Combatting Cybercrime with an Incident Response Plan
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...
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Malicious Microsoft Office Documents Move Beyond InkPicture
In late August we began to detect malicious Microsoft Word documents that contained VisualBasic (VB) macro code and the code appeared to be triggering when the document was opened. However, the documents did not contain any of the standard events used
Evolving Security Disclosures : The New OASIS Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF) Technical Committee
During the last few years we have witnessed how the cyber security threat landscape has evolved. The emergence of the Internet of Things combined with recent events have profoundly changed how we protect our systems and people, and drive us to think
Vulnerability Spotlight: Hopper Disassembler ELF Section Header Size Code Execution
Vulnerability Discovered by Tyler Bohan and Cory Duplantis of Cisco Talos Talos has identified an exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the ELF Section Header parsing functionality of Hopper (TALOS-2016-0222/CVE-2016-8390). Hopper is a
Vulnerability Spotlight: Foxit PDF Reader JBIG2 Parser Information Disclosure
Vulnerability discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Talos. Talos has identified an information disclosure vulnerability in Foxit PDF Reader (TALOS-2016-0201/CVE-2016-8334). A wrongly bounded call to `memcpy`, while parsing jbig2 segments within a PDF
Combating Email Spoofing with Cisco Email Security Forged Email Detection
In April we covered the description of Email Spoofing using Microsoft Outlook, but what about detecting and mitigating it on the Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)? There are multiple technologies that have attempted to address the issues surrounding spoofed
On or Off the Clock, Staying Cyber Secure is a New Fact of Life
On or Off the Clock, Staying Cyber Secure is a New Fact of Life Cybersecurity has always been a major concern for workplace networks. But, increasingly, it is top of...
Lessons Learned from Testing Cisco EST Implementations for Interoperability with DigiCert
Thanks to DigiCert for their contributions co-authoring this post. Interoperability for technology solutions is a top priority—standards used in these solutions become irrelevant when products operate in a silo. Thus, shifting to a new protocol in any
NSCAM: Tips from Talos for End-Users
As groups around the world continue the conversation around cybersecurity – we’re at the midway point of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (#NCSAM) in the U.S. and European Cyber Security...
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