February 8, 2012 - This post discusses the recent detainment of two young British tourists in Los Angeles, California who were suspected of planning terroristic and other criminal activities due to the a misunderstanding of their Twitter messages (aka tweets). Read more
February 3, 2012 - Walter Sulym from the Cisco IPS team explains the signature retirement process and how the default configuration is determined. Read more
February 1, 2012 - How many times have we encountered a situation where some part of the software industry starts small, in a closed environment, then grows and attracts a lot of attention before realising that things were not designed properly for this changed (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - The Cisco 4Q11 Global Threat Report has been released. The report covers the period from 1 October 2011 through 31 December 2011 and features data from across Cisco Security Intelligence Operations. This quarter’s contributors were Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), (continue reading...) Read more
January 18, 2012 - Prelude In this short article the reader will first learn what NetFlow is and how it works. Next the reader Read more
January 13, 2012 - The threat landscape is an ever evolving environment that must be addressed with constant iteration. Since the Cisco Intrusion Prevention System signature configuration has grown over the past few years, the Cisco Security Research and Operations IPS Signature Development Team (continue reading...) Read more
January 4, 2012 - This post discusses the potential safety issues surrounding some of the new user interfaces, e.g. touch screens, found in automobiles today. Read more
December 21, 2011 - It is certainly a new day and age for many aspects of today’s society. One prominent sector that continues to lead by example in this area is the Internet, more specifically the online shopping environment. Note that online shopping is (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2011 - This post focuses on the recent simultaneous publication of the Cisco 2011 Annual Security Report and the Cisco Connected World Technology Report Chapter 3. Several highlights from the reports focus on the shifting technologies, expectations, and employee behaviors already (continue reading...) Read more
December 12, 2011 - In response to the recent push to move websites that contain adult content into the .xxx sponsored top level domain (sTLD) in order to easily classify them this post discusses the merits of creating a ".kid" sTLD that will be (continue reading...) Read more
December 7, 2011 - It's happening every day. People are inadvertently sharing one of the most personal and private pieces of information, the infamous social security number (SSN). For Jonathan Barnett, the unbelievable became a reality when he discovered that nearly 50 names were (continue reading...) Read more
December 5, 2011 - The Cyber Risk Report for November 7 to 13 covered the second consecutive Social Engineering Capture the Flag event that was organized by Defcon 19 (a prominent industry "underground" security conference). The event proposes a challenge to competitors with the (continue reading...) Read more
November 30, 2011 - Black holes, from a network security perspective, are placed in the network where traffic is forwarded and dropped. When an attack has been detected, black-holing can be used to drop all attack traffic at the edge of an Internet service (continue reading...) Read more
November 28, 2011 - For those not familiar with the product, ScanSafe offers web security solutions to organizations ranging from global enterprises to small businesses. The service provides multiple layers of malware protection and acceptable use controls to block users from specific websites and (continue reading...) Read more
November 21, 2011 - Either someone is doing some serious academic work in researching password strengths, or someone is building a really great hashed password dictionary. The Steam community forum compromise, in which attackers gained access to a database containing usernames, encrypted passwords, (continue reading...) Read more
November 14, 2011 - Nearly all of us depend on public key infrastructure (PKI) when we engage in secure transactions on the Internet. Digital certificates, most commonly based on ITU standard X.509, are used to prove that one is communicating with an intended website (continue reading...) Read more
November 4, 2011 - Through this year's theme—“From Basics to Advanced - Addressing Security Threats From a Customer's Perspective”—we addressed many security measures that we focus on to help Cisco and our customers to be more secure. We covered vital aspects of product security, (continue reading...) Read more
November 4, 2011 - The Cisco Security Knowledge Empowerment (SKE) team was recently honored by the SANS Institute with a National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for their efforts to raise awareness and champion the importance of “baking security in” to Cisco's IT initiatives. Read more
November 2, 2011 - Okay, this may sound like gibberish. But I’m sure that many of you know what I mean. Just to be clear, let me put the title in plain English: Mobile Device Management (MDM) is not the only approach to help (continue reading...) Read more
November 1, 2011 - As our customers and partners well know, security has been front-of-mind for Cisco this year. As far back as February, Read more