When you log in to Facebook this week, you may be greeted by a notification in your news feed titled “Protecting Your Information.” If you see one of these notifications, you may be among the potential 87 million users whose personal information was harvested from Facebook by Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm hired by President Trump’s 2016 election campaign. … [Read more...]
Marc Laliberte
Marc Laliberte is a Sr. Security Analyst at WatchGuard Technologies. Marc joined the WatchGuard team in 2012. Specializing in networking security technologies, Marc’s responsibilities include researching and reporting on modern information security trends.
With speaking appearances and regular contributions to online IT publications, Marc is a thought leader providing security guidance to all levels of IT personnel.
Twitter: @XORRO_
TLS 1.3 Is Coming and That’s Just Fine
This week, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formally approved TLS 1.3 draft 28 as a Proposed Standard, officially making it the latest revision of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The approval comes after four years of revision by the TLS Working Group and leaves TLS 1.3 only a few verified implementations away from receiving Internet Standard … [Read more...]
WatchGuard’s Q4 2017 Internet Security Report Released; Malicious Office Document Usage on the Rise
Today, WatchGuard Technologies released its quarterly Internet Security Report covering Q4 2017. Every quarter we examine anonymized data from our Firebox UTM appliances all across the world and report on the most common malware variants and network attacks that our appliances block. This gives valuable real-world information on the most common network and computer threats … [Read more...]
IoT Botnets Are Evolving – How Big Can They Get?
That’s a question many in the security industry have been asking themselves. IoT botnets are networks of insecure IoT devices like webcams and DVRs that have been taken over by a piece of malware and controlled by a single attacker. This nefarious practice grabbed the spotlight in 2016 when the Mirai botnet disrupted internet usage across the East Coast of the United States, … [Read more...]
Meltdown and Spectre CPU Vulnerabilities
On 3 January 2018, security researchers at Google, Graz University of Technology, and several other education institutions disclosed multiple vulnerabilities found in most modern Intel, AMD and ARM processors. The more severe vulnerability, Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754), appears isolated to Intel processors developed in the last 10 years. Spectre (CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753) on … [Read more...]
