Falcon Terminal Security System V9.0 suffers from local elevation of privilege vulnerability

The business scope of Beijing Falcon Security Technology Co., Ltd. includes: technology promotion, technology development, technology service, technology consulting; sales of computers, software and auxiliary equipment, electronic products and so on. Falcon Terminal Security System V9.0 has a loc...

XDR: The Next Level of Prevention, Detection and Response [New Guide]

One new security technology we keep hearing about is Extended Detection and Response XDR. This new technology merges multiple prevention and detection technologies on a single platform to better understand threat signals so that you don't need to purchase, integrate, and manage various control an...

Control Flow Guard for Clang/LLVM and Rust

As part of our ongoing efforts towards safer systems programming, we’re pleased to announce that Windows Control Flow Guard CFG support is now available in the Clang C/C++ compiler and Rust. What is Control Flow Guard? CFG is a platform security technology designed to enforce control flow...

Control Flow Guard for Clang/LLVM and Rust

As part of our ongoing efforts towards safer systems programming, we’re pleased to announce that Windows Control Flow Guard CFG support is now available in the Clang C/C++ compiler and Rust. What is Control Flow Guard? CFG is a platform security technology designed to enforce control flow...

Control Flow Guard for Clang/LLVM and Rust

As part of our ongoing efforts towards safer systems programming, we’re pleased to announce that Windows Control Flow Guard CFG support is now available in the Clang C/C++ compiler and Rust. What is Control Flow Guard? What is Control Flow Guard? CFG is a platform security technology designed to...

The Results Are In: Defender Confidence Is On The Rise

Recently, I spent two weeks traveling across Europe talking with defenders, reporters, and leaders of security programs. While each country faces its own unique challenges and has its own needs, there were a few themes that were consistently present. Threat Outlook Report 2020. Naturally, we...

Secure Remote Working During COVID-19 — Checklist for CISOs

Coronavirus crisis introduces a heavy burden on the CISOs with the collective impact of a mass transition to working remotely coupled with a surge of cyberattacks that strive to monetize the general chaos. Security vendors, unintendedly, contribute to this burden by a relentless generation of noi...

CISO series: Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3b: A day in the life

The Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC blog series is designed to share our approach and experience with security operations center SOC operations. We share strategies and learnings from our SOC, which protects Microsoft, and our Detection and Response Team DART, who helps our customers addre...

CISO series: Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3a: Choosing SOC tools

The Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC blog series is designed to share our approach and experience with security operations center SOC operations. Our learnings in the series come primarily from Microsoft’s corporate IT security operation team, one of several specialized teams in the Microso...

Weak Password Vulnerability in the System-Log Audit System of Taihe Information Security Operation Center of Beijing Qixingchen Information Security Technology Co.

TAICHI Information Security Operation Center System - Log Audit System TSOC-SA, TSOC-SA is capable of real-time collection of logs, events, alarms and other information generated by security devices, network devices, hosts, operating systems, and various application systems from different vendors...

Building a VPN for Mobile Devices at the Network Level

By David Balaban In 2019, there is still surprisingly little information about such an old, simple, convenient, and secure technology, as mobile VPN - Virtual Private Network. In this article, I will describe how you can provide access to your virtual private network to any device with a SIM card...

Terahertz Millimeter-Wave Scanners

Interesting article on terahertz millimeter-wave scanners and their uses to detect terrorist bombers. The heart of the device is a block of electronics about the size of a 1990s tower personal computer. It comes housed in a musician's black case, akin to the one Spinal Tap might use on tour. At t...

Partner Perspectives: Defense in Depth with Carbon Black and ProtectWise

Ramon Peypoch is the Chief Product Officer for ProtectWise. Navigating the number of enterprise security point products used to defend against today’s threat landscape can be overwhelming. Some sources say the average enterprise uses 75 security products to secure its network. Reducing the number...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Threat Hunting Teams & CIR

Carbon Black recently published a report on the newest threats facing the financial world, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live...

Introducing Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation

At Microsoft, we want users to be in control of their devices, including knowing the security health of these devices. If important security features should fail, users should be aware. Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation, a new Windows platform security technology, fills this need...

The data breach epidemic: no info is safe

By now it’s obvious that data security technology and protocols haven’t kept pace with the needs of consumers. Even as more people trust their most sensitive personal information to online apps and services, databases are routinely exposed. In 2017 alone, we learned about massive data breaches fr...

If You Think File Integrity Monitoring is Boring, Think Again

You’ll be hard pressed to find file integrity monitoring on any list of cool, emerging, cutting-edge cybersecurity technologies. But if you choose to ignore this mature, foundational technology, it’ll be at great risk. File integrity monitoring, or FIM, plays a key role in critical security and...

Apple iPhone X Face ID Fooled by a Mask

Apple’s Face ID technology, the centerpiece biometric authentication mechanism for the iPhone X, has been cracked a little more than a week after it was introduced to the public. Researchers from Vietnamese security company Bkav demonstrated that they could fool the technology to unlock the phone...

Five Reasons Why I Joined Wallarm

By Johan Nordstrom The question of “what made you change jobs?” may be old, but the answer with my move to Wallarm is new and clear. I have a vision how to address the dynamic threat landscape of today and Wallarm’s innovative approach to security is in line with these ideas. In my 30 years caree...

No payment necessary: Fighting back against ransomware

Note: Read our latest comprehensive report on ransomware: Ransomware 1H 2017 review: Global outbreaks reinforce the value of security hygiene. Any IT professional who’s ever had an experience with malware knows how fast an intrusive attack can happen, and how difficult it can be to educate...