DNSChanger Outbreak Linked to Adware Install Base

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By Veronica Valeros [Ed. note: This post was authored by Veronica Valeros , Ross Gibb , Eric Hulse, and Martin Rehak ] Late last autumn, the detector described in one of our previous posts, Cognitive Research: Learning Detectors of Malicious Network Traffic , started to pick up a handful of infected hosts exhibiting a new kind of malware behavior. Initially, the number of infections were quite low, and nothing had drawn particular attention to the findings. Recently, this changed when we observed a significant uptake in the number of infections during the first few weeks of 2016. These […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

DNSChanger Outbreak Linked to Adware Install Base

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By Veronica Valeros [Ed. note: This post was authored by Veronica Valeros , Ross Gibb , Eric Hulse, and Martin Rehak ] Late last autumn, the detector described in one of our previous posts, Cognitive Research: Learning Detectors of Malicious Network Traffic , started to pick up a handful of infected hosts exhibiting a new kind of malware behavior. Initially, the number of infections were quite low, and nothing had drawn particular attention to the findings. Recently, this changed when we observed a significant uptake in the number of infections during the first few weeks of 2016. These […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Built-In Security: Sharing the ‘How’

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By Anthony Grieco I work with a lot of customers discussing how they can reduce their cyber risk and increase resiliency with an effective security strategy. It’s easy to talk about leading practices for security, but figuring out how to put them into practice can be a whole other story. As I mentioned in a recent post , the Security and Trust team is headed to CiscoLive Berlin with the goal of sharing real and actionable security practices that are designed to be taken […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Built-In Security: Sharing the ‘How’

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By Anthony Grieco I work with a lot of customers discussing how they can reduce their cyber risk and increase resiliency with an effective security strategy. It’s easy to talk about leading practices for security, but figuring out how to put them into practice can be a whole other story. As I mentioned in a recent post , the Security and Trust team is headed to CiscoLive Berlin with the goal of sharing real and actionable security practices that are designed to be taken […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice