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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]