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High Performance Network Security, Enterprise and Data-Center Firewall

Like PuTTY In a Hacker’s Hands

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  June 29, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
PuTTY, the innocuous and ubiquitous terminal application that Windows users download regularly to connect to *nix systems, has been making headlines in the last month after an uptick in malicious activity set off red flags for researchers. As multi...
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Cacti, The Prickly Pear of Data Visualization, gets stung by an XSS Vulnerability

by RSS Aamir Lakhani  |  June 27, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Researchers at FortiGuard Labs recently discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Cacti, a powerful web-based tool for collecting and graphing time series data. Cacti is frequently used for monitoring and presenting a variety of metrics in I...
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Crypto* Ransomware Still Making Headlines

by RSS Jose Luis Laguna  |  June 26, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Although initially targeted at consumers, so-called “ransomware” has continued to make headlines as cybercriminals began shifting their attention to vulnerable businesses. The malware works by encrypting files on users’ computers an...
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Nuit du Hack 2k15

by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  June 25, 2015  |  Category: Security Research
La Nuit du Hack is a major French hacking event I attended last Saturday in Paris. The organization is amazing and there is a ton to do there (provided you've had enough sleep in the last few days): bug bounties, wargame, hack4kids and talks of c...
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Domo Arigato, Mr. Robot

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  June 25, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
I just finished watching the first episode of Mr. Robot, the new show on USA Network about “a cyber-security engineer by day and vigilante hacker by night...recruited by a mysterious underground group to destroy the firm he's paid to protec...
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Hack in Paris 2015

by RSS Axelle Apvrille  |  June 24, 2015  |  Category: Security Research
It was my first time at Hack in Paris, with a single track of talks, but definetely good ones. I'll be highlighting below what struck me the most. You don't hear me but your phones voice interface does (José Lopes Esteves, Chaouki Kas...
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Cybersecurity and Healthcare – No Time to Wait

by RSS Ryan Witt  |  June 22, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
It’s difficult to overemphasize just how vulnerable many healthcare organizations are to cyber attacks. The healthcare industry as a whole simply hasn’t adopted the sorts of protections, best practices, and security awareness as other mar...
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AJAX Exploit Kit - Now At Scale

by RSS Tim Lau  |  June 22, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
At around 5AM PST today, our automatic website scanning system began to detect malicious contents being served from a top 10 global website. This lasted to around 8:30AM PST when, presumably, the website's operators disabled the malicious content...
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Women In Tech - Women In Security

by RSS Chris Dawson  |  June 19, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
We don't see many awards for "The Most Influential Men In Silicon Valley" or "Top Men In the Channel". There's a reason for this, of course. The tech sector is dominated by men, from engineering to the C-suite. Security is...
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The Way Software Is Designed Today, It's Amazing Anything Is Ever Secure

by RSS Evan Schuman  |  June 15, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
One of the most frightening lessons IT people quickly learn is that large complex systems—software, hardware and certainly operating systems—always do things that no one knew they could do (or expect them to do). That's because these...
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IT and the C-Suite: Come Together, Right Now, Over Cybersecurity

by RSS Esther Shein  |  June 10, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Security has typically fallen under the purview of IT, but it’s time to elevate it to a C-suite level discussion. Seemingly every time we turn around there’s something in the news or on social media about high-profile companies like Targe...
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Facebook Adding PGP Encryption Option For Email

by RSS Daniel Dern  |  June 09, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
While some of everyone's social media presence is inevitably publicly viewable, there are parts that we only want shared/visible to "friends" or other confirmed connections. Facebook, which is already using security tools like HTTPS wit...
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PCRE Vulnerability Still a Big Hole For Many Sites and Services

by RSS Alex Harvey  |  June 08, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
PCRE, or Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, is a library of functions that implements regular expression pattern matching. It is used widely in applications ranging from MariaDB to Apache. It is also used extensively by PHP which underpins many web...
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Vawtrak Uses Tor2Web

by RSS Raul Alvarez  |  June 05, 2015  |  Category: Industry Trends & News
Vawtrak, also known as Neverquest, is a banking trojan that is capable of bypassing 2FA (two factor authentication) on some financial institutions. It is also one of your typical information stealer. One of the main strengths of Vawtrak is its use of...
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