How CB LiveOps Helps with Vulnerability Assessment

Security and IT Operations teams often have no reliable way to assess the current state of endpoints across their enterprise, leading to increased risk of breach, inability to make informed remediation decisions, and unnecessary spending on infrastructure maintenance. A real-time endpoint query a...

How to Secure Your Mid-Size Organization From the Next Cyber Attack

If you are responsible for the cybersecurity of a medium-sized company, you may assume your organization is too small to be targeted. Well, think again. While the major headlines tend to focus on large enterprises getting breached – such as Sony, Equifax, or Target the actual reality is that smal...

How to Secure Your Mid-Size Organization From the Next Cyber Attack

If you are responsible for the cybersecurity of a medium-sized company, you may assume your organization is too small to be targeted. Well, think again. While the major headlines tend to focus on large enterprises getting breached – such as Sony, Equifax, or Target the actual reality is that smal...

This Week in Security News: Adware and Ransomware

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 about an adware that disguised itself as different apps and monitors mobile devices. Also, learn more about the different ransomware...

How CB LiveOps Helps with IT Hygiene

Security and IT Operations teams often have no reliable way to assess the current state of endpoints across their enterprise, leading to increased risk of breach, inability to make informed remediation decisions, and unnecessary spending on infrastructure maintenance. A real-time endpoint query a...

Cybersecurity Skills Gap: “There’s No Silver Bullet to Solving the Problem” & Other Takeaways From the Toronto Global Forum

Last week, I ventured up to the beautiful city of Toronto — and while I’d love to go back for pleasure, this trip was strictly business. The Toronto Global Forum is an international conference that brings together heads of states, central bank governors, ministers and global economic decision...

Defending Credentials From Automated Attack Tools

By Danny Wasserman The folks on the Akamai Professional Services team are the people who help implement, configure, and tune the cloud security products that protect our customers' web applications from the daily onslaught of bots blasting login attempts against their websites, mobile apps, and...

CISO series: Strengthen your organizational immune system with cybersecurity hygiene

One of the things I love about my job is the time I get to spend with security professionals, learning firsthand about the challenges of managing security strategy and implementation day to day. There are certain themes that come up over and over in these conversations. My colleague Ken Malcolmso...

Using the L.U.R.E. Method to Swim Free of Phishing Attacks

baitfish noun bait·​fish | \ˈbāt-ˌfish \ Definition of baitfish : a small fish such as a golden shiner or menhaden that attracts and is a food source for a larger game fish also : a fish used for bait Think about being in a school of fish for a second. Schools behave the way they do for a reason...

Hackers Breach Dunkin' Donuts Accounts in Credential Stuffing Attack

A credential stuffing attack has allowed hackers to take a big bite out of Dunkin’ Donuts customer data. The donut giant announced Tuesday evening that a data breach in October may have led to customers’ personal information being compromised. Dunkin’ Brands Inc. in an advisory posted to its...

CISO series: Lessons learned—4 priorities to achieve the largest security improvements

In my past life as CISO, Ive worked for small companies, state governments, and large enterprises, and one thing that has been true at all of them is that there is an infinite number of security initiatives in each organization you could implement, yet the resources to accomplish those tasks are...

Podcast: Troy Hunt Talks Bad Passwords – and Who’s to Blame for Them

With credential-stuffing making headlines when it comes to certain data breaches – including the recent HSBC breach reported earlier this week – the security community has continued to ponder an age-old question: Who is responsible for effective password hygiene and security measures? The account...

China Chip Hack Shines Spotlight on Hardware and Supply-Chain Risk

Recent revelations in the press regarding hardware implants and supply-chain compromise are troubling and should be seen as an opportunity to assess our current threat model and security approach. This recently revealed situation is the hardware analogue to the software supply chain compromises w...

China Chip Hack Shines Spotlight on Hardware and Supply-Chain Risk

Recent revelations in the press regarding hardware implants and supply-chain compromise are troubling and should be seen as an opportunity to assess our current threat model and security approach. This recently revealed situation is the hardware analogue to the software supply chain compromises w...

ThreatList: Password Hygiene Remains Lackluster in Global Businesses

When it comes to password behaviors in the workplace, the average business is doing just an okay job, scoring a middling score in a credentials-security benchmarking analysis of organizations’ habits. Notably, the data also shows that password-sharing is still prevalent in the workplace – althoug...

Cybercrime in the Spotlight: How Crooks Capitalize on Cultural Events

ARCHIVED STORY Cybercrime in the Spotlight: How Crooks Capitalize on Cultural Events By John Fokker · July 03, 2018 Every four years, everyone’s head around the globe turns toward the television. The Olympics, the World Cup – world events like these have all eyes viewing friendly competition...

SamSam Ransomware Evolves Its Tactics Towards Targeting Whole Companies

Ransomware has lately lost its status as the queen of the cybercrime prom, but a new iteration of the nefarious SamSam extortion code shows that it can still make a bid to be sparkly and attention-getting. The latest version of SamSam has taken the malware road less traveled, ditching widespread...

Carbon Black’s Predictive Security Cloud (PSC) To Help Power Newly Launched IBM X-Force Threat Management Services

Today is another exciting day for Carbon Black and IBM! This morning we announced Carbon Black has expanded its relationship with IBM Security as the Cb Predictive Security Cloud PSC™ will be part of the newly launched IBM X-Force Threat Management Services to further combat advanced threats acro...

Election Security

I joined a letter supporting the Secure Elections Act S. 2261: The Secure Elections Act strikes a careful balance between state and federal action to secure American voting systems. The measure authorizes appropriation of grants to the states to take important and time-sensitive actions, includin...

How to mitigate rapid cyberattacks such as Petya and WannaCrypt

In the first blog post of this 3-part series, we introduced what rapid cyberattacks are and illustrated how rapid cyberattacks are different in terms of execution and outcome. In the second blog post, we provided some details on Petya and how it worked. In this final blog post, we will share:...