The WannaCry virus is giving the Travelocity Gnome a run for his money as world traveler, recently popping up in a Honda plant in Sayama, Japan, and just yesterday, hitting the network of a company that controls Australian traffic cameras. More than fifty cameras, most located in the inner-city of Melbourne, were infected with the virus. According to a recent BBC article, a … [Read more...]
“Fileless” Ransomware – Daily Security Byte
Fileless malware is a recent type of malware that tries to evade detection by deleting all hard copies of its files, and just residing in a process running in memory. Fileless attacks can go even further by leveraging a software exploits to get themselves in memory without dropping any file at all. Unfortunately, cyber criminals have combined the stealthy nature of fileless … [Read more...]
Steganography Primer – Daily Security Byte
Rather than talk about security news, today's video gives you a quick lesson on steganography--the practice of concealing secret messages in other data. If you follow the blog, you may have seen Marc Laliberte's post on Historical Cryptographic Ciphers. If not, I highly recommend you read it to learn how the original cryptographic ciphers worked, and evolved over time. Not only … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Positioned as the Only Visionary for Third Consecutive Year in Magic Quadrant for UTM
WatchGuard is the only company to be positioned in the Visionary quadrant, for the third year in a row. We believe this validates our ability to provide widely deployable enterprise-grade security to SMB and Distributed Enterprise customers. By choosing WatchGuard you choose reliability, flexibility and a future-proof networking security solution. Our award-winning UTM … [Read more...]
Fact-Checking Some of the Security Industry’s Flashiest Hacks
Hackers can pull off amazing feats in the connected age, from hacking cars and medical devices to interfering with major industrial systems and public utilities. Exaggerated versions of these hacks show up in movies, TV shows and novels, but are these flashy attacks actually possibly in the real world? Marc Laliberte, Information Security Threat Analyst here at WatchGuard, … [Read more...]
