Carbon Black Selected as a Finalist in the Best Security Company and Best Emerging Technology Categories for the 2018 SC Awards

We are honored to be recognized as an Excellence Award finalist in the Best Emerging Technology category for Cb Defense and as a finalist in the Best Security Company category for the 2018 SC Awards. Now in its 21st year, SC Awards is recognized as the industry gold standard of accomplishment for...

Threat Analysis: Pylot (Travle) Malware Family

The Pylot or Travle malware family appears to be an evolution of the NetTravler malware family which has been linked to attackers out of China by numerous sources. Over the last year a variant has been observed as a secondary payload often used in conjunction with malicious carrier files typicall...

Carbon Black Named a Visionary in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms

For the second consecutive year, Carbon Black has been named a “Visionary” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms. For this year’s edition of the MQ, Gartner evaluated Cb Defense, our flagship solution built on the Cb Predictive Security Cloud ™ PSC. Our vision for the PSC ...

Update on Apple Security Updates for MacOS Impacting Cb Response and Cb Protection Customers

Carbon Black has now made generally available releases to Cb Protection and Cb Response to support the latest OS versions and security update Security Update 2018-001 from Apple for the following Mac sensor/agent releases: Cb Protection: Cb Protection Announcing the Release of Cb Protection 7.2.3...

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...

Getting Back on the Field

Growing up as a foreign service brat, I was obsessed with security. Living in Guatemala in the 80s you had to adapt and become resilient as child. As there was no TV in our household, 10-year-old Tom began to tinker with my father’s computer and soon it became my oasis from the stress of living i...

Getting Back on the Field

Growing up as a foreign service brat, I was obsessed with security. Living in Guatemala in the 80s you had to adapt and become resilient as child. As there was no TV in our household, 10-year-old Tom began to tinker with my father’s computer and soon it became my oasis from the stress of living i...

Infographic: Cyberattacks by the Numbers

As the calendar shifted from December 2016 to January 2017, the prospect of a large-scale cyberattack loomed. Questions over the possible hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election swirled and businesses faced a growing attack vector in ransomware. In 2016, ransomware was estimated to be an...

Infographic: Cyberattacks by the Numbers

As the calendar shifted from December 2016 to January 2017, the prospect of a large-scale cyberattack loomed. Questions over the possible hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election swirled and businesses faced a growing attack vector in ransomware. In 2016, ransomware was estimated to be an...

Excerpts from Preparing for NGAV at Scale: Easy Operation at Enterprise Scale

Carbon Black recently published a guide to help enterprises gauge their readiness in their initial search for next-generation antivirus, or NGAV; this is the last excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps...

Excerpts from Preparing for NGAV at Scale: Fastest Investigation & Response

Carbon Black recently published a guide to help enterprises gauge their readiness in their initial search for next-generation antivirus, or NGAV; this is an excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps...

December 20, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Threat Research” 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 20, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Ransomware dominates th...

Carbon Black 2017 Threat Report: Non-Malware Attacks and Ransomware Continue to Own the Spotlight

As the calendar shifted from December 2016 to January 2017, the prospect of a large-scale cyberattack loomed. Questions over the possible hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election swirled and businesses faced a growing attack vector in ransomware. In 2016, ransomware was estimated to be an...

Threat Analysis: Malicious Microsoft Word Documents Being Used in Targeted Attack Campaigns

A Microsoft Word document .doc believed to be malicious was recently submitted to Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU. The submitting organization did not feel that that document and subsequent payload was fully executing in their analysis environment, and questioned whether or not it was...

OpenDaylight Karaf Information Disclosure Vulnerability

OpenDaylight, a project of the Linux Foundation in the United States, is a set of community-driven open source software-defined networking frameworks that contain an ensemble of modules capable of performing networking tasks that need to be done quickly.Karaf is an OSGi-based runtime environment...

CVE-2017-1000406

OpenDaylight Karaf 0.6.1-Carbon fails to clear the cache after a password change, allowing the old password to be used until the Karaf cache is manually cleared e.g. via restart...

Holiday Season Cyberattacks May Increase By More Than 20% Starting This Week

As we approach the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, organizations should be paying close attention to potential cyberattacks coming their way, if history offers any indication of what’s to come. According to the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU, organizations saw a +20.5% increase in attempted...

Australia’s “Essential Eight” is Critical to Meet 2018 Cybersecurity Mandates & Privacy Laws

Christopher Strand, Carbon Black’s security risk and compliance officer recently wrote a blog discussing how the new mandatory data breach notification rule in the Privacy Amendment Notifiable Data Breaches Bill 2016, helps bring attention to cybersecurity solutions and focus on the practices...

ContextIS Introduces CbRCLI to Access Cb Response via the Command Line for Faster, More Efficient Incident Response

When you think of incident response, there are two key factors. The incident itself, and the need to respond quickly and effectively. You need to have an incident response toolkit that contains everything you need to be able to perform investigations and forensic analysis with speed, accuracy and...

“The 101” – Episode 14 – What Makes Up a Cyberattack? (Part 2)

We’re back with another episode of The 101! This regular security series aims to define endpoint security one question at a time. Tune in each week as we tackle a new term, concept, or comparison in our ongoing effort to provide clear definitions. Last episode we started answering a pivotal...