Alerts
How scammers exploit Spring Break in the time of COVID-19
Millions of US students and their families have looked forward to a fun-in-the-sun vacation for months now. However, with the Coronavirus outbreak declared a worldwide pandemic, most have either postponed trips or ...
New Phishing Scam Lures iPhone Owners with Romantic Chat, Gambling, ‘Free’ VPN
Bitdefender this week has detected a new phishing campaign targeting iPhone owners with a range of scams aiming to defraud unsuspecting victims. First things first. If you receive the email pictured below, ...
Beware of GermanWiper – the ransomware that is not ransomware
A piece of wiper malware is making the rounds erasing people’s important files, with its authors demanding a modest ransom to restore the data. However, the ransomware campaign is a lie, and ...
Radical Transparency: Killing Managed Security Services’ Black-Box Approach
Enterprises have been turning to managed security services for years and are losing faith with the “black box” approach that has become the industry standard. Organizations are requesting answers to what should ...
U.S. Army, Towson University Aim to Advance Intrusion Detection
Researchers at the Army Research Lab (ARL) within the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command and Towson University are collaborating on an effort to make intrusion detection alerts more useful to cybersecurity ...
Enrich Your SIEM with Real-Time Event Contextualization
A sizable portion of security research has gone into creating security alerts that are effective at informing security analysts when certain events happen. For example: more than 50 failed SSH login attempts ...
Bitcoin Scammers Launch International Bomb Threat Hoax across US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
An emailed bomb threat hoax sent Thursday afternoon has terrorized businesses and organizations across the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Claiming to have planted bombs all over the building, the email ...
Gigamon Acquires ICEBRG to Meld Security, Network Monitoring
Gigamon announced it is expanding the scope of its cybersecurity monitoring efforts significantly by acquiring ICEBRG, a provider of a cloud-based threat detection service. The combination of the sensors ICEBRG deploys coupled ...
ZipperDown Programming Vulnerability Could Let Hackers Execute Code in iOS Apps
A recently discovered vulnerability in iOS applications could allow hackers to execute code within affected apps, provided the device is connected to an attacker-controlled Wi-Fi network. The number of potentially vulnerable applications ...
Automated security operations for managed security service providers (MSSP)
While the security automation conversation generally focuses on enterprise and government Security Operations Centers (SOC), one of the largest groups that can benefit from automation are managed security service providers (MSSP). MSSPs ...
