Security

Secure your Endpoints Against Ransomware: Introducing Malicious Activity Protection

Neil Patel
June 21, 2018 - 0 Comments

Dubbed by many as the “Year of Ransomware”, 2017 provided us with a very important and dangerous evolution to how these attacks make their way to your endpoints. The…

• Advanced Malware Protection
• AMP
• ransomware

My Little FormBook

Talos Group
June 20, 2018 - 0 Comments

Cisco Talos has been tracking a new campaign involving the FormBook malware since May 2018 that utilizes four different malicious documents in a single phishing email. FormBook is an inexpensive…

• FormBook
• malware
• Talos

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities In Insteon Hub PubNub

Talos Group
June 19, 2018 - 0 Comments

Cisco Talos is disclosing twelve new vulnerabilities in Insteon Hub, ranging from remote code execution, to denial of service. The majority of the vulnerabilities have their root cause in the…

• Insteon
• IoT
• Talos
• vulnerabilities

Thinking About a Cyber Career? Just Jump In

Ellie Daw
June 18, 2018 - 8 Comments

If you care about cyber security and you’re willing to work hard, we need you. Yes, YOU.

• cryptography
• cyber careers
• cybersecurity skills gap
• Ellie Daw
• Featured
• S&TO
• Women in Cyber

Threat Roundup for June 1-15

Talos Group
June 15, 2018 - 0 Comments

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between June 1 and June 15. As with previous round-ups, this post isn’t meant to be an…

• AMP
• coverage
• Threat Roundup
• ThreatGRID
• umbrella

Vulnerability Spotlight: TALOS-2018-0523-24 – Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pixars Renderman application

Talos Group
June 14, 2018 - 0 Comments

Talos is disclosing two denial-of-ervice vulnerabilities in Pixar’s Renderman application. Renderman is a rendering application used in animation and film production. It is widely used for advanced rendering and shading…

• 0-day
• vulndev
• vulnerability

Cisco’s Process for Fixed Software Release and Vulnerability Disclosure

Lou Ronnau
June 14, 2018 - 0 Comments

To minimize risk associated with vulnerabilities, Cisco employs a well-established and trusted process to disclose vulnerabilities, while taking every effort to minimize the overall impact to customers’ network operations.

• Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT)
• Cisco Security Vulnerability Policy

Vulnerability Spotlight: TALOS-2018-0545 – Microsoft wimgapi LoadIntegrityInfo Code Execution Vulnerability

Talos Group
June 13, 2018 - 0 Comments

Talos is disclosing a remote code execution vulnerability in the Microsoft wimgapi library. The wimgapi DLL is used in the Microsoft Windows operating system to perform operations on Windows Imaging…

• 0-day
• Microsoft
• vuldev
• vulnerability

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – June 2018

Talos Group
June 12, 2018 - 0 Comments

Microsoft released its monthly security advisories, including 50 flaws (11 of them “critical”) impacting Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Chakra Scripting Engine, Windows DNSAPI, Microsoft Office, Windows Kernel and more.

Cisco Stealthwatch and DNA Center bridge the SecOps – NetOps divide

Sandeep Agrawal
June 12, 2018 - 0 Comments

Three trends to watch in the increasingly interdependent roles of NetOps and SecOps: complexity of managing more devices, locations and users; automating across different functions; the impact on network assurance.

• Cisco DNA Center
• Cisco Stealthwatch
• security analytics