ThreatList: Top Summer DDoS Trends

On Tuesday, Akamai released a report on the year’s biggest distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. The report illustrates how this time-tested attack method continues to morph and adopt new tricks, and discusses trends to watch as we move into the summer months. According to the study, Summer...

Summer SOTI - Web Attacks

Continuing Changes Welcome to the second blog post for the Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security. If you've read the SOTI / Security report before, much of what you see here should be familiar, though the time frame we're looking at is the six months from November 2017 to April 2018, inste...

Building a Profitable Security Services Offering

Security is the number one concern of business owners today. This isn’t surprising, with all of the hacks, breaches, data thefts, ransomware attacks and privacy violations that we hear about on a daily basis. And those are just the ones we know about – according to the Online Trust Alliance’s OTA...

Sit-down with Wallarm CTO, Alex Golovko

I have had a chance to pose a few questions to Alexander Golovko, one of the co-founders of Wallarm and our CTO. Here are Alex’s reflections on Wallarm and some technology trends. How did Wallarm get its start? Ivan Wallarm’s founder has involved me in various projects on and off since 2010. By...

New State of Online Retail Performance Report Available

It's springtime, and the only people with the holidays on their minds are in the retail business. This holiday season was a record-breaking one, with combined revenue for Black Friday and Cyber Monday alone exceeding $11.5 billion. To build on that momentum, smart retailers will take a closer loo...

bbop.forest-trends.org XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-591764 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| bbop.forest-trends.org Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

This Week in Security News: Trends and Tea Parties

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the U.S. official in charge of election security was replaced, Trend Micro hosted a tea party in rural Taiwan, and a new cryptocurrency mino...

VIDEO: Cybersecurity Trends: A Look Back on 2017 and Key Predictions for 2018

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on BizTechMagazine.com. The security landscape is constantly changing and 2017 had some major sea changes for IT on the security front. BizTech Magazine spoke with Rick McElroy and Paul Drapeau from Carbon Black to get their take on what the notable...

A week in security (January 29 – February 04)

Last week on Labs, we looked into PUPs stealing and using mainstream logos of security and tech companies to further gain user trust, GandCrab and Scarab ransomware variants in the wild, and a new Mac malware called OSX.CreativeUpdater that can be distributed via MacUpdate. We also profiled...

IGF proves the value of bottom-up, multi-stakeholder model in cyberspace policy-making

In December, the Internet Governance Forum IGF brought the world together to talk about the internet. I tend to take a definite interest in cybersecurity, but there were many more important topics discussed. They ranged from diversity in the technology sector through to philosophy in the digital...

Presenting: Malwarebytes Labs 2017 State of Malware Report

2017 was a tumultuous year in politics, media, gender, race—and cybersecurity didn’t beat the rap. Last year was full of twists and turns in the cybercrime world, with major outbreaks, new infection methods, and the evolution of the cryptocurrency crime industry. In aiming to make sense of the...

What is the Cb Predictive Security Cloud (PSC)?

In today’s new reality, the device, and the people operating those devices, have taken center stage. Whether in your office or at a Starbucks, your endpoints now have access to some of your organization’s most sensitive data via cloud services, such as Salesforce.com, Office 365, and the Google...

January 22, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NFL” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 22, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Strategic Cyber Ventures...

January 10, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Common Sense” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 10, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Seven Ransomware...

New Book Coming in September: "Click Here to Kill Everybody"

My next book is still on track for a September 2018 publication. Norton is still the publisher. The title is now Click Here to Kill Everybody: Peril and Promise on a Hyperconnected Planet, which I generally refer to as CH2KE. The table of contents has changed since I last blogged about this, and ...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Populations Are Exploding

New research: "Global proliferation of cephalopods" Summary: Human activities have substantially changed the world's oceans in recent decades, altering marine food webs, habitats and biogeochemical processes. Cephalopods squid, cuttlefish and octopuses have a unique set of biological traits,...

December 29, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “2018” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! December 29, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Bitcoin concerns rising...

December 28, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Winter” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! December 28, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Security trends 2018:...

December 22, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Merry Christmas” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! December 22, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Fileless Malware Attack...

Foreman cross-site scripting vulnerability (CNVD-2017-35447)

Foreman is a set of lifecycle management tools for use in physical and virtual servers. The tool provides features such as service provisioning, configuration management, and status reporting. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the Facts, Trends, and Statistics pages in Foreman. A...