Security

There’s a particularly insidious type of targeted phishing scam that has grown in popularity since mid-2018. Our Cisco Talos researchers have been monitoring these scams, a few of which we’ll highlight here. As is the case with most phishing scams, they’re after your money, but it’s a departure from…

Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres authored this post with contributions from Ben Baker. Executive summary Point-of-sale malware is popular among attackers, as it usually leads to them obtaining credit card numbers and immediately use that information for financial gain. This type of malware is gene…

Hello world! I think that’s the obligatory first line for any technology blog, right? But, how do you know I am here? How do you know I exist? I have a blog profile, I have a picture, I have a blog tagged to my name. All of these are contextual clues that I exist in reality, without actually being p…

Part 3: Save time and reduce complexity with better management, automated operations, and product integration Networking and security teams are up against a lot. Hunting for cyberthreats is difficult. Policy management and enforcement across multiple devices is time-consuming and error-prone. Most t…

How to hunt for threats with speed and precision “What’s our exposure?” is a question that requires an urgent and conclusive answer as soon as a potential threat is discovered. That dreaded question can come as an urgent message on Sunday when you’re with your family, as a text at the crack o…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between March 01 and March 08. 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 behaviora…

This blog post is the second in a three-part series on how Duo’s MFA integrates with Cisco technology. Read part one here. More than 5,000 customers use Duo’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) with Cisco’s AnyConnect to provide secure VPN access to users – the integration with Cisco’s AnyConnect VPN…

Better. As we think about security in 2019, let’s consider the theme for this year’s RSA Conference: Better But as RSAC asks, what defines better?  It is better security tools?  Better threat intelligence, Better machine learning classifiers?  Yes.  And more. Much like RSAC suggests, bet…

Did you know that this is the 15-year anniversary of the release of the movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines? Is the world like the movie portrayed it would be? Yes and no. Machines certainly do more than we dreamed possible. And yet…self-actualized robots are not the rise of the machines the mo…