Security

Network visibility is crucial to running a strong network security practice. Oftentimes when organizations first deploy Cisco Stealthwatch, it uncovers previously unknown risky or suspicious activity on the network. In some cases, it detects an outright breach. With Halloween right around the corner…

In a world where everything is always connected, and mobile devices are involved in individuals’ day-to-day lives more and more often, malicious actors are seeing increased opportunities to attack these devices. Cisco Talos has identified the latest attempt to penetrate mobile devices — a new…

The cybersecurity talent shortage is real, and it’s an all-hands-on-deck moment to overcome it. Yet many people who could be well qualified to take on the diverse roles that cyber needs are daunted at the prospect – if they don’t have the deep math or science background commonly associated with this…

Today, Talos is disclosing a vulnerability in VMWare Workstation that could result in Denial of Service. VMWare Workstation is a widely used virtualization platform designed to run alongside a normal operating system, allowing users to use both virtualized and physical systems concurrently. Read Mor…

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 49 vulnerabilities, 12 of which are rated “critical,” 34 that are rated “important,” two that are considered to have “moderate”…

Vulnerabilities discovered by Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos Talos is disclosing a pointer corruption vulnerability in the Intel Unified Shader compiler for the Intel Graphics Accelerator. OVERVIEW In order for the graphics to be produced, the graphics accelerators need to process the OpenGL scripts int…

I’ve been fortunate to have a great career. While I was drawn to math and science in school, it was rare for a woman to get a STEM-related job in the 1980s, but I did, and at NASA! What a start. That role led by happenstance to my working on the Morris Worm, one of the first big computer worms in hi…

Today, as we do every week, Talos is giving you a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed this week — covering the dates between Sept. 28 and Oct. 5. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, we will summarize the threats we’ve observed by h…

With BYOD, virtualisation, cloud adoption, and IoT becoming commonplace in most organisations, users, devices and workloads are more dynamic than ever. This creates visibility and attribution problems as well as segmentation policies that are increasingly complex and difficult. At a business level,…