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Guy Fawkes Day: The State of Cybersecurity in the United Kingdom
“Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November.” So begins the infamous nursery rhyme associated with Great Britain’s Bonfire Night, or Guy Fawkes Day. The fifth of November has also become a holiday associated with hacktivist group Anonymous by using Fawkes’ mask as the iconic symbol of its movement. With that, there’s no…
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Infoblox CDC, Sharing is Caring!
by Kevin Zettel, Infoblox Technical Marketing Engineer For all the security analysts and architects in the world and for all the risk analysts, risk assessment and risk management folks and for everyone else in the security field, there is a single purpose that unites all of us together. That is to create a safer, more…
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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Starting with the Fundamentals of Cybercrime
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is turning 16 this October. This year’s theme is all about driving behavioral change and encouraging accountability to own IT, secure IT and protect IT. That’s a great theme because it should live at the core of any enterprise cyberdefence strategy. In order to own, secure or protect…
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How to Catch a RAT by the Tail
Sniffing out a RAT, or remote access Trojan, can be challenging for even the most prepared cyber defender. Cyberattackers continue to evolve their products and tactics to infect corporate systems as cybersecurity companies like Infoblox become increasingly aware of their tactics. Here’s an overview of this type of malware,…
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Cities Under Attack!
by Sunil Amanna, Infoblox Product Marketing Manager Threat actors are targeting municipalities with ransomware and many don’t know that it’s a huge risk. As described by the US Department of Homeland Security, ransomware is a type of malicious software, or malware, designed to deny access to a computer system or data until…
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Banking Trojans: What Financial Services Institutions Need to Know and How to Stay Protected
Fewer than 100 years ago, people had to physically walk to the bank to pay their bills and had no choice but to carry around loose change. Thanks to innovations in technology, banking services have come a long way since then. Consumers today can conduct almost all of their banking activities from computers or mobile…
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Aligning with NIST Cyber Security Framework Using Your Foundational Network Infrastructure Services
As IT infrastructures grow more complex with the advent of public/private clouds and internet of things (IOT), organizations are struggling to maintain a real-time view of what is on their network, quickly isolating/quarantining end-points compromised by malware and preventing sensitive data from being exfiltrated to…
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Meet Infoblox’s Cyber Intelligence Unit
Technology is engrained in almost every aspect of the workplace today. The use of laptops, mobile phones, and other connected devices is common place. Unfortunately, the proliferation of these technologies has also introduced new business risks and cybersecurity threats. Between 2018 and 2019, ransomware attacks against…
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2019 Cybersecurity Summer Travel Tips: Keeping Yourself Protected
Bags are packed, boarding passes are printed, and passports are in hand. Summer is officially here, and after months of planning the perfect getaway to a tropical paradise, overseas destination, or ComicCon, it’s finally time to head for vacation! Nothing could possibly go wrong—except for a potential cybersecurity attack…
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Detecting DGAs is like Forecasting Weather
By Philip Qian, Infoblox Senior Product Manager DGAs (Domain Generation Algorithms) are rendezvous domains for malware and hacker-controlled-servers to communicate, generated by rules or algorithms, usually encoded/encrypted and often have a short life span. Hackers use DGAs to evade the detection or blocking from static…
