IBM i2 Analysts Notebook and IBM i2 Analysts Notebook Premium Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-28962)

IBM i2 Analysts Notebook and IBM i2 Analysts Notebook Premium are both products of IBM Corporation, USA.IBM i2 Analysts Notebook is a data visualization and analysis tool. The product supports features such as data storage and data analysis.IBM i2 Analysts Notebook Premium is an advanced version ...

IBM i2 Analysts Notebook and IBM i2 Analysts Notebook Premium Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-28960)

IBM i2 Analysts Notebook and IBM i2 Analysts Notebook Premium are both products of IBM Corporation, USA.IBM i2 Analysts Notebook is a data visualization and analysis tool. The product supports features such as data storage and data analysis.IBM i2 Analysts Notebook Premium is an advanced version ...

IBM i2 Analysts Notebook and IBM i2 Analysts Notebook Premium Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-28956)

IBM i2 Analysts Notebook and IBM i2 Analysts Notebook Premium are both products of IBM Corporation, USA.IBM i2 Analysts Notebook is a data visualization and analysis tool. The product supports features such as data storage and data analysis.IBM i2 Analysts Notebook Premium is an advanced version ...

Apache Tomcat Exploit Poised to Pounce, Stealing Files

A vulnerability in the popular Apache Tomcat web server is ripe for active attack, thanks to a proof-of-concept PoC exploit making an appearance on GitHub. The now-patched bug affects Tomcat versions 7.0, 8.5 and 9.0. According to Flashpoint analysts Cheng Lu and Steven Ouellette, an exploit for...

Hunting APTs with YARA

For the past few years, we have been spreading our knowledge and experience of using YARA, often called a pattern matching swiss knife for malware researchers and everyone else. Most of the time, this took the form of the Kaspersky training course titled, "Hunting APTs with YARA Like a GReAT...

Cyber Criminals using Coronavirus Fears to Spread Information-Stealing Malware

Cyber criminals have been leveraging trending cultural and viral news items that drive interest from millions of individuals as mechanisms to target and distribute malware easily and effectively. In the past, cyber criminals have used topics including international sports championships, celebrity...

Rocket Loader skimmer impersonates CloudFlare library in clever scheme

Update: The digital certificate issued for https.ps has been revoked by GlobalSign. Fraudsters are known for using social engineering tricks to dupe their victims, often times by impersonating authority figures to instill trust. In a recent blog post, we noted how criminals behind Magecart skimme...

Mimir - Smart OSINT Collection Of Common IOC Types

Smart OSINT collection of common IOC types. Overview This application is designed to assist security analysts and researchers with the collection and assessment of common IOC types. Accepted IOCs currently include IP addresses, domain names, URLs, and file hashes. The title of this project is nam...

7 Tips for Maximizing Your SOC

It takes a special sort of person to be a security analyst. The person must be detail-oriented, curious, intelligent and hard-working, and with a quick reaction time as constant attacks unfold. These analysts have deep expertise that they use during their long shifts to sort through what’s worth...

New Talos Takes podcast puts Talos' spin on the latest cyber news

By Jon Munshaw. Today, Cisco Talos' podcast network is growing with a new show. Talos Takes is a new podcast that provides Talos analysts' and researchers' opinions and expertise on the hottest topics in cyber security. The first three episodes of the show — covering holiday shopping scams,...

Sooty - The SOC Analysts All-In-One CLI Tool To Automate And Speed Up Workflow

Sooty is a tool developed with the task of aiding SOC analysts with automating part of their workflow. One of the goals of Sooty is to perform as much of the routines checks as possible, allowing the analyst more time to spend on deeper analysis within the same time-frame. Sooty is now proudly...

Talos, Cisco Incident Response team up to offer more protection than ever

By Sean Mason Over the years, I've had the honor and privilege to work within some of the greatest security teams on the planet, working alongside such passionate and talented people at Cisco makes delivering this announcement perhaps the greatest honor yet. The best security organizations on the...

Experts on demand: Your direct line to Microsoft security insight, guidance, and expertise

Microsoft Threat Experts is the managed threat hunting service within Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection ATP that includes two capabilities: targeted attack notifications and experts on demand. Today, we are extremely excited to share that experts on demand is now generally available a...

Cyber-Risk Business Cases: Using Economic Impact to Justify TIG Investment

It sure is a difficult time to be a network defender. According to one industry report, as many as 85,000 malicious websites are launched daily, along with 8 million spam and phishing attacks; and, there are anywhere from 30-50 million malicious domains out there at any time. Scale seems to be...

CISO/CIO: Get an iPad and Apple Watch with an App Monitoring your Security 24/7

If you are a CISO or CIO, you need to know what is going on with your organizational security. Together with that, you cannot afford to be inundated with alerts, messages and other data whenever something happens. On the one hand, you need to be in the know, because cyberattacks can occur at any...

Open Sourcing StringSifter

Malware analysts routinely use the Strings program during static analysis in order to inspect a binary's printable characters. However, identifying relevant strings by hand is time consuming and prone to human error. Larger binaries produce upwards of thousands of strings that can quickly evoke...

XDR Is The Best Remedy As Attackers Increasingly Seek To Evade EDR

Real enterprises are messy places. One messy reality is that enterprises don’t manage all their endpoints. A smart colleague turned me onto using the % of endpoints and servers managed as a prime security metric. On one end of the spectrum are places like universities that maybe manage 10% of the...

Privacy Experts: Facebook's $5B Fine Unlikely to Do Much

The $5 billion fine that the Federal Trade Commission has slapped on Facebook for privacy violations may be the largest ever levied by the agency, but it’s being derided as “chump change” and ineffective by lawmakers and privacy analysts. The settlement, reported Friday evening, stems from...

Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC Part 2b: Career paths and readiness

The “Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC” blog series is designed to share our approach and experience with security operations center SOC operations, so you can use what we learned to improve your SOC. The learnings in the series come primarily from Microsoft’s corporate IT security operation...

Threat Intelligence – What It Is and Why You Need It

Threat intelligence is a broad term. Some might think it refers to having information about what threats are out there. But in the evolved world of cybersecurity, threat intelligence is actually a verb. Cybersecurity threat intelligence is the ability to take closed-source or open-source data fro...