The role that regions can and should play in critical infrastructure protection

Todays report, Critical Infrastructure Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean 2018, developed in partnership between Microsoft and the Organization of American States OAS, demonstrates the value of regional cooperation in global efforts to increase the security of the online environment...

Threat Analysis: ROKRAT Malware

ROKRAT also referred to as DOGcall is a family of malware that has been used by attackers originating from North Korea. The family continues to evolve and adopt techniques from other families also used by the same attack group. The ROKRAT core payload is typically deployed by a loader, which has...

The Evolution of Ransomware

While many businesses and individual users understand that ransomware isn't a new threat, many don't actually know how long this particular infection style has been utilized by hackers. The first attacks took place more than a decade ago, and since then, ransomware authors have only become more...

The New Cyber Landscape: More Threats, But Fewer Security Professionals

Great news: If you're a security professional, your skills have never been more in demand. On the flip side, if you're looking for security talent, the search will likely be lengthy and difficult. ISACA predicts that by 2019 there will be a shortage of two million cyber security professionals...

3 reasons the ransomware threat will continue in 2018

Ransomware has been on the scene for more than a decade now, and thanks to increasingly sophisticated samples that attack victims across nearly every country, it's become a global threat. According to CSO, ransomware has a longer history than many realize. While large-scale attacks reached the...

OWASP Top 10 2017 is Released

The Journey to the New and Improved Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks It was not too long ago that protecting your web server infrastructure consisted of simply placing the servers in their own zone behind the firewall and just opening a couple of ports. Outside of endpoint...

Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Story of the year 2017

Download the Kaspersky Security Bulletin: Story of the year 2017 Introduction: what we learned in 2017 In 2017, the ransomware threat suddenly and spectacularly evolved. Three unprecedented outbreaks transformed the landscape for ransomware, probably forever. The attacks targeted businesses and...

methodsinecologyandevolution.org XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-429380 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| methodsinecologyandevolution.org Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Shu White

Up next in our series featuring women in technology at Imperva is a spotlight on Shu White, the company’s vice president and deputy general counsel. Hailing from a legal background, I found her perspective particularly unique. Read below for Shu’s take on the cybersecurity industry, the inspiring...

APT Trends report Q3 2017

Introduction Beginning in the second quarter of 2017, Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT began publishing summaries of the quarter's private threat intelligence reports in an effort to make the public aware of what research we have been conducting. This report serves as the next...

Excerpts from The Ransomware Economy: Emergence and Innovation

Carbon Black recently published an investigative report on the Dark Web marketplace for ransomware. This is an excerpt from that report, which you can find here. For more information about the rise of ransomware, and what you can do about it, check out the Future-Proof Your Ransomware Prevention...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Michal Pal

We continue our articles focusing on the themes of National Cyber Security Awareness Month with the first of a series of articles spotlighting some of the women who work at Imperva. I spoke to Michal Pal, automation group manager for the Imperva Incapsula product line and got to know about what...

Hunting Threats Before Threats Hunt Us

Remember file cabinets? Most businesses have auctioned them off or sent them home with employees. For many, paper is a thing of the past. An expansive communication network has collapsed a once-massive Earth into smartphones that fit into our pockets. Cloud computing has made all information...

Chris Brook Says Farewell to Threatpost

Mike Mimoso talks to Chris Brook who is leaving Threatpost after eight years. Chris recalls the early days of the site and his role in helping get it off the ground. He also talks about how security has evolved right alongside Threatpost. Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Cisco ASR 5500 System Architecture Evolution Gateway Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco ASR 5500 System Architecture Evolution SAE Gateways is a gateway device from Cisco.General Packet Radio Service GPRS Tunneling Protocol ingress packet handler is one of the General Packet Radio Service GPRS Tunneling Protocol ingress packet handlers. A denial of service vulnerability exists...

The vulnerability of the LTE component of the Android operating system from the CAF repository, which allows a perpetrator to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the LTE component of the Android operating system exists due to insufficient verification of data related to the size of the frequency list. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the...

Friday Squid Blogging: Prehistoric Dolphins that Ate Squid

Paleontologists have discovered a prehistoric toothless dolphin that fed by vacuuming up squid: There actually are modern odontocetes that don't really use their teeth either. Male beaked whales, for example, usually have one pair of teeth that is only used to fight for females, whose teeth stay...

Threat Hunting for Dridex Attacks: Top Questions from Security Teams

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on RedCanary.com. I recently spoke on a threat hunting webinar with our partner Carbon Black in which we dove into Dridex attacks: how they work, why they’re so effective, and how security teams can detect them through a proactive threat hunting...

The CIO Will Report to the CISO

Note: This article originally appeared on LinkedIn Pulse. If you disagree with me, please visit the LinkedIn post to join the 70+ comments we've gotten so far. As a community we need the open discussion to advance our collective thinking. If you agree, please like, comment and/or share the post...

Two New Platforms Found Offering Cybercrime-as-a-Service to 'Wannabe Hackers'

Cybercrime has continued to evolve and today exists in a highly organised form. Cybercrime has increasingly been commercialised, and itself become big business by renting out an expanded range of hacking tools and technologies, from exploit kits to ransomware, to help anyone build threats and...