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S3 Ep136: Navigating a manic malware maelstrom
by Paul Ducklin A PYTHON PERSPECTIVE VORTEX No audio player below? Listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and...
Ransomware tales: The MitM attack that really had a Man in the Middle
by Paul Ducklin It’s taken more than five years for justice to be served in this case, but the cops and the courts got there in the end. The UK law enforcement office SEROCU, short for South East Regional Organised Crime Unit, this week reported the peculiar tale of...
Building the foundation for a sustainable data center
Today, every organization should focus on sustainability. For the planet and for the business. And data centers should be a key focus of any sustainability strategy. Energy-hungry and heat-generating data-center servers and switches draw up to 2 percent of...
Talking Offensive Security with Lurene Grenier
When it comes to battling cybersecurity attackers, Lurene Grenier is all about offense. As Director of Security Architecture at Cisco Talos, she has spent her career analyzing state-sponsored actor trends, writing detection to block those threat actors, and in...
PyPI open-source code repository deals with manic malware maelstrom
by Paul Ducklin Public source code repositories, from Sourceforge to GitHub, from the Linux Kernel Archives to ReactOS.org, from PHP Packagist to the Python Package Index, better known as PyPI, are a fantastic source (sorry!) of free operating systems, applications,...
Phone scamming kingpin gets 13 years for running “iSpoof” service
by Naked Security writer In November 2022, we wrote about a multi-country takedown against a Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) system known as iSpoof. Although iSpoof advertised openly for business on a non-darkweb site, reachable with a regular browser via a non-onion...
A ‘Cisco Island’ for Digital Nomads
In the hybrid-work era, people can connect from just about anywhere. So, why not a Greek island with dramatic, rocky coastlines and stunning, turquoise seas? For three months, 17 Cisco workers from all corners of Europe have been doing just that. As part of a program...
World Bee Day: Meet Cisco’s Connected Bees in Amsterdam
We have already shared a lot about the beehives at Cisco’s Research Triangle Park (RTP) North Carolina campus on this blog. Now it is time to buzz across the Atlantic Ocean and learn more about the sweet things we are doing with technology and bees at Cisco Amsterdam....
Apple’s secret is out: 3 zero-days fixed, so be sure to patch now!
by Paul Ducklin Remember that zipped-lipped but super-fast update that Apple pushed out three weeks ago, on 2023-05-01? That update was the very first in Apple’s newfangled Rapid Security Response process, whereby the company can push out critical patches for key...