July 28, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Animal House” 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! July 28, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: 58.8 Million Voters May Opt...

This Week in Security News

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. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Revoke-Obfuscation: PowerShell Obfuscation Detection Using Science

Many attackers continue to leverage PowerShell as a part of their malware ecosystem, mostly delivered and executed by malicious binaries and documents. Of malware that uses PowerShell, the most prevalent use is the garden-variety stager: an executable or document macro that launches PowerShell to...

“Breaking Bad Security” – Tutorial 1 – Email Phishing

Welcome to the first tutorial from our new video series, “Breaking Bad Security!” This security series is designed to inform you about different tests, tricks, and free tools you can use to validate your security controls and ensure your environment is secure. In this series, we will provide...

July 27, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Black Hat Conference” 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! July 27, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black Named...

Google StuGoogle Study Quantifies Ransomware Profitsdy Quantifies Ransomware Revenue

LAS VEGAS—Over the past two years, 35 unique ransomware strains earned cybercriminals $25 million, with Locky and its many variants being the most profitable. The data comes from a study debuted Wednesday at Black Hat by Google, Chainalysis, UC San Diego, and the NYU Tandom School of Engineering...

Facebook Security Boss: Empathy, Inclusion Must Come to Security

LAS VEGAS—Twenty years of Black Hat seemed to be the appropriate marker in time for Alex Stamos to remind security professionals of their unique position to affect change, not only in technology and business, but also in geopolitics and human rights. Facebook’s chief security officer delivered th...

Black Hat USA 2017 Preview

Mike Mimoso and Tom Spring preview Black Hat, which starts tomorrow in Las Vegas, including some thoughts on what call to action Facebook CSO Alex Stamos may deliver in his keynote address, along with some important topics and sessions that are sure to pop up throughout the week. Download: Black...

Introducing the Qualys New Look and Positioning

Dear Customer, Partner and Security Professional, I would like to thank all of you for your support during our ongoing journey to a world where we are making security invisible and an integrated component of the Digital Transformation of our enterprises. With your help and the dedication of our...

Threat Hunting for Dridex Attacks: Top Questions from Security Teams

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on RedCanary.com. I recently spoke on a threat hunting webinar with our partner Carbon Black in which we dove into Dridex attacks: how they work, why they’re so effective, and how security teams can detect them through a proactive threat hunting...

July 24, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Shark Week” 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! July 24, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Soon, your most important...

Join us at Black Hat 2017

Hide your phones, hide your laptops ‘cause they’re hackin’ everyone out here! For the 20th year, on July 26 and 27, thousands of cybersecurity executives, researchers and enthusiasts will descend upon Las Vegas for Black Hat 2017, including some of Trend Micro’s finest. Throughout the week, Trend...

Vmware virtual machine escape Vulnerability CVE-2017-4901）Exploit code analysis and use-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

0×01 event analysis 2017 7 on 19 unamer in its github released a for Vmware virtual machine escape exploit source code, using C++. The alleged impact of Vmware Workstation 12.5.5 the previous version, and gives a demonstration of the process, to achieve a from the virtual machine to the host...

July 21, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Harry Potter” 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! July 21, 2017 - Headlines U.S. Justice Department Shuts Down Dark Web Bazaar...

Upcoming Video Series – “Breaking Bad Security” – Series Introduction

Welcome to another new video series, “Breaking Bad Security!” This security series is designed to teach you about different tests, tricks and free tools you can use to validate your security controls to ensure your environment is secure. In this series, we will provide easy-to-follow tutorials th...

Did you see what the Black Hat newsletter said about Trend Micro?

This year’s Black Hat® conference is right around the corner. Now, amazingly, in its 20th year, Black Hat is one of the world’s top gathering of information security professionals. Friends in the industry refer to this as “Security Summer Camp” and it’s true, between the training, briefings,...

Just a Few Seats Left at the Coalfire Adaptive Pen Testing Training at Black Hat!

Black Hat is just around the corner, and Coalfire is gearing up for the best Adaptive Penetration Testing Training yet! Weve adapted the Adaptive Penetration Test Training course with new instructors, enriched content, and new labs to provide the richest training to date. The revised training now...

Oracle E-Business Suite Flaw Allows Downloads of Documents

Oracle admins have more than 300 patches to contend with today, but one that should be considered a top priority is a bug in the E-Business Suite of business applications that could allow an attacker to download data without the need for authentication. The vulnerability, CVE-2017-10244, was...

Telegram-Controlled Hacking Tool Targets SQL Injection at Scale

A black market hacking tool has the potential to rapidly conduct website scans for SQL injection vulnerabilities at a large scale, all managed from a smartphone through the Telegram messenger. The Katyusha Scanner is a relative newcomer available to black hats that surfaced in early April. It’s a...

Forbes Ranks Carbon Black As a Top Cloud Company for 2017

Today, Forbes announced its 2017 Forbes Cloud 100 list, a full ranking of the world’s top privately-held cloud companies. We are proud be named on the list alongside such innovators as Slack, Dropbox, DocuSign, Stripe, Cloudera and others. This is the second consecutive year Carbon Black has been...