RSA Wrap Up: It’s All About The People

RSA 2019 just finished and -- as always -- what a week it was. This year was a personal milestone for me, with the week culminating in my presentation with Gary Hayslip, CISO at WebRoot, titled: “Why the Role of the CISO Sucks and What We Should Do about It.” But, before we get to Friday morning ...

Carbon Black Cybersecurity Experts to Present in 4 Sessions at RSA 2019

We hope you’ll join Carbon Black at one of the company’s four presentations at RSA 2019. And don’t forget the company will also host a book launch and advanced signing of “Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America’s First Cyber Spy,” with Carbon Black’s National Security Strategist and...

What to Expect at RSA 2019

Attending RSAC 2019? The week promises to be full of exciting content, useful connections, networking and insights into new security trends. BSides San Francisco The week will start on March 3rd with the amazing BSides event. The BSides community has continuously raised the bar and put the INFO...

How to Secure Your Mid-Size Organization From the Next Cyber Attack

If you are responsible for the cybersecurity of a medium-sized company, you may assume your organization is too small to be targeted. Well, think again. While the major headlines tend to focus on large enterprises getting breached – such as Sony, Equifax, or Target the actual reality is that smal...

A Chief Security Concern for Executive Teams

Virtually all companies like to say they take their customers' privacy and security seriously, make it a top priority, blah blah. But you'd be forgiven if you couldn't tell this by studying the executive leadership page of each company's Web site. That's because very few of the world's biggest...

Beers with Talos EP 43: Espionage, Encryption, and CISO Square One

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 43 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Ep. 43 show notes: Recorded Dec. 7, 2018. Several of us are under the weather, but the show must go on. We did our best, as alway...

CISO series: Strengthen your organizational immune system with cybersecurity hygiene

One of the things I love about my job is the time I get to spend with security professionals, learning firsthand about the challenges of managing security strategy and implementation day to day. There are certain themes that come up over and over in these conversations. My colleague Ken Malcolmso...

Partner Perspectives: Endpoint Phishing Incident Response with Cofense Intelligence and Cb Response

Mike Saurbaugh is the Director of Technical Alliances for Cofense. Hunting Phished Endpoints with Cofense Intelligence™ and Carbon Black Ransomware, business email compromise BEC, malware infections and credential-based theft all primarily stem from a single vector of compromise - phishing...

CISO series: Build in security from the ground up with Azure enterprise

As an executive security advisor at Microsoft and a former CISO, I meet with other CISOs every week to discuss cybersecurity, cloud architecture, and sometimes everything under the sun regarding technology. During these discussions with CISOs and other senior security executives of large...

Network Security Monitoring vs Supply Chain Backdoors

On October 4, 2018, Bloomberg published a story titled “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies,” with a subtitle “The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according t...

Cloud Migration Fundamentals: Overcoming Barriers to App Security [Infographic]

As more organizations move to the cloud, the line of responsibility in securing applications can become rather blurred. The concept of control has historically rested in physical location and ownership. With the move to the cloud, however, the idea of security by proxy is changing and so should o...

The Gartner CISO Playbook: Leveraging Effective Control in the Cloud

For as long as we can remember, the concept of control has rested comfortably in physical location and ownership. It’s simple, if you could see something or you knew exactly where it was, it would be easier to assume that you’d have some measure of control over its security. With the move to the...

RiskySPN - Detect And Abuse Risky SPNs

RiskySPNs is a collection of PowerShell scripts focused on detecting and abusing accounts associated with SPNs Service Principal Name. This module can assist blue teams to identify potentially risky SPNs as well as red teams to escalate privileges by leveraging Kerberos and Active Directory. For...

Auth0 Glitch Allows Attackers to Launch Phishing Attacks

UPDATE Researchers are warning of a glitch in the Auth0 identity-as-a-service offering, which could allow bad actors to spoof a legitimate website and collect sensitive information from visitors. Researchers at Imperva on Tuesday found that the subdomain names of Auth0 are susceptible to security...

CISO Forum and the problems of Vulnerability Databases

Last Tuesday, April 24, I was at "CISO FORUM 2020: glance to the future". I presented there my report "Vulnerability Databases: sifting thousands tons of verbal ore". In this post, I'll briefly talk about this report and about the event itself. My speech was the last in the program. At the same...

NIST Cybersecurity Framework Series Part 5: Recover

The best way to stop a cyber attack is to prevent it from taking place in the first place. While this is certainly true, the level of sophistication and persistence seen among today's hackers can often negate this strategy. A proactive approach to data security is an absolute must, but chief...

Investing in the right innovation

RSA is around the corner which means tens of thousands of people will descend on Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Hundreds of innovative young companies will look for customers, props, and capital especially at the Early Stage Expo!. Venture capitalists will look for opportunities to invest a...

Physician, protect thyself: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

In part one of our Physician, protect thyself series, we recognized significant security problems within the healthcare industry that need addressing. Health organizations moving from the paper to the 'puter—a shift meant to improve care and overall patient experience—inadvertently introduced...

DLink DIR-601 - Admin Password Disclosure

Exploit Title: DLink DIR-601 Unauthenticated Admin password disclosure Google Dork: N/A Date: 12/24/2017 Exploit Author: Kevin Randall Vendor Homepage: https://www.dlink.com Software Link: N/A Version: Firmware: 2.02NA Hardware Version B1 Tested on: Windows 10 + Mozilla Firefox CVE : CVE-2018-570...

DLink DIR-601 - Admin Password Disclosure

DLink DIR-601 - Admin Password Disclosure Exploit Title: DLink DIR-601 Unauthenticated Admin password disclosure Google Dork: N/A Date: 12/24/2017 Exploit Author: Kevin Randall Vendor Homepage: https://www.dlink.com Software Link: N/A Version: Firmware: 2.02NA Hardware Version B1 Tested on: Windo...