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VirusTotal Intelligence, a search engine for malware | Salted Hash Ep 45
In this episode, host Steve Ragan talks with Karl Hiramoto, technical solutions consultant for VirusTotal, maker of VirusTotal Intelligence, a searchable detection tool for malware.
VMware sharpens security focus with vSphere Platinum, ‘adaptive micro-segmentation’
VMware expands its security range with vSphere Platinum -- a new version of its virtualization software that has security integrated into the hypervisor.
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Detecting bot attacks | Salted Hash Ep 44
In this episode, host Steve Ragan talks with Engin Akyol, CTO at Distil Networks at the Black Hat 2018 conference, about bot account takeovers and how they can be detected.
Security serves as an essential component to growing an enterprise with SD-WAN
Adopting productivity-enhancing applications across the network creates a need for dynamic data protection. What decision makers should understand about the intersection of security and SD-WAN and keeping data not only accessible, but...
What is Nmap? Why you need this network mapper
While there is a wealth of monitoring tools available to network administrators for port scanning and network mapping, Nmap is the de facto standard. Here's why.
How to protect your infrastructure from DNS cache poisoning
When your company’s internet access, VoIP and email all depend on DNS, you have to ensure your DNS server is protected against DNS spoofing attacks. One solution: DNSSEC.
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How the L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability affects Linux systems
The L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) affects Intel processors and thereby Linux systems. Learn what this vulnerability is all about and what Linux users should do about it.
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Blue Team Village, DEF CON 2018 | Salted Hash Ep 43
Host Steve Ragan talks to Munin, a staffer at the DEF CON Blue Team Village about what's happening and what you can expect.
The rise of next-generation network packet brokers
Next-generation network packet brokers enable organizations to be agile and to align their IT strategies with business initiatives.
Chip maker TSMC will lose millions for not patching its computers
Chip-making giant TSMC will lose hundreds of millions of dollars for failing to patch its Windows 7 computers, which were infected by the WannaCry virus.
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An inside look at hybrid Office 365 phishing attacks | Salted Hash Ep 41
In this episode, Steve Ragan shows what a hybrid phishing attack looks like as it starts off on one service, and quickly moves to another.
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What is a phishing kit? Watch this in-depth explainer | Salted Hash Ep 39
What is a phishing kit? In this video, Steve Ragan offers an answer and a look at some of the kits Salted Hash has collected.
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An introduction to Kit Hunter, a phishing kit detector | Salted Hash Ep 40
Kit Hunter, a basic Python script written by host Steve Ragan, searches on common tag elements to find hidden phishing kits on a web server.
Cisco pays cool $2.3 billion for hot security company Duo
Cisco says integration of its network, device and cloud security platforms with Duo Security’s zero-trust authentication and access products will let customers quickly secure users to any application on any networked device.
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A white paper details how to apply authentication methods that strengthen security while delivering an excellent user experience.
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Conversation hijacking attacks | Salted Hash Ep 38
Troy Gill, manager of security research at AppRiver, explains conversation hijacking attacks, or CHAs, with host Steve Ragan, including who is typically targeted and how to prevent them.
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Phishing problems: 3.2M emails blocked in a month | Salted Hash Ep 37
Asaf Cidon, vice president of email security at Barracuda Networks, talks with host Steve Ragan about a recent uptick in phishing attacks, including a spike in business email compromise (BEC) attacks.
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Q&A: Jeff Wilbur of the Online Trust Alliance on why enterprise IoT security is a lot like BYOD
Enterprise IT departments are seeing odd echoes of the problems they faced during the early BYOD era in the entrance of IoT technology into the enterprise, where one of the principal threats is the use of consumer-grade (read:...
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