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Why did we need this? The Short-Lived Nature of Malware. The most advanced malware are extremely capable shapeshifters. Malware coders generally implement several mechanisms to change malware after a certain duration of time to evade detection. This basically means that it’s not as useful to test…

For anyone who’s experienced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, it is now clear that successful mitigations require the right mitigation technology, excellent processes and procedures, and well-trained security personnel. While cloud providers enable a variety of options to build cost-…

Have you ever started a scripting project not knowing where to go to learn more? Or been stumped by an API wondering what commands to send and in which order? These challenges to automation are universal. And no matter how good the API documentation, nothing replaces practical real-world examples…

By definition, clouds remove the need to manage underlying compute resources. But this also introduces a new architectural layer that can be difficult to seen through and is a perennial challenge for those defending company networks. Securing the network is not a one-and-done process, but more like…

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing EVERYTHING. There are literally billions of IoT devices around us today, with hundreds more coming online each second. By 2020, there will be roughly 50 billion connected devices. As part of that growth, the IoT is evolving from a focus on consumer-based…

Introduction Since the Mirai source code release and our subsequent investigation, many variants have appeared, each with small evolutionary changes. Examples include adding SSH support, improving username and password wordlists, and adding router web management vulnerabilities (for example this…

Synopsis: The science-fiction-turned-reality of self-driving cars is making headlines. This article explains how the underlying technologies works in an understandable way, so you can dazzle your friends at parties as if you were a data scientist. We will also speculate about how self-driving cars…

Organizations worldwide face a dangerous shortage of network security personnel that have the skills required to defend against cyber attacks. This urgent situation is made worse by the weaknesses and vulnerabilities that continue to pervade critical IT infrastructures—despite billions of dollars…