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SecureX cloud platform launched by Cisco for improved security visibility

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Cisco on Monday unveiled SecureX, a new cloud-native security platform that aims to give businesses better visibility across their security portfolio via analytics and workflow automation. Cisco said SecureX will unify visibility into a company’s existing security products, including those from Cisco and third-party providers. The platform can analyze data across endpoints, cloud, network, and applications, allowing customers …

CiSCO Study reveals Security leaders rely on and invest in automation, Machine Learning & AI to fight threats

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Findings show 39 percent of organizations are reliant on automation, 34 percent are reliant on machine learning, 32 percent are highly reliant on AI SAN JOSE, Calif. – Malware sophistication is increasing as adversaries begin to weaponize cloud services and evade detection through encryption, used as a tool to conceal command-and-control activity. To reduce adversaries’ …

Cisco partners with Interpol to share data on cyber criminals

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Just one day after Amazon Web Service (AWS) announced a “secret” cloud service for the CIA, another tech company is aligning itself with a government agency. Cisco will now share “cybercrime” data with the international police network Interpol, the company announced Tuesday. That data includes “threat intelligence” to support Interpol’s work “targeting both ‘pure cybercrime’ and …

CISCO to Obama, Stop NSA from hacking my equipment

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(Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc’s chief executive officer has written a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to curtail government surveillance after evidence circulated showing the National Security Agency had intercepted Cisco equipment, a company spokesman said on Sunday. In a letter dated May 15, John Chambers, chief executive officer and chairman of the …

After 20 years, DomainTools takes its first VC dough

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DomainTools has taken a “significant” investment from a venture capital firm, the first outside funding its received in its 20-year history. The amount of the investment is undisclosed, but DomainTools said its investor is Battery Ventures. Battery already owns stakes in numerous software and technology companies, but this appears to be its first foray into …

Companies pull the plug on facial recognition, but major issues linger

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In response to protest calling for police reform around the country, some of the biggest names in tech are taking a closer look at their facial recognition technologies. In recent weeks, protests calling for police and criminal justice reform continue to sweep the Untied States. These demonstrations have also spurred conversations surrounding flawed, racially-biased technologies …

Spam Rising? Emonet World’s baddest botnet is back with stolen passwords and email

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If you’ve noticed an uptick of spam that addresses you by name or quotes real emails you’ve sent or received in the past, you can probably blame Emotet. It’s one of the world’s most costly and destructive botnets—and it just returned from a four-month hiatus. Emotet started out as a means for spreading a bank-fraud …

Court filing reveals Facebook didn’t warn users of known risks before 2018 breach

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Facebook users suing the world’s largest social media network over a 2018 data breach say it failed to warn them about risks tied to its single sign-on tool, even though it protected its employees, a court filing on Thursday showed. Single sign-on connects users to third-party social apps and services using their Facebook credentials. The …

Google Nest Cam IQ can be used to hijack the camera, leak data

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The Google Nest Cam IQ Indoor camera contained a plethora of security vulnerabilities which could be used to hijack or disrupt the device. On Monday, Lilith Wyatt and Claudio Bozzato from the Cisco Talos research team said a set of major vulnerabilities in the Nest Cam IQ, one of a selection of home security and …