Security

These vulnerabilities were discovered by Jared Rittle and Patrick DeSantis of Cisco Talos. Summary Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley MicroLogix 1400 Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are marketed for use in a variety of different Industrial Control System (ICS) applications and processes. As suc…

Discovered by Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos Overview Today, Cisco Talos is disclosing multiple vulnerabilities that exist within the Nvidia D3D10 driver. This driver is used throughout multiple GPU product lines available from Nvidia. This is a commonly used driver, and can be found within VMware, thus…

Today, we released the first Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication of 2018. As a reminder, Cisco discloses vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software on a predictable schedule—the fourth Wednesday of March and September in each calendar year. Today’…

Becoming the #1 security company is a tall order. At Cisco, we know that diversity will be our competitive differentiator in attaining that goal. Women bring so much to the security table, offering different perspectives that yield strategic and creative solutions to complex problems that cyber thre…

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Andrew Williams, and Alain Zidouemba. Executive Summary During a recent Incident Response (IR) engagement, Talos identified a new malware family that was being used to compromise SSH servers exposed to the internet. This malware, which we have named G…

Cisco Talos presents a conference by Defenders, for Defenders. Talos had one goal in mind when creating a brand new conference: Make something that we’d want to attend ourselves.  As such, the Talos Threat Research Summit is aimed at being a one-day conference by defenders, for defenders. This…

Rethinking Secure Technical Innovation to Enable Successful Business Outcomes Over the past 25 years I have been employed in the technology field, my non-technical friends often ask me, “How do you keep up with technology as things change so quickly?”  I argue that change isn’t as dramatic as they m…

Cisco Umbrella’s domain reputation intelligence integrated into Cisco Threat Grid Black Hat’s 2018 world conference tour kicked off in Singapore with Black Hat Asia: two days of Trainings, followed by two days of Briefings and the Business Hall. Cisco Security is now a full Technology Partner of Bla…

[This post was created with contributions from Bo Bayles and Patrick Crowley.] Each year goes by and we find more ways to own less and less of what it takes to operate our digital infrastructure. Information Technology began as a business having to build data centers owning everything starting with…