Security

The GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, is the largest exhibition for a mobile industry.  This year, Mobile World Congress attracted more than 107,000 attendees. But high profile, public networks also attract a lot of cyber threats. Providing Internet connectivity to each of these attend…

Everyone who works at Cisco knows that we encourage, promote and value a diverse workforce. Supporting women is an important part of that effort. The difference in tangible support from ten years ago to today is profound across the company; but I truly believe that the Security & Trust Organizat…

Lately, there are days I wake up and find it hard to believe it’s been 3 years since we began our Incident Response (IR) practice within Cisco’s walls. Coming in on the ground floor of such a monumental and important offering to our customers gave us the unique opportunity to define and shape our pr…

This is Part 4 in our Four Part DevSecOps Blog Series In Part 3 of our blog series DevSecOps: Automation for Assurance, we covered our automation journey to help us scale security across hundreds of development teams via our Continuous Security Buddy (CSB) capabilities. In the final blog of this ser…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between April 06 and April 13. As with previous round-ups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavior…

Cisco at RSA Conference 2018 At the RSA Conference (RSAC) 2018 last week, more attendees and exhibitors than ever before hit the streets of San Francisco. The annual gathering of security luminaries, leaders and practitioners attracted over 42,000 attendees and more than 600 exhibitors[1] making it…

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Summary Today, Cisco Talos is uncovering a new piece of malware, which has remained under the radar for the past two years while it continues to be developed. Several weeks ago, we identified the use of the latest version of this RAT…

Vulnerabilities discovered by Marcin ‘Icewall’ Noga from Talos Overview Talos has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Hyland Perceptive Document Filters software. This software is a toolkit that allows developers to read and extract metadata from a file. It supports a large set of com…

A new regulation is upon us. Set to take effect on May 25th, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new law implemented within the European Union (EU) to provide stronger protections for personally identifiable information collected, processed, and stored by business entities.   In…