IPS signatures

April 18, 2014

SECURITY

Cisco IPS Signature Coverage for OpenSSL Heartbleed Issue

The Cisco IPS Signature Development team has released 4 signature updates in the past week. Each of the updates contains either modifications to existing signatures or additional signatures for detection of attacks related to the OpenSSL Heartbleed issue. I’m going to take a moment to summarize the…

December 4, 2013

SECURITY

The Internet of Everything, Including Malware

We are witnessing the growth of the Internet of Everything (IoE), the network of embedded physical objects accessed through the Internet, and it’s connecting new devices to the Internet which may not traditionally have been there before. Unfortunately, some of these devices may be deployed with a se…

May 1, 2013

SECURITY

Coordinated Attacks Against the U.S. Government and Banking Infrastructure

Prologue On April 10, 2013, a collective of politically motivated hacktivists announced a round of planned attacks called #OPUSA. These attacks, slated to begin May 7, 2013, are to be launched against U.S.-based targets. #OPUSA is a follow-up to #OPISRAEL, which were a series of attacks carried out…

March 11, 2013

SECURITY

Why the Cisco SIO Portal Doesn’t Give Out Candy

“Change is inevitable—except from a vending machine.” In the spirit of Robert C. Gallagher’s famous quote—and in our quest to never be a vending machine—we’ve rolled out several updates to Cisco’s Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) Portal which I trust you will find…