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The internet is consistently changing due to the popularity of applications, age of average users, ease of accessibility, and other countless reasons. This means that the internet traffic of 2010 has minimal resemblance to the internet traffic of 2020. So, when generating test traffic to validate…

Knowing the latency of market data received from exchanges is often critical to trading profitability or ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements for best execution. Although clearly an interest to algorithmic traders, others such as brokers and resellers of market data also need to…

It has been more than one month since the Microsoft Exchange Fixed Cryptographic Keys vulnerability (CVE-2020-0688) has been patched and, according to Kenna Security’s study, only 15% of the publicly exposed servers have been patched. The flaw resides in the reuse of the same cryptographic keys…

On March 11, Microsoft released its monthly software update for Microsoft Windows, an event commonly referred to as “Patch Tuesday”. This update contained the largest number of security patches in Microsoft’s history — totaling 115 vulnerabilities. Some of them were critical issues, such as CVE-…

Remember last year (seems so very long ago) when VC Shekhar Kirani displaced the term rockstar developer with his meme-tastic “10x Engineer”? The Tweet that started the 10x meme.For a while, Twitter and other social networks were on fire with 10x this and 10x that. Regardless of whether you…

This is the second blog in a series describing Ixia’s Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) Polymorphic Malware offering. In the first blog, we talked about polymorphic malware and how BreakingPoint now plays an important role in testing and validating network security controls for this threat…

I am fortunate to be at Keysight, a company that actually does care deeply about the wellbeing of the people that work there. The company is mandating that all employees who can do so without impacting their jobs work from home. Good for the employee, good for the company, good for the community.…

One of the most advanced weapons that cyber attackers use to evade detection is to employ mechanisms that mutate malicious codebases and derive new never-seen-before malware samples while retaining the original malicious functionality. This is commonly known as polymorphic malware. Given their…