Security

Finding – and keeping – the cybersecurity talent required for today’s digital economy is a serious challenge. And it’s getting worse. Here at Cisco, we’re perpetually hearing from employers and hiring managers about their struggles with the growing cybersecurity skills gap. How bad is it? Well, the…

Talos has updated its TeslaCrypt decryptor tool, which now works with any version of this variant of ransomware. You can download the decryptor here. When Talos first examined TeslaCrypt version 1.0 in April of 2015, we articulated how this ransomware operated and were able to develop a decryptor.…

Defense in depth is a well understood and widely implemented approach that can better secure your organization’s network. It works by placing multiple layers of defense throughout the network to create a series of overlapping and redundant defenses. If one layer fails, there will still be other defe…

This vulnerability was discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos. PDFium is the default PDF reader that is included in the Google Chrome web browser. Talos has identified an exploitable heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the Pdfium PDF reader. By simply viewing a PDF document that include…

This vulnerability was discovered by Dave McDaniel, Senior Research Engineer. Summary iPerf is a network testing application that is typically deployed in a client/server configuration and is used to measure the available network bandwidth between the systems by creating TCP and/or UDP connections.…

No matter how many security tools you deploy to defend your organization, malware is going to get in. You need to see it if you want any chance of stopping it. Cisco AMP for Endpoints provides deep visibility into the activity of files on your system so that you can spot malicious behavior quickly a…

Do you dream of keeping your data under a lock and key that only you control? Or are you trying to appease regulations, whether corporate or government mandated? Organizations should not fear the auditor more than the attacker. While many have come to adopt the cloud, there are cases where it might…

Having personally spent a lot of time at Fortune 500’s, I know that individuals tend to develop blinders when dedicated to an organization, and begin to accept that things are done a certain way, and there is an order about things. It may come as a surprise then, when others don’t do things the way…

The post was authored by Mariano Graziano. Executive Summary Attacks have grown more and more complex over the years. The evolution of the threat landscape has demonstrated this where adversaries have had to modify their tactics to bypass mitigations and compromise systems in response to better miti…