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April 10, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – April 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 68 new vulnerabilities, with 26 of them rated critical, 40 of them rated important and 1 of them rated m…

March 26, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Talos Threat Research Summit at Cisco Live US 2018

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…

March 1, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: Simple DirectMedia Layer’s SDL2_Image

Overview Talos is disclosing several vulnerabilities identified in Simple DirectMedia Layer’s SDL2_Image library that could allow code execution. Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graph…

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

THREAT RESEARCH

2017 in Snort Signatures.

2017 was an eventful year for cyber security with high profile vulnerabilities that allowed self-replicating worm attacks such as WannaCry and BadRabbit to impact organizations throughout the world. In 2017, Talos researchers discovered many new attacks including backdoors in legitimate software suc…

January 10, 2018

MANUFACTURING

Sun, Sand and Industrial Security

Across the United States, people are defrosting and starting to shovel their way out of January’s  Polar Vortex “bomb cyclone.” Even the state of Florida saw some chillier than usual temperatures. Florida has de-thawed now and next week security professionals from all-over head to South Beach for th…

January 5, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Threat Round Up for December 29 – January 5

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between December 29 and January 05. 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 beh…

December 19, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Vulnerability Spotlight: VMWare VNC Vulnerabilities

Today, Talos is disclosing a pair of vulnerabilities in the VNC implementation used in VMWare’s products that could result in code execution. VMWare implements VNC for its remote management, remote access, and automation purposes in VMWare products including Workstation, Player, and ESXi which…

December 8, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Threat Round Up for Dec 01 – Dec 08

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between December 01 and December 08. 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 be…