Email Phishers Using A Simple Way to Bypass MS Office 365 Protection

Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cyber criminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass most AI-powered phishing detection mechanisms implemented by widely used email services and web security scanners. Dubbed ZeroFont , the technique involves...

From the ground up to the cloud: Microsoft’s Intelligent Security supporting CISOs’ cloud transformation

Its no secret that Microsoft has embraced the cloud in a big wayfrom enterprise solutions like Microsoft Azure to Office 365 and Windows. But a recent research report by Forrester focuses on an equally important shift in our approach to securityintegrating workforce and cloud security in ways tha...

Google Patches reCAPTCHA Bypass

Google has fixed a bypass for its reCAPTCHA authentication mechanism – the Turing test-based methodology for proving that website users aren’t robots, commonly spotted on log-in pages online. The news comes as Google releases a new version of reCAPTCHA in beta. Google has been working on refining...

Sending Inaudible Commands to Voice Assistants

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to send inaudible commands to voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Over the last two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear t...

TiE Inflect 2018 announces Wallarm as a 2018 TiE50 Finalist

We are excited to share one more win for the Wallarm team. Wallarm has been selected as a “2018 TiE50 Finalist” for the prestigious TiE50 Awards Program recognizing the world’s most innovative tech startups. This awards competition is part of TiE Inflect 2018, a prominent conference for tech...

Teaming up in the war on tech support scams

Editors note: Erik Wahlstrom spoke about the far-reaching impact of tech support scams and the need for industry-wide cooperation in his RSA Conference 2018 talk Tech Scams: Its Time to Release the Hounds. Social engineering attacks like tech support scams are so common because theyre so effectiv...

Facebook Plans to Build Its Own Chips For Hardware Devices

A new job opening post on Facebook suggests that the social network is forming a team to build its own hardware chips, joining other tech titans like Google, Apple, and Amazon in becoming more self-reliant. According to the post, Facebook is looking for an expert in ASIC and FPGA—two custom silic...

Facebook Plans to Build Its Own Chips For Hardware Devices

A new job opening post on Facebook suggests that the social network is forming a team to build its own hardware chips, joining other tech titans like Google, Apple, and Amazon in becoming more self-reliant. According to the post, Facebook is looking for an expert in ASIC and FPGA—two custom silic...

Tapping the intelligent cloud to make security better and easier

There has been a distinct shift in my conversations with customers over the last year. Most have gone from asking can we still keep our assets secure as we adopt cloud services?, to declaring, we are adopting cloud services in order to improve our security posture. The driving factor is generally...

How artificial intelligence and machine learning will impact cybersecurity

Artificial intelligence AI and machine learning ML are hot topics in technology. New use cases and applications are discussed daily—from search results recommendations to smart cars. But what are cybersecurity organizations doing with this tech? What does it take to render additional security out...

Behavior monitoring combined with machine learning spoils a massive Dofoil coin mining campaign

Update: Further analysis of this campaign points to a poisoned update for a peer-to-peer P2P application. For more information, read Poisoned peer-to-peer app kicked off Dofoil coin miner outbreak. Just before noon on March 6 PST, Windows Defender Antivirus blocked more than 80,000 instances of...

February 15, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Ninja Turtles” 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! February 15, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: JASK Announces Technolo...

How artificial intelligence stopped an Emotet outbreak

At 12:46 a.m. local time on February 3, a Windows 7 Pro customer in North Carolina became the first would-be victim of a new malware attack campaign for Trojan:Win32/Emotet. In the next 30 minutes, the campaign tried to attack over a thousand potential victims, all of whom were instantly and...

This Week in Security News: Botnets and Breaches

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, North Korean hackers overtook Adobe, Trend Micro Safety Solutions discovered new a botnet, and the threat of third-party cyber breaches made...

Examining & Evaluating Security Before a “Pressure Event” is Critical…Especially on a Hot Summer Day

There are countless parallels between cyber and physical security. I often use physical security to explain cyber to the uninitiated. The thick walls, soundproofed vents, locks and codes and even the key on the door to Robert Hanssen’s SCIF are mirrored by the malware detectors, firewalls next-ge...

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...

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...

January 26, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Friday” 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 26, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: New infosec products of...

January 16, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NASA” 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 16, 2018 - Headlines BlackBerry launches cybersecurity software for...

Apple iPhone X Face ID Fooled by a Mask

Apple’s Face ID technology, the centerpiece biometric authentication mechanism for the iPhone X, has been cracked a little more than a week after it was introduced to the public. Researchers from Vietnamese security company Bkav demonstrated that they could fool the technology to unlock the phone...