Cisco fashions tactical ransomware defense
Cisco has taken a look at its security capabilities and those of its partners and come up with a playbook to address ransomware.
Stories by Tim Greene
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Cisco, IBM may be interested in buying Imperva
Security vendor Imperva is shopping itself around and may be attractive to the likes of Cisco and IBM, according to Bloomberg.
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Largest DDoS attack ever delivered by botnet of hijacked IoT devices
Securing the internet of things should become a major priority now that an army of compromised devices – perhaps 1 million strong - has swamped one of the industry’s top DDoS protection services.
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RSA: Expect business as usual now that Dell owns it
Enterprises should expect business as usual from RSA in the wake of its being swept up by Dell this week in the largest tech deal ever, with company executives saying it will retain a good deal of autonomy to carry out its strategic plans.
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Intel spinout: McAfee is back
Intel is going to spin out its subsidiary Intel Security as a joint venture with investment firm TPG, redubbing the new entity with its old name – McAfee.
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Imperva: Application layer DDoS attacks are on the rise.
Application layer DDoS attacks are becoming more common, perhaps because they cost less for malicious actors to execute and can more effectively evade defenses than network layer attacks, Imperva says.
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14 essential Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts
There are plenty of ways to navigate Windows 10, but sometimes using keyboard shortcuts is the most convenient and can save time and effort.
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Four free tools for handling Amazon Web Services security incident response
Using AWS’s API software developer’s kit or its command line interface, customers can write their own tools for imaging disk instances that have been compromised, say Andrew Krug and Alex McCormack. The pair if researchers presented four tools at Black Hat 2016 that they wrote specifically to deal with incident response in AWS.
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Why the ‘cyber kill chain’ needs an upgrade
One of the most popular models for analyzing cyberattacks doesn’t focus enough on what to do after adversaries break into networks successfully, which they inevitable will do, Black Hat 2016 attendees were told this week in Las Vegas.
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‘Mayhem’ wins $2M first prize in DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge
Cyber-reasoning platform Mayhem pulled down the $2 million first prize in a DARPA-sponsored Cyber Grand Challenge competition that pitted entrants against each other in the classic hacking game Capture the Flag, never before played by programs running on supercomputers.
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Black Hat: How to make and deploy malicious USB keys
USB keys were famously used as part of the Stuxnet attack on the Iranian nuclear program and for good reason: it’s got a high rate of effectiveness, according to a researcher at Black Hat 2016.
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Black Hat: We need agency focused on fixing internet’s problems
The country needs a federal agency akin to the National Institutes of Health in order to fix the problems with the internet, keynoter Dan Kaminsky told a record crowd of more than 6,400 at Black Hat.
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Black Hat: Kaminsky says Trump is a troll
Donald Trump is a troll looking to say whatever will stir up the most people, according to security expert Dan Kaminsky who delivered the keynote at Black Hat today.
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Black Hat: Be wary of HTTP/2 on Web servers
Researchers at Black Hat describe finding four flaws – now fixed - in the way the major server vendors implemented HTTP/2, but warn that the year-old Web protocol remains fertile ground for hackers seeking weaknesses in the way it’s rolled out.
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Black Hat: Kaspersky is seeking white hats
The security vendor has started up a bug-bounty program.
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