BitCoin

February 4, 2019

INNOVATION

Blockchain is Much Bigger Than Bitcoin. Here’s How it Will Impact Vendor Financing.

4 min read

Blockchain has the ability to shape and reimagine vendor financing. I share more on how blockchain is not only impacting vendor financing, but other industries as well.

January 8, 2019

INNOVATION

The Potential of Blockchain for Network Engineers

2 min read

Let’s cut to the chase: Blockchain technology has the potential to radically improve network security. Pushing network analysis onto the network could validate data and make analysis more effective.

December 14, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Bitcoin Bomb Scare Associated with Sextortion Scammers

1 min read

This blog was written by Jaeson Schultz. Organizations across the country are on edge today after a flurry of phony bomb threats hit several public entities Thursday, such as universities,...

December 11, 2018

SECURITY

Cryptomining: A sheep or a wolf?

7 min read

One of, if not the, most prominent motivators for threat actors is money. Whether it’s botnet owners renting out their services for DDoS attacks, tech support scammers cold-calling people to...

October 31, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Anatomy of a sextortion scam

1 min read

By examining sextortion spam campaigns in detail, our researchers were able to understand how criminals operate, and to see why users were tricked into sending them bitcoin despite empty threats.

December 15, 2017

SECURITY

Cryptojacking: Hijacking your computer resources

3 min read

Your internet connection is slower than usual, your PC is also very slow, and you notice that your CPU fan is running faster when you are on a given website. All the above symptoms indicate that you could be a victim of cryptojacking. This is a new kind of menace in which malicious users or […]

September 14, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 18: Chris Riviere, Cisco

1 min read

Cloud security is the kind of topic that can make you sigh, shake your head, and quickly look for some other, less daunting project to deal with—no doubt about it. I mean honestly—what do you even define as “cloud” in your particular environment, and what constitutes “secure”? Is your only job to worry about your […]

March 28, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

In Search of The First Transaction

1 min read

At the height of an eventful week – Cloud and IoT developments, Open Source Think Tank,  Linux Foundation Summit – I learned about the fate of my fellow alumnus, an upperclassman as it were, the brilliant open source developer and crypto genius known for the first transaction on Bitcoin. Hal Finney is a Caltech graduate who went […]

January 31, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

Back to the Future: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

2 min read

As information consumers that depend so much on the Network or Cloud, we sometimes indulge in thinking what will happen when we really begin to feel the effects of Moore’s Law and Nielsen’s Law combined, at the edges: the amount of data and our ability to consume it (let alone stream it to the edge), is simply […]