Security

At Cisco, cybersecurity is our top priority; from product development, to operations, to data protection and privacy, we are embedding security everywhere. Our journey starts with protecting the Cisco enterprise. We invite you to learn more about how we securely enable business for our customers, pa…

Some things just get better with age. And you could say the same for the over 30-year partnership between Cisco and BT. Through the course of our partnership, Cisco and BT have innovated together to deliver network and IT solutions around the world. At Cisco, we view service provider partners as an…

This blog was authored by Brandon Stultz Microsoft recently released fixes for a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in Remote Desktop Protocol Servierces (RDP). Identified as CVE-2019-0708 in May’s Patch Tuesday, the vulnerability caught the attention of researchers and…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between May 17 and May 24. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral ch…

With over 8 billion “things” being connected today, IoT security has undoubtedly evolved from a mysterious buzzword to one of the biggest real threats to our network today. According to Gartner, over 51% of survey respondents believe that cybersecurity is the number one technology-related challenge…

It has been 10 years since the discovery of Skimer, first malware specifically designed to attack automated teller machines (ATMs). At the time, the learning curve for understanding its functionality was rather steep and analysis required specific knowledge of a manufacturer’s ATM API function…

Let’s be honest: administering email is a pain. Routing issues, disk quotas, bouncebacks, the times when users can send but not receive emails, receive but not send, or they flat out cannot send or receive—the list goes on. It’s no wonder that email-hosting services like Office 365 have become so po…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between May 17 and May 24. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral ch…

One year ago, Cisco Talos first disclosed the existence of VPNFilter on May 23, 2018. The malware made headlines across the globe, as it was a sophisticated piece of malware developed by a nation state, infecting half a million devices, and poised to cause havoc. Yet the attack was averted. This is…