Taking Reputation to Scale: An Iterative Journey with an Agile Approach (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this blog, we shared with you the challenges we had in balancing latency, scalability, and cost for our reputation services. In this blog, we’ll give you some insights into each major iteration along that journey, from the beginning to where we are now. 100 requests per second. Befor...

Taking Reputation to Scale: The Delicate Balance of Latency, Scale, and Cost (Part 1)

When it comes to serving reputation, even a millisecond of latency could create havoc, resulting in the unwanted spread of malware and causing costly consequences that no security company or customer wants. And that’s why we, as engineers here at Carbon Black, are constantly working towards...

Researchers Find Phishing Site Encrypted with AES

Scammers chasing Apple credentials and payment card information have ramped up their efforts to hide their phishing page by encrypting it with AES. Researchers at Ring 0 Labs disclosed details about the operation last week, pointing out that the criminals behind this activity are buffering a fair...

Researchers Work to Predict Malicious Domains

SEATTLE–A typical phishing or Web-based malware attack usually isn’t terribly complex. But they need a few things in order to work, and one of the key components often is a malicious domain. Researchers spend a lot of time identifying and taking these domains down, but some researchers now are...