December 6, 2016 Application Security, Research Deepak Patel, Matan Lion, Nadav Avital Can the Phishing Menace be Reined in? Phishing is the starting point for most data breaches. People are the weakest link to an organization’s security posture. Current approaches to controlling the proliferation of phishing have shown no...
November 13, 2016 Application Security, Research Nadav Avital, Deepak Patel, Matan Lion How IP Reputation Blocks Zero Day Vulnerabilities: Privilege Escalation Exploits Blocked Before Patching Joomla! CVE-2016-8870 & CVE-2016-8869 This blog analyzes the privilege escalation vulnerability in Joomla! CMS and its exploitation in the wild. Based on the attack traffic, we show the statistics of...
October 24, 2016 Application Security Deepak Patel Breaking Down the Dyn DDoS Attack On Friday Oct. 21, 2016, a DDoS attack shut down several popular internet sites. Users experienced slow access or no service to Twitter, Spotify, Shopify, SoundCloud, Reddit and The New...
October 22, 2016 Data Security Deepak Patel Ransomware: A legitimate threat to enterprise data Earlier this year, researchers at the Imperva Defense Center followed the money trail on CryptoWall 3.0 – one of the most widespread ransomware menaces to date. The results were astounding,...
October 11, 2016 Application Security, Research Deepak Patel, Shelly Hershkovitz, Itsik Mantin Tor anonymity increasing the effectiveness of web scraping campaigns Researchers at the Imperva Defense Center analyzed traffic from a single Tor exit node and have created a series of blogs that describe the results. This second blog focuses on...
September 9, 2016 Data Security, Application Security, Insider Threats Deepak Patel Join us at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit Enjoy the last few days of summer in London by joining us at the Gartner Security Summit. At the summit, we will challenge today’s security thinking, learn about the top...
