Word Attachment Delivers FormBook Malware, No Macros Required

A new wave of document attacks targeting inboxes do not require enabling macros in order for adversaries to trigger an infection chain that ultimately delivers FormBook malware. Researchers at Menlo Security are reporting a wave of attacks that began last month that are targeting financial and...

Eliminating Dwell Time with Cb Response and Red Canary

How Can I Efficiently Organize and Lead the People on My Team? Organizing your team to protect your environment with agility is a difficult task with all the varied skills and challenges related to traditional security operations center SOC structures. We asked our partners at Red Canary, who eve...

Carbon Black Elevated to CDW Emerging Gold Partner

I am proud to announce that CDW recently elevated Carbon Black from the “Silver” partner designation to “Emerging Gold!” This honor is a true testament to our growing partnership with CDW. It’s also a reflection of CDW’s continued commitment to endpoint security by leveraging Next-Generation...

Data Security Solutions for GDPR Compliance

Enforcement of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR adopted in 2016 starts on May 25, 2018. It requires all organizations that do any business in the EU or that collect or process personal data originating in the EU to comply with the regulation. Organizations that do not have a...

Welcome to the Cyber-Regulatory Market of 2018 and Beyond

In the past few years, we’ve seen an increase in the number of companies facing legal consequences for ineffectively meeting deadlines requiring them to measure the effectiveness of their security solutions. Combined with these deadlines, companies also have to prove they have awareness and contr...

Algorithms, Alerts, and Akamai Threat Intelligence

Let me start by posing a question: If in one week security solution A produces 120 alerts and security solution B produces 45 alerts, which solution is providing you with more effective protection? The answer is: It depends. On the face of it, solution A appears to be more effective because it's...

Description of the security update for SQL Server 2012 SP4 GDR: January 12, 2018

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Microsoft security solutions against ransomware and APT

Last Tuesday I was invited to Microsoft business breakfast "Effective protection against targeted and multilevel attacks". Here I would like to share some of my thoughts on this. Need to mention that the food was delicious and the restaurant of Russian Geographical Society is a very lovely place...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Shiri Margel

This month we’ll be closing out our series featuring women in tech at Imperva. While I work closely with many of the women we’ve spotlighted, I’ve found learning more about their backgrounds so interesting—I hope you have too! Continuing in the series, I spoke with Shiri Margel, team lead in the...

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...

Cisco Training Courses: Prepare for CCNA, CCNP Networking Certifications

As governments and enterprises migrate toward controller-based architectures, the role of a core network engineer are evolving and more important than ever. There is a growing number of jobs in Networking, but if you lack behind, you need to pass some certification exams to enter into this indust...

Eavesdropper Vulnerability Exposes Mobile Call, Text Data

UPDATE Mobile app developers who code using the Twilio cloud-based platform and are forgetful about removing their hardcoded credentials have put businesses messaging data at risk for exposure. The so-called Eavesdropper vulnerability, disclosed today by Appthority, has been around since 2011 and...

From Regular Expressions to AI

Three generations of attack detection methodology The oldest and well-studied approach is based on signatures and heuristics. From before the internet times, this approach was implemented in most kinds of detection systems from firewalls to anti-viruses. The second genera- tion represents an...

Lack of Internal IT Security Expertise Requires Connected Threat Defense

There are many different factors that can impact a company's overall security posture. Increasing sophistication on the part of cyber criminals, combined with more frequent attacks launched using advanced malware, represent some of the most pervasive drivers of IT security. However, one issue...

Small Business: A Target for Cyber Criminals

The age of cyber threats has been marked with critical vulnerabilities, evolving strains and organizations that have faced the consequences. Target's breach, the rise of ransomware like WannaCry and the recent Equifax hack serve as lessons that these attacks are the new normal for companies, maki...

QSC17 Focuses on Digital Transformation’s Challenges and Opportunities

Qualys Security Conference 2017 finds Qualys rapidly advancing in its ongoing quest to seamlessly and transparently thread security into the fabric of IT environments, and to make it essential for digital transformation. At QSC17, happening this week in Las Vegas, Qualys executives will share how...

Linux Subsystem on Windows 10 Allows Malware to Become Fully Undetectable

Microsoft has been expressing its love for Linux for almost three years now, and this love costs Microsoft an arm and a leg. Last year, Microsoft surprised everyone by announcing the arrival of Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL in Windows 10, which brings the Linux command-line shell to Windows,...

The Wrong Way to Pick a Security Vendor

For a number of years, we've worked with and supported our Managed Service Provider MSP partners at Trend Micro and I've seen and heard a lot in that time. Over time, we’ve noticed a few trends when it comes to MSPs choosing a security vendor to partner with, and in an effort to save you some...

Remote Exploitation of the NeoCoolcam IP Cameras and Gateway

Foreword The Internet of Connected Things has become a massive phenomenon during the past few years and will continue to grow at an incredible pace. More than 26 billion smart devices will be on the market by 2020, Gartner estimates. We’re looking at an explosive growth, as IoT opportunities...

Five Mistakes I Bet You Are Making with your Managed Services business

As a managed service provider, your customers have entrusted you to manage their IT infrastructure and their security so it’s important that you are making the right choices to secure their environments and keep cyber criminals at bay. In my years of working with our Managed Service Provider...