertising. However, we’ve found a new email twist to the standard […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice