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In recent years phishing activity has grown rapidly, with thousands of phishing sites popping for a virtual moment that last weeks, days or even hours, before becoming ineffective—either getting blacklisted by security providers, or brought down by internet providers and authorities, or (in most cases) both. In order to keep up with this dynamic, a significant portion of the...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the European Union’s new data regulation designed to provide individuals with rights and protections over their personal data that is collected or created by businesses or government entities. It unifies data protection regulation across all member states of the European Union (EU) and is set to replace the Data Protection Directive. The...

Centrify has been busy building innovative technology and powerful partnerships. This post will talk about a longtime partnership, cool tech, and a deeper level of integration. Centrify and Yubico have been partners for more than three years already and work together with joint customers, in the field, and at a corporate level. Centrify and Yubico U2F Integration To further its move...

The Centrify solution made great strides in 2017, chronicled in Part I of this blog. Product enhancements, combined with the market’s growing understanding of the essential role identity plays in effective cybersecurity propelled the business forward. Here are some additional business highlights: The Centrify/Ponemon study Early in 2017, Centrify sponsored a Ponemon research study to discover the business and financial impact of...

At the end of last year Mr. Jake Williams from aka @MalwareJake asked a very important question about Lack of visibility during detecting APT intrusions in twitter. Results show us that endpoint analysis is the most important part of any research connected with APTs. Also, for sure endpoint forensics is critical during any Incident Response (IR) because in many...

We conclude our series featuring women in tech at Imperva with an interview with Jerusalem Bicha, network operations team lead at Imperva. We talked about her path to a career in cybersecurity. Tell us how you got into cybersecurity. JB: I actually don’t have a degree. My career in cybersecurity happened by accident when I served in the Israeli Army. I...

During a year of high-profile breaches like Equifax, HBO and Uber, as well as the realization that Yahoo’s highly-publicized 2013 breach compromised the accounts of all three billion of its users, the tide started to turn in 2017. Organizations, industry experts, thought leaders, the media and even consumers began to understand the status quo simply isn’t working. Ideas like...

According to our data, cryptocurrency miners are rapidly gaining in popularity. In an earlier publication we noted that cybercriminals were making use of social engineering to install this sort of software on users’ computers. This time, we’d like to dwell more on how exactly the computers of gullible users start working for cybercriminals. Beware freebies We detected a number of similar...

.travle-big-table td{border:1px solid #eee!important}.travle-big-table td{padding: 10px;} At the end of September, Palo Alto released a report on Unit42 activity where they – among other things – talked about PYLOT malware. We have been detecting attacks that have employed the use of this backdoor since at least 2015 and refer to it as Travle. Coincidentally, KL was recently involved in an...

Nowadays, it’s all too easy to end up with malicious apps on your smartphone, even if you’re using the official Google Play app store. The situation gets even worse when you go somewhere other than the official store – fake applications, limited security checks, and so on. However, the spread of malware targeting Android OS is not limited to...