What you — and your company — should know about cyber insurance
By Jon Munshaw and Joe Marshall. It’s no longer a question of “if” any given company or organization is going to be hit with a cyber attack — it’s when. And when that attack comes, who is willing to take on that risk? For some groups, it may be that they feel they are fully pre
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Aspose APIs
Marcin Noga of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in various Aspose APIs. Aspose provides a series of APIs for manipulating or converting a large family of document formats. These vulnerabi
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple bugs in OpenWeave and Nest Labs Nest Cam IQ indoor camera
Lilith Wyatt and Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Cisco Talos recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Nest Cam IQ Indoor camera. One of Nest Labs’ most advanced internet-of-things devices, the Nest Cam IQ Indoor integrates Security-Enh
Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 15)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Sorry we missed you last week, we were all away at Hacker Summer Camp. If you missed us at Black Hat, we have a roun
Talos Black Hat 2019 flash talk roundup
Talos went wall-to-wall at Hacker Summer Camp, showing up to Black Hat and DEFCON with talks, challenges, advice and education. Over the course of two days at Black Hat, Cisco Security hosted more than 20 talks at our booth, many featuring Talos researchers and analysts. In cas
Microsoft Patch Tuesday — Aug. 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 97 vulnerabilities, 31 of which are rated “critical," 65 that are considered "important" and one "moderat
Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Executive summary VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion are affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that can be triggered using a specially crafted shader file. This vulnerability can be triggered from a VMwar
Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 1, 2019)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Are you heading to Vegas next week for Hacker Summer Camp? Talos will. We’ll be at Black Hat and DEFCON holding a se
New Re2PCAP tool speeds up PCAP process for Snort rules
By Amit Raut We often joke that for SNORT® rule development, you have to live by the saying “PCAP or it didn’t happen.” PCAP files are very important for Snort rule development, and a new tool from Cisco Taloscalled “Re2Pcap” allows users to generate a PCAP file in seconds jus