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What makes advanced persistent threats (APTs) particularly dangerous? The name says it all. According to Symantec, “APTs are often highly sophisticated and more insidious than traditional attacks, relying on highly customized intrusion techniques.” While APTs differ from traditional threats, they leverage some of the same threat vectors. For example, they take advantage of today’s most…
Even before everyone was able to fully digest the impact of the massive Heartbleed virus, another large-scale vulnerability was announced. On April 26, Microsoft announced a major vulnerability in their Internet Explorer web browser affecting versions 6-11. This vulnerability could allow the remote execution of code due to the way IE accesses an object in…
On December 19th, Target confirmed that there was unauthorized access to payment card data of about 40 million credit and debit cards used in Target stores between November 27th and December 15th. On December 27th, the company confirmed reports that encrypted data containing debit card PIN numbers was also obtained but they maintain that this…
Do you have malware on your network? What about remote access tools? Are machines on your network connecting to a botnet? What about users visiting malicious web site? How do you even know? Odds are your current tools are not giving you a complete story about the malicious activity on your network. A recent Solera…
How many times have you gotten an email that had a strange looking link in it? We are all taught not to click on these. However, sometimes they seem legitimate and from what you would consider a trusted source. With so much happening in the cloud, of course there is a link you need to…
50 million customer records were stolen from Living Social. Were you one of them? If you’re one of the millions of people that like to look at their daily deals, then you likely were. While credit card information was not stolen or accessed, other personally identifiable information (PII) was. This includes names, email addresses, dates of…
