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Account takeover attacks are a nearly invisible tactic for conducting cyber espionage. Because these breaches can take months or years to detect, we are slowly discovering that this attack vector is much more common than we thought. The more we learn about new methodologies, the more we realize just how misunderstood account takeover attacks can [...]
At Palo Alto Networks, we constantly seek out new ways to achieve our mission to protect our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks. We analyze all the steps threat actors take to carry out their attacks and systematically add new protections to disrupt each step. By blocking threat actors’ every [...]
The most prominent data security events of 2017, such as WannaCry and Equifax, were direct results of poor patching practices. Now, 2018 is off to a menacing start with disclosure of two hardware vulnerabilities affecting most modern microprocessors and requiring a number of patches on several levels of defenses. To clarify, Meltdown is a vulnerability [...]
News of medical device security flaws are increasingly in the news. Consider the announcement from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration last year about a flaw in one model of a St. Jude Medical implantable pacemaker. This was subsequently covered in more than 14,000 published reports to date. Thirty-four different individuals sent me a message soon after [...]
