How to protect against the most advanced email-based attacks

By Lindsay van Gemert With over 100 billion corporate emails exchanged each day, it’s no wonder that email remains a major threat vector. Organizations around the globe depend on email to quickly communicate and collaborate. And as long as organizations use email to send and receive files, communicate and interact, malicious files, links and attachments will continue to plague […]

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Samba Vulnerability: Dancing Its Way to a Network Near You

By Talos Group Overview Today, a new vulnerability affecting the widely used Samba software was released. Samba is the SMB/CIFS protocol commonly used in *NIX operating systems. CVE-2017-7494 has the potential to impact many systems around the world. This vulnerability could allow a user to upload a shared library to a writeable share on a vulnerable Samba server […]

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Samba Vulnerability: Dancing Its Way to a Network Near You

By Talos Group Overview Today, a new vulnerability affecting the widely used Samba software was released. Samba is the SMB/CIFS protocol commonly used in *NIX operating systems. CVE-2017-7494 has the potential to impact many systems around the world. This vulnerability could allow a user to upload a shared library to a writeable share on a vulnerable Samba server […]

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The light is green! But is it safe to go? Abusing users’ faith in HTTPS

By Joe Malenfant This post was authored by Anna Shirokova and Ivan Nikolaev John Smith had a lot of friends and liked to travel. One day he got an email that read: “Money has been sent to your PayPal account”. The sender appeared to be a person he met from recent trip to Cape Town. John Smith was curious and followed the link […]

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The light is green! But is it safe to go? Abusing users’ faith in HTTPS

By Joe Malenfant This post was authored by Anna Shirokova and Ivan Nikolaev John Smith had a lot of friends and liked to travel. One day he got an email that read: “Money has been sent to your PayPal account”. The sender appeared to be a person he met from recent trip to Cape Town. John Smith was curious and followed the link […]

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File2pcap – The Talos Swiss Army Knife of Snort Rule Creation

By Talos Group This post was authored by Martin Zeiser with contributions by Joel Esler At Talos we are constantly on the lookout for threats to our customers networks, and part of the protection process is creating Snort rules for the latest vulnerabilities in order to detect any attacks. To improve your understanding of the rule development process, consider […]

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File2pcap – The Talos Swiss Army Knife of Snort Rule Creation

By Talos Group This post was authored by Martin Zeiser with contributions by Joel Esler At Talos we are constantly on the lookout for threats to our customers networks, and part of the protection process is creating Snort rules for the latest vulnerabilities in order to detect any attacks. To improve your understanding of the rule development process, consider […]

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Can Your Organisation Be Breached? Find Out with a Red Team

By Paul Docherty Have you ever wondered about how the everyday information available on your network could compromise your entire organisation? I lead the Cisco Security Advisory Services team in EMEAR. We recently performed a “Red Team” exercise in which our client set us the objective of attempting to gain access to their client database. For the uninitiated: […]

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Can Your Organisation Be Breached? Find Out with a Red Team

By Paul Docherty Have you ever wondered about how the everyday information available on your network could compromise your entire organisation? I lead the Cisco Security Advisory Services team in EMEAR. We recently performed a “Red Team” exercise in which our client set us the objective of attempting to gain access to their client database. For the uninitiated: […]

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AMPlify your Security

By Lindsay van Gemert See how our customers are enhancing their security posture with AMP for Endpoints At Cisco we know that security teams are a critical piece of what’s possible in any organization and simplifying their job is of utmost importance to us. We believe that by allowing customers to see more, protect better and respond faster we […]

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