Threat Source newsletter (Nov. 7, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. The only news we’re going to cover this week is the biggest news we’ve had in a while. Tuesday, we announced that Cisco Incident Respons...

Watchbog and the Importance of Patching

By Luke DuCharme and Paul Lee. What Happened? Cisco Incident Response CSIRS recently responded to an incident involving the Watchbog cryptomining botnet. The attackers were able to exploit CVE-2018-1000861 to gain a foothold and install the Watchbog malware on the affected systems. This Linux-bas...

Jeff Moss on the History of DEFCON, Black Hat and the Security Underground

Dennis Fisher talks with Jeff Moss, the founder of DEFCON and Black Hat, about the history of the shows, the Michael Lynn-Cisco incident and the evolution of the hacker culture. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65...