Talos Threat Research Summit at Cisco Live US 2018

Cisco Talos presents a conference by Defenders, for Defenders. Talos had one goal in mind when creating a brand new conference: Make something that we'd want to attend ourselves. As such, the Talos Threat Research Summit is aimed at being a one-day conference by defenders, for defenders. This...

Beers with Talos EP 25: WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!!

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 25 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP25 Show Notes: Recorded 3/13/18 - LIVE from San Jose, California. First of all – we still have a...

A Mirai Botnet Postscript: Lessons Learned

The fall 2016 Mirai botnet compromised more than 300,000 IoT devices as part of a massive DDoS attack. After the crippling attack, Flashpoint and Akamai worked together with law enforcement to help bring those behind the botnet attack to justice. Threatpost’s Tom Spring sits down with Flashpoint’...

Research to Power Your Cybersecurity Strategy

Tap into the leading cyber threat research team that enabled the prevention of 48 billion exploits in 2018 alone...

This Week in Security News: The Cost of Being Unprepared

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, a Georgia bill has the potential to threaten security researchers, and a new report says 77 percent of businesses lack a cybersecurity...

GandCrab Ransomware Crooks Take Agile Development Approach

Earlier this month, command-and-control servers tied to the fast-growing GandCrab ransomware campaigns were seized by Romanian Police and Europol. But, criminals behind GandCrab don’t appear phased by the setback and have already tweaked the malware to keep ransomware payment coming in. According...

Hyperbole Swirls Around AMD Processor Security Threat

Maybe it was the exaggerated threats against AMD’s business or the semi-unprofessional way the threats were brought to light but no matter — security start-up CTS-Labs claims of security holes in the chipmaker’s Ryzen and Epic processor lines are now being lambasted across the security community...

Speculative Execution Bounty Launch

Today, Microsoft is announcing the launch of a limited-time bounty program for speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. This new class of vulnerabilities was disclosed in January 2018 and represented a major advancement in the research in this field. In recognition of that threat...

Sharing research and discoveries at PWN2OWN

The annual PWN2OWN exploit contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, brings together some of the top security talent from across the globe in a friendly competition. For the participants, these events are a platform to demonstrate world-class skills and vie for...

Speculative Execution Bounty Launch

Today, Microsoft is announcing the launch of a limited-time bounty program for speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. This new class of vulnerabilities was disclosed in January 2018 and represented a major advancement in the research in this field. In recognition of that threat...

Speculative Execution Bounty Launch

Today, Microsoft is announcing the launch of a limited-time bounty program for speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. This new class of vulnerabilities was disclosed in January 2018 and represented a major advancement in the research in this field. In recognition of that threat...

MOSQUITO Attack Allows Air-Gapped Computers to Covertly Exchange Data

The team of security researchers—who last month demonstrated how attackers could steal data from air-gapped computers protected inside a Faraday cage—are back with its new research showing how two or more air-gapped PCs placed in the same room can covertly exchange data via ultrasonic waves...

Carbon Black Opens New Research and Development Office in Greater Portland, Oregon

Carbon Black is proud to announce our new office opening in Hillsboro, Oregon – just outside of Portland. The office will serve as a center for research and development, with a focus on bringing new products to market. Hillsboro lies just outside of Portland, a city that experienced a 40-percent...

Extracting Secrets from Machine Learning Systems

This is fascinating research about how the underlying training data for a machine-learning system can be inadvertently exposed. Basically, if a machine-learning system trains on a dataset that contains secret information, in some cases an attacker can query the system to extract that secret...

The researchers found that the 4G LTE network Protocol vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, four American University researchers found that a 4G LTE agreement in question, the use of this vulnerability can be false information fabricated, you can also monitor the user and the address of the track. In the 5G is the deployment of the next phase, we should also note that the...

Linux Kernel _sctp_make_chunk() Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS Denial of Service. An error in the "sctpmakechunk" function net/sctp/smmakechunk.c when handling SCTP packets length can be exploited to cause a kernel crash. The...

Ad Network Circumvents Ad-Blocking Tools To Run In-Browser Cryptojacker Scripts

Cryptojackers are getting resourceful and have figured out how to bypass ad-blocking software and deliver the Coinhive JavaScript miner via browser-based ads. Researchers at Qihoo’s Netlab 360 said it recently spotted an advertising network that was using what is called a domain generation...

binair01.be XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-569949 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| binair01.be Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

PT-2018-13: Command Injection in PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Command Injection vulnerability in PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH. Vulnerability in Phoenix Contact managed FL SWITCH allows attackers to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands. How to fix Update firmware to the latest version Advisory...

PT-2018-12: Information Disclosure in PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Information Disclosure vulnerability in PHOENIX CONTACT FL SWITCH. Vulnerability in Phoenix Contact managed FL SWITCH allows unauthenticated attackers to read the configuration file. How to fix Update firmware to the latest version...