Why Our Customers Love the PSC

As the cybersecurity world advances, organizations are starting to embrace cloud-based security platforms. More and more Carbon Black customers are moving to the CB Predictive Security Cloud PSC, an extensible cloud platform that consolidates security and provides you everything needed to secure...

SpeakUp Linux Backdoor Sets Up for Major Attack

LAS VEGAS — A backdoor trojan dubbed “SpeakUp” has been spotted exploiting the Linux servers that run more than 90 percent of the top 1 million domains in the U.S. It uses a complex bag of tricks to infect hosts and to propagate, which analysts say could indicate that it’s poised for a major...

CVE-2018-5560 Guardzilla All-In-One Video Security System Hard-Coded Credential

A reliance on a static, hard-coded credential in the design of the cloud-based storage system of Practecol's Guardzilla All-In-One Video Security System allows an attacker to view the private data of all users of the Guardzilla device...

CVE-2018-5560

The CVE-2018-5560 issue affects Practecol’s Guardzilla All‑In‑One Video Security System. A static, hard‑coded credential in the device’s cloud‑based storage (embedded S3 credentials) allows an attacker to view the private data of all users. The vulnerability stems from hard‑coded AWS S3 access ke...

#OTTuesday: Who Wins in a Format War - A Chat with Encoding.com

If you asked anyone 10 years ago who the winner would be in the over online video formats, you would have heard some strong opinions -- and some incorrect predictions. Video standards and formats will continue to change as long as users demand new ways to view content. AkamaiTV's Nelson Rodriguez...

Dirt-Cheap, Legit, Windows Software: Pick Two

Buying heavily discounted, popular software from second-hand sources online has always been something of an iffy security proposition. But purchasing steeply discounted licenses for cloud-based subscription products like recent versions of Microsoft Office can be an extremely risky transaction,...

Zero Trust Security Protects Businesses while Enabling Growth

Many companies have their own applications, internal domains, and local area network LAN. But when it comes to business applications, organizations are increasingly dependent on cloud-based resources. These may include email servers, customer relationship management CRM software, or other...

SNDBOX: AI-Powered Online Automated Malware Analysis Platform

Looking for an automated malware analysis software? Something like a 1-click solution that doesn't require any installation or configuration…a platform that can scale up your research time… technology that can provide data-driven explanations… well, your search is over! Israeli cybersecurity and...

Uber fined $1.1 million by UK and Dutch regulators over 2016 data breach

British and Dutch data protection regulators Tuesday hit the ride-sharing company Uber with a total fine of $1,170,892 1.1 million for failing to protect its customers' personal information during a 2016 cyber attack involving millions of users. Late last year, Uber unveiled that the company had...

U.S. Mid-term Elections and Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector

The last few years have witnessed seismic changes in the world's political landscape and the way elections have been conducted. As of yet, there's no conclusive evidence that the results and outcomes of a country's election process have been impacted by the cyber efforts of internal or foreign...

Small Business Benefits of Moving to the Cloud: Resource Friendly

Small businesses never seem to have enough people or funding, and the last thing they need is for their security solution to be eating up precious resources. Your people are stretched thin and don’t really have time or budget to source new hardware or push software updates. Not to mention the...

Small Business Benefits of Moving to the Cloud: Effective Security

When you’re selecting an endpoint security platform for your small business, you want it to work — and work well. However, less than one third of organizations believe that traditional AV has the power to stop the attacks that they are seeing.1 With fileless malware attacks and ransomware on the...

Small Business Benefits of Moving to the Cloud: Ease of Use

If you’re a security professional at a small business, odds are you’re looking for a solution that isn’t overly complicated and doesn’t require a huge amount of oversight. At Carbon Black, we understand that your security and IT Ops teams are understaffed and your budget is stretched thin...

What You Should Look For in a Next-Generation Security Solution

Today’s businesses face a unique set of challenges. They want security that works and is easy to implement and manage but, frequently, are working with a limited budget and resources. Many organizations know their current antivirus solution has gaps, but don’t know where to begin in the search fo...

Why Small Businesses Need Cloud-Based Endpoint Security

If you run security at a small business, you know that you aren’t immune from attacks. In fact, your intellectual property and data is often more at risk, as you are perceived to be an easier target than enterprise vendors. According to the Ponemon Institute, two thirds of SMBs have had at least...

Bring your own security (BYOS): good idea or not?

We've talked about the concept of Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, on the blog before. BYOD is a popular policy whereby employees can bring personally-owned devices, such as laptops, tablets, or smartphones, to work and use them to access data and applications. It helps to cut costs and can increa...

Zero Trust Security Architectures - Identity Aware Proxy

By Faraz Siddiqui and Andrew Terranova This is Part 4 of a 5 part blog series. Jump to Part 1: Introduction Jump to Part 2: Network Micro-Segmentation Jump to Part 3: Software Defined Perimeter Jump to Part 5: Akamai's Approach to Zero Trust Introduction In the first part of this blog series, we...

Delivering security innovation that puts Microsoft’s experience to work for you

Cybersecurity is the central challenge of our digital age. Without it, everything from our personal email accounts and privacy to the way we do business, and all types of critical infrastructure, are under threat. As attackers evolve, staying ahead of these threats is getting harder. Microsoft ca...

DNS is a Unique (and Necessary) Security Control

Like many other security professionals, you have been reviewing your security stack, reading up on the latest security trends, and have perhaps recently attended Info-Sec, RSA, Black Hat or some other relevant conference. Along the way, you may have seen messaging for recursive DNS rDNS as a...

10 Endpoint Security Problems Solved by the Cloud – Managing Infrastructure

This week marks our final post in this series. Today we’re going to step away from last week’s topic, getting the help you need, and examine how the cloud eliminates the need to manage infrastructure. On-Prem is Complex and Costly On-premise solutions require a massive amount of resources and fun...