Microsoft

January 9, 2019

THREAT RESEARCH

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — January 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 49 vulnerabilities, seven of which are rated “critical,” 40 that are considered “important” and one that is “moderate.” This release also includes…

November 16, 2018

SECURITY

Agentless threat detection for Microsoft Azure workloads with Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud

Detecting threats, such as malware, rogue insiders, and credential abuse, within public cloud environments can be a major challenge. Traditionally, organizations have tried to solve this problem by overlaying a patchwork of agents across the cloud surface to detect bad activity. This approach requir…

September 24, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Adwind Dodges AV via DDE

This blog post is authored by Paul Rascagneres, Vitor Ventura and with the contribution of Tomislav Pericin and Robert Perica from ReversingLabs. Introduction Cisco Talos, along with fellow cybersecurity firm ReversingLabs, recently discovered a new spam campaign that is spreading the Adwind 3.0 rem…

September 11, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco, Intel and Microsoft Accelerate the Transition from SDI to IP with an Open Source Toolkit for Media Software Vendo …

Written by Peter Bosch & Andre Surcouf Live media production facilities primarily use serial digital interface (SDI) for interconnections between media applications, media appliances and other bespoke media equipment. The transition from SDI to IP aids in replacing traditional SDI cables with Et…

June 13, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: TALOS-2018-0545 – Microsoft wimgapi LoadIntegrityInfo Code Execution Vulnerability

Talos is disclosing a remote code execution vulnerability in the Microsoft wimgapi library. The wimgapi DLL is used in the Microsoft Windows operating system to perform operations on Windows Imaging Format (WIM) files. WIM is a file-based disk image format created by Microsoft to simplify the deploy…

February 13, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – February 2018

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – February 2018 Today Microsoft has released its monthly set of security advisories for vulnerabilities that have been identified and addressed in various products. This month’s advisory release addresses 54 new vulnerabilities with 14 of them rated critical, 38 o…

January 29, 2018

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Cisco and Microsoft: Delivering Fast, Reliable, and Secure Cloud Connection

Business agility, lower cost of ownership, and the flexibility to scale up or down quickly. The cloud world is rich with benefits, and growing. According to IDC’s Worldwide IT Industry 2018 Predictions, spending on cloud services and cloud-enabling hardware, software and services will more than doub…

November 15, 2017

COLLABORATION

Cisco Collaboration: We Can’t Imagine a World without Microsoft

As CTO for the collaboration group at Cisco, I get asked this question all of the time – are you guys committed to a multi-vendor environment with Microsoft? Gosh, I find this a frustrating question. Why is that? Because most (not all, but almost!) customers we sell to also have Microsoft products i…

October 10, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – October 2017

Microsoft has released its monthly set of security advisories for vulnerabilities that have been identified and addressed in various products. This month’s advisory release addresses 63 new vulnerabilities with 28 of them rated critical and 35 rated important. These vulnerabilities impact Grap…