Microsoft has released an updated version of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), marking its latest bid to protect its corporate customers from hackers. EMET 5.0 is available from Microsoft now and adds a wealth of improved features. Key updates […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…
NEMA to receive $25,000 mitigation outreach contract from FEMA
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response FEMA plans to award a $25,000 firm fixed price 12-month contract to the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA), of Lexington, KY, to help develop an outreach program to local governments and communities which will help educate them about natural hazard risks and mitigation resources….
More Thoughts on Damage Mitigation as the New Defense
Earlier this month, Kelly Jackson-Higgins interviewed me for a Dark Reading article, Damage Mitigation as the New Defense. Kelly also sought perspectives from Richard Bejtlich (Mandiant), Neal Creighton (CounterTack), Bruce Schneier (BT Counterpane), George Kurtz (CrowdStrike), and Tim Rains (Microsoft Trustworthy Computing). In the article, Kelly explores “security’s new reality”,…
Verizon DBIR 2012 overview, attack mitigation strategies
Christopher Porter of Verizon explains some of the findings from the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report. This year, hacktivists had a big impact on the numbers. Attacks are mainly less sophisticated and more automated in nature, Porter said. View full post on Security Wire Weekly View full post on…
Alcatel-Lucent partner Arbor Networks on DDoS mitigation
Alcatel-Lucent is now offering a router with technology from Arbor Networks that defends against distributed denial-of-service attacks DDoS, the two companies announced yesterday. The companies have partnered to put Arbor’s Threat Management System (TMS), which filters out attack traffic, into Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 model router. It’s the first time that Arbor…
Duqu Mitigation, (Fri, Nov 4th)
There has been a lot of information published on Duqu over the past few days and it is likely exploiting a vulnerability in a Microsoft Windows component, the Win32k TrueType font parsing engine. Until a patch as been release to fix this vulnerability, the vulnerability cannot be exploited automatically via…
