Advanced Persistent Threats or APTs have many definitions. In most cases it’s an over used and abused marketing term adopted by point solution security vendors to talk about their ability to stop “bad things.” The term most generally defines an adversary with formidable means, organization, and motivation: they’re on a mission. It is often associated Read more…
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, Operation Aurora
Earlier this week, the alleged mastermind behind Mariposa – one of the biggest viruses we’ve seen to date – was arrested in Slovenia. The investigation leading up to his capture is a perfect indicator of what we’re up against in our fight against cybercrime. It’s also another reason why we spend so much time educating Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Mariposa, Operation Aurora
The bane of most security assessment products is false positives. Sending security pros on a wild goose chase tied to false positives has a dramatic impact on productivity and morale. This is especially true when vetting detected malware from vulnerability scans. Keeping false positives to a minimum should be a top priority for vulnerability assessment Read more…
Tags: malware, McAfee Vulnerability Manager, Operation Aurora, Risk and Compliance
In today’s firewall market, you have a lot of choices. When was the last time someone was fired for buying a firewall? A firewall is typically a infrastructure purchase and considered a best practice. Firewalls have been around for almost 2 decades. The first commercial firewall was shipped by DEC SEAL in 1992…thank you Marcus Read more…
Tags: McAfee, Network Security, Operation Aurora
Operation Aurora continues to be a hot topic inside and outside of security circles. At this week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco many conversations are on the topic of the attacks that hit Google and dozens of other companies in January. During a talk this afternoon Stuart McClure and I discussed how the attackers in Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, intellectual property, kurtz, Operation Aurora, Risk and Compliance
In the heyday of mining it was common practice to take up to three canaries into the mineshaft to test the purity of the air. If any one bird showed signs of distress, it likely indicated that something was amiss and dangerous levels of carbon monoxide existed. So what does this have to do with Read more…
Tags: Compliance, Cybercrime, kurtz, McAfee Network Threat Response, Operation Aurora
Sophisticated, multi-vector attacks like Operation Aurora are now more pervasive and more difficult to detect than ever before, thanks in part to the emergence of Web 2.0 and the rapid growth of the internet. Already, in the weeks that have followed Operation Aurora, McAfee Labs has identified a number of derivative attacks based on publicly Read more…
Tags: global threat intelligence, GTI, Heuristics, Operation Aurora, Pre-detection, Whitelisting
McAfee just released a commissioned report, written by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, that shows what we’ve known to be true for a long time. Critical infrastructures ranging from electrical grids, to oil production facilities to telecommunications and transportation networks are under constant attack from cybercriminals. The new report reveals the cost and Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, kurtz, Operation Aurora, Public Sector, regulations, SCADA, Telecommunications
I know Operation Aurora got a lot of play over the past few weeks. While working with many of the companies that have been publicly or privately wrapped up in the Google / China hacking incident, it has been painfully clear that many have larger issues than just having been a victim of some insidious Read more…
Tags: DLP, kurtz, Operation Aurora
In these times of increasing zero day exploits such as ‘Operation Aurora’ organizations need to rely on security solutions that offer multiple layers of protection in order to have “Zero Hour” protection. As attacks become increasingly complex and use a variety of delivery methods and protocols, layers of protection will continue to be the most Read more…
Tags: Network Security, Operation Aurora
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