Cisco Takes Exclusivity Out of Cybersecurity

By Michele Guel Nearly 30 years ago, I attended the first of what would be hundreds of information security conferences throughout my career. I was astonished to be one of only a handful of females in a sea of men – our career goals were the same, but I had a steep climb compared to my male counterparts. […]

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Cisco Takes Exclusivity Out of Cybersecurity

By Michele Guel Nearly 30 years ago, I attended the first of what would be hundreds of information security conferences throughout my career. I was astonished to be one of only a handful of females in a sea of men – our career goals were the same, but I had a steep climb compared to my male counterparts. […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

“Cyber Conflict” Decoy Document Used In Real Cyber Conflict

By Talos Group This post was authored by Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura INTRODUCTION Cisco Talos discovered a new malicious campaign from the well known actor Group 74 (aka Tsar Team, Sofacy, APT28, Fancy Bear…). Ironically the decoy document is a flyer concerning the Cyber Conflict U.S. conference organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence on 7-8 November 2017 […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

“Cyber Conflict” Decoy Document Used In Real Cyber Conflict

By Talos Group This post was authored by Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura INTRODUCTION Cisco Talos discovered a new malicious campaign from the well known actor Group 74 (aka Tsar Team, Sofacy, APT28, Fancy Bear…). Ironically the decoy document is a flyer concerning the Cyber Conflict U.S. conference organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence on 7-8 November 2017 […]

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Ransomware – What it is, how to avoid it and what to do if it gets you

By Stacy Cannady Ransomware has been all over the news since 2015. You’d think we would all know how to deal with it and the fad would be dying by now. Well, that’s what I would think. It turns out that ransomware generates a lot of cash for criminals, an estimated $1 billion in 2016. It also has […]

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Ransomware – What it is, how to avoid it and what to do if it gets you

By Stacy Cannady Ransomware has been all over the news since 2015. You’d think we would all know how to deal with it and the fad would be dying by now. Well, that’s what I would think. It turns out that ransomware generates a lot of cash for criminals, an estimated $1 billion in 2016. It also has […]

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Architecting a More Secure Future

By Ron Zalkind The new age of innovation is providing a level of convenience and technological advancements that were once unfathomable. But with every breakthrough comes challenges, and more precisely these days, security challenges. We, in the security industry, are constantly faced with new threats emerging from vectors that didn’t even exist yesterday. Enterprise Security vs. Consumer Convenience […]

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Architecting a More Secure Future

By Ron Zalkind The new age of innovation is providing a level of convenience and technological advancements that were once unfathomable. But with every breakthrough comes challenges, and more precisely these days, security challenges. We, in the security industry, are constantly faced with new threats emerging from vectors that didn’t even exist yesterday. Enterprise Security vs. Consumer Convenience […]

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Google PDFium Tiff Code Execution

By Talos Group Overview Talos is disclosing a single off-by-one read/write vulnerability found in the TIFF image decoder functionality of PDFium as used in Google Chrome up to and including version 60.0.3112.101. Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser today and a specially crafted PDF could trigger the vulnerability resulting in memory corruption, possible information leak, […]

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Google PDFium Tiff Code Execution

By Talos Group Overview Talos is disclosing a single off-by-one read/write vulnerability found in the TIFF image decoder functionality of PDFium as used in Google Chrome up to and including version 60.0.3112.101. Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser today and a specially crafted PDF could trigger the vulnerability resulting in memory corruption, possible information leak, […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice