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
Threat Roundup for August 2 to August 9
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Aug. 2 and Aug. 9. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key
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 Roundup for July 26 to Aug. 2
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 26 and Aug. 2. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting ke
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
Malvertising: Online advertising's darker side
Executive summary One of the trickiest challenges enterprises face is managing the balance between aggressively blocking malicious advertisements (aka malvertising) and allowing content to remain online, accessible for the average user. The days of installing a basic ad blocker
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
Reverse-CTF, Snort rule challenge and more — What to expect from Talos at Defcon
Want to get up close and personal with Talos researchers? Then be sure to stick around for the second half of “Hacker Summercamp:” Defcon. After our series of talks at Blackhat, we’re headed elsewhere on the strip for Defcon. Specifically, we’ll have a huge presence at this yea