8 Ways to Avoid the Cybersecurity Grinch This Holiday Season

'Tis the season to be jolly…unless you work in cybersecurity. According to the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU, organizations should expect to see a spike in potential cyberattacks starting with Black Friday/Cyber Monday and continuing through the holiday shopping season. TAU’s analysis...

FBI Shuts Down Multimillion Dollar – 3ve – Ad Fraud Operation

Google, the FBI, ad-fraud fighting company WhiteOps and a collection of cyber security companies worked together to shut down one of the largest and most sophisticated digital ad-fraud schemes that infected over 1.7 million computers to generate fake clicks used to defraud online advertisers for...

Partner Perspectives: Orchestrating Endpoint Security with CyberSponse and Carbon Black

Amit Jain is the Principal Technical Product Manager at CyberSponse. Today's network security infrastructures are complex beasts. Increasing mobile and cloud deployments have made managing endpoint security more challenging than ever before. The dynamic and ever-evolving nature of today’s...

Prolexic Platform Enhancements - New APJ Scrubbing Centers and More

by Don Ng and Greg Burns This October, Akamai is announcing the turn-up of two additional Prolexic DDoS mitigation scrubbing centers in Singapore and Osaka, building on the nine previous scrubbing centers turned up this year and adding to our existing APJ footprint in Sydney, Tokyo, and Hong Kong...

CVE-2018-15436 Cisco Webex Centers Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Webex Events Center, Cisco Webex Meeting Center, Cisco Webex Support Center, and Cisco Webex Training Center could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting XSS attack against a user of the web-based...

nonprofitcenters.org XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-680019 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| nonprofitcenters.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...

Partner Perspectives: Security Orchestration as a Catalyst for Proactive Incident Response

Meny Har is the VP of Product for Siemplify. Benjamin Franklin famously advised the fire-threatened residents of Philadelphia, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” And while being proactive may have been effective for fire prevention, the approach does not translate into the impendi...

Why Do SOCs Look Like This?

When you hear the word "SOC," or the phrase "security operations center," what image comes to mind? Do you think of analyst sitting at desks, all facing forward, towards giant screens? Why is this? The following image is from the outstanding movie Apollo 13, a docudrama about the challenged 1970...

ON PREM vs. CLOUD.

Security and Other considerations. Part 1 By Johan Nordstrom The only constant in this world is change, and these days it’s coming quicker and faster than ever before, as is evident in the explosive market for cloud services. A recent research and analysis from Cisco showed that the global intern...

Targeted Spy Campaign Hits Russian Service Centers

A series of espionage attacks have been uncovered, targeted at service centers in Russia that provide maintenance and support for a variety of electronic goods. The payload is a commercial version of the Imminent Monitor tool, which is freely available for purchase as legitimate software. Its...

New Rowhammer Attack Can Hijack Computers Remotely Over the Network

Exploitation of Rowhammer attack just got easier. Dubbed 'Throwhammer,' the newly discovered technique could allow attackers to launch Rowhammer attack on the targeted systems just by sending specially crafted packets to the vulnerable network cards over the local area network. Known since 2012,...

amgbusinesscenters.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-613196 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| amgbusinesscenters.com 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...

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...

Hackers leave US flag after targeting Cisco switches in Russia & Iran

By Waqas Cisco switches at data centers located in Iran and Russia This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers leave US flag after targeting Cisco switches in Russia & Iran...

Tech support scammers GeeksHelp caught again, two years later

Many researchers have noted an increase in tech support scam activity during the past few months. This trend, facilitated by browser lockers, is not surprising considering that other web-based infection methods are not as effective. While people are still receiving cold calls from alleged Microso...

600 Powerful Bitcoin-Mining Computers Worth $2 Million Stolen In Iceland

Around 600 powerful devices specifically designed for mining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been stolen from Icelandic data centers in what has been dubbed the "Big Bitcoin Heist." To make a profit, so far criminals have hacked cryptocurrency exchanges, spread mining malware, and...

Excerpts from Risk & Response: Defending Financial Institutions with Cb Response

Carbon Black recently published a guide on combating the most advanced threats that financial institutions are facing today using the marketing-leading endpoint detection and response solution, Cb Response. For more information on securing large-scale financial enterprises, including how to...

gracecentersofhope.org XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-539813 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| gracecentersofhope.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...

Flash Operator Panel 2.31.03 - Command Execution

Document Title: =============== Flash Operator Panel v2.31.03 - Command Execution Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1907 Release Date: ============= 2018-01-08 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

SOC Forum 2017: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Massive Malware Attacks

Today I spoke at SOC Forum 2017 in Moscow. It was a great large-scale event about Security Operation Centers. 2,700 people registered. Lots of people in suits . And lots of my good fellows. The event was held in Radisson Royal Congress Park. There were three large halls for presentations and a hu...