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This Week in Security News: New Zero-Day Vulnerability Findings and Mobile Phishing Scams

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. This week, learn how music festival goers need to be on guard for phishing attacks when trying to find a lost iPhone. Also, read how Trend Micro...

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 22)

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. What’s old is new again. Our research this week centers around a series of long-lasting threat actors and malware that have been given n...

Election Security Threats: From Misinformation to Voting Machine

Election security continues to be a top concern – from social media misinformation campaigns, to vulnerabilities in the actual voting machines themselves. At Black Hat USA 2019, Threatpost caught up with Matt Olney, director of threat intelligence at Cisco Talos, to discuss the challenges that...

The Unsexy Threat to Election Security

Much has been written about the need to further secure our elections, from ensuring the integrity of voting machines to combating fake news. But according to a report quietly issued by a California grand jury this week, more attention needs to be paid to securing social media and email accounts...

Threat Source newsletter (July 25, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. No one really likes talking about election security. It’s a sticky subject, costs lots of money and doesn’t come with an easy fix...

Let's Destroy Democracy

Election security through an adversary's eyes By Matt Olney. Executive summary Over the past few years, Cisco Talos has increasingly been involved in election security research and support, most recently supporting the Security Service of Ukraine in their efforts to secure the two Ukrainian...

FEC: Campaigns Can Use Discounted Cybersecurity Services

The U.S. Federal Election Commission FEC said today political campaigns can accept discounted cybersecurity services from companies without running afoul of existing campaign finance laws, provided those companies already do the same for other non-political entities. The decision comes amid much...

Framing the Problem: Cyber Threats and Elections

This year, Canada, multiple European nations, and others will host high profile elections. The topic of cyber-enabled threats disrupting and targeting elections has become an increasing area of awareness for governments and citizens globally. To develop solutions and security programs to counter...

Threat Source newsletter (May 23)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Election security is a touchy — and oftentimes depressing — topic of conversation. So why not let Beer with Talos bring some levity...

Beers with Talos Ep. #53: Shiny happy election security (and ninjas)

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 53 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded May 10, 2019 — Election security has been a dominant headline for some time, so it’s high time we take a look at what th...

DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System

This sounds like a good development: ...a new $10 million contract the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking. The first-of-its-kind system will be designed by an...

Midterms 2018: The Unprecedented Effort to Secure Election Day

Ninety-four district election officers. Thirteen hundred electoral jurisdictions. Multiple law enforcement agencies. The fight to keep the midterms safe has an unimaginable scope...

Election Readiness 2018

2018 is a pivotal year for the integrity of our electoral process. The threat to the digital infrastructure of our elections is proliferating to a level that has not been seen before. Officials are working tirelessly to protect your vote by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and targeting...

This Week in Security News: Trends and Tea Parties

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. This week, the U.S. official in charge of election security was replaced, Trend Micro hosted a tea party in rural Taiwan, and a new cryptocurrency mino...

January 19, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Puppies” 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 19, 2018 - Headlines The Five Laws Of Cybersecurity - Forbes 3 things y...

January 19, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Puppies” 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 19, 2018 - Headlines The Five Laws Of Cybersecurity - Forbes 3 things y...

Voting Machines Hacked with Ease at DEF CON

LAS VEGAS—Hackers at DEF CON last week made quick work of finding vulnerabilities in electronic pollbooks and voting machines, needing just 90 minutes to find exploitable flaws in every piece of voting equipment. More than 30 machines were available for hackers to crack at the conference’s Voting...

July 14, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Bastille Day” 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 14, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: US Voters Consider Russia t...

Google, Jigsaw Partner on Free Tools to Secure Elections

Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw announced on Tuesday that it and Google would offer a free suite of security tools aimed at securing political elections. The announcement was fresh off a tense House Intelligence Committee meeting on Monday during which FBI Director James Comey confirmed that the burea...