McAfee ATR Thinks in Graphs | McAfee Blogs

ARCHIVED STORY McAfee ATR Thinks in Graphs By Valentine Mairet · MAR 08, 2021 · 19 MIN READ 0. Introduction John Lambert, a distinguished researcher specializing in threat intelligence at Microsoft, once said these words that changed perspectives: “Defenders think in lists. Attackers think in...

Talkin’ SMAC: Alert Labeling and Why It Matters

If you’ve ever worked in a Security Operations Center SOC, you know that it’s a special place. Among other things, the SOC is a massive data-labeling machine, and generates some of the most valuable data in the cybersecurity industry. Unfortunately, much of this valuable data is often rendered...

Recent enhancements for Microsoft Power Platform governance

An emerging trend in digital transformation efforts has been the rise of low-code development platforms. Of course, these low-code platforms must be grounded in best-of-breed governance capabilities which include security and compliance features. Without strong governance, the full benefits of...

Recon Simplified with Spyse

One of the major struggles in bug bounty hunting is to collect and analyze data during reconnaissance, especially when there are a lot of tools around but very few that offer actually useful results. The job of eliminating false positives and unrelated data from your recon becomes harder as the...

MSPs, have you picked the right PSA for you yet?

Not long ago, we helped MSPs pick the right remote monitoring and management RMM platform for them, and make it an essential part of their service toolkit. As you may recall, an RMM is a tool that helps MSPs do the work. And what better way to track the work—and other elements associated with...

SAP Business Information Warehouse SQL Injection Vulnerability

SAP Business Information Warehouse SAP BW is a data warehouse for collecting and tabulating information in an enterprise environment from SAP Germany. The software is an enterprise-wide information center for data analysis from R / 3 and other business applications, including databases and extern...

Key layers for developing a Smarter SOC with CyberProof-managed Microsoft Azure security services

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA guest blog series. Learn more about MISA here. Security teams are struggling to reduce the time to detect and respond to threats due to the complexity and volume of alerts being generated from multiple security...

Password choice

Introduction We’ve been advocates of regular password auditing for years. Over that time, we’ve noticed that password choice is not only very personal, but hugely influenced by current events, trends, and even what’s sat on your desk. Its given us a unique opportunity to see these common influenc...

JVN#00414047: Studyplus App uses a hard-coded API key for an external service

Studyplus App provided by Studyplus Inc. uses a hard-coded API key for an external service CWE-798. Impact API key for an external service may be obtained by analyzing data in the app. Note that a user is not directly affected by this vulnerability. Solution Update the Application Update the...

Mining Splunk's Internal Logs

Splunk is great about logging its warnings and errors, but it wont tell you about them - you have to ask! As the leading machine-generated data analysis software, its not surprising that Splunk excels at creating robust logs. The current version of Splunk Enterprise v 8.05 generates 22 different...

The Internet did my homework

By Jaeson Schultz and Matt Valites. As students return to school for in-person and virtual learning, Cisco Talos discovered an increase in DNS requests coming into Umbrella resolving domains we classify as "academic fraud." Data from Pew Research on back-to-school dates aligns with the growth we...

The TLS 1.2 Deadline is Looming, Do You Have Your Act Together?

In the pantheon of security configuration duties for organizations running internet assets, maintaining the latest TLS encryption protocols to keep the cryptographic apparatus at full strength is one of the most fundamental. TLS provides cover for the most sensitive personal and financial...

Long Tail Analysis: A New Hope in the Cybercrime Battle

Our hyper-connected world and its ever-faster network speeds have resulted in mountains of diverse data that needs to be processed. It has also resulted in an ever-expanding attack surface, requiring cybersecurity solutions to scale like never before. These days, scale is about more than traffic...

Analyzing the Effects of COVID-19 on mPulse Traffic

The events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and in particular various social-distancing measures quarantine, shelter in place, etc., have had an impact on people's lives and routines across the world. As internet usage is a large part of those routines, we wanted to see how usage changed as the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: wireshark-3.2.3-1.fc31

Wireshark allows you to examine protocol data stored in files or as it is captured from wired or wireless WiFi or Bluetooth networks, USB devices, and many other sources. It supports dozens of protocol capture file formats and understands more than a thousand protocols. It has many powerful...

Free import of AWS CloudTrail logs through June 2020 and other exciting Azure Sentinel updates

SecOps teams are increasingly challenged to protect assets across distributed environments, analyze the growing volume of security data, and prioritize response to real threats. As a cloud-native SIEM solution security information and event management, Azure Sentinel uses artificial intelligence ...

Imperva Launches the Cyber Threat Index

Today, we are proud to announce the launch of the Cyber Threat Index, a new online information portal from the minds of our threat researchers at Imperva Research Labs. The current Cyber Threat Index is 776. This is categorized as High and is up 8 percent since December. But what is the Cyber...

Nfstream - A Flexible Network Data Analysis Framework

nfstream is a Python package providing fast, flexible, and expressive data structures designed to make working with online or offline network data both easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for doing practical, real world network data analysis in Python...

How we Developed a Unified Binary Store (UBS): Part 2

As you may have seen in Part One of this blog, one of our engineering teams at VMware Carbon Black was tasked with building a Unified Binary Store UBS that would increase operational efficiencies and serve as a centralized source of data across products. We were able to build the platform in thre...

How we Developed a Unified Binary Store (UBS): Part 1

Like most technology companies, VMware Carbon Black has a combination of acquired and built technologies that all utilize their own data stores. As our products have evolved to include the benefits of a centralized cloud offering, our data stores needed to similarly evolve. A new goal was formed:...