Posts created by: Scott Simkin

Put yourself in the shoes of an attacker: Your objective is to infiltrate an organization, deploy ransomware and get paid. It is your job to launch the most effective, lowest cost attack possible, which also delivers the highest return. When adversaries balance the equation of effort versus potential reward, they are increasingly turning toward automated

The 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) represents the first time Palo Alto Networks has contributed data to this important publication, and we are proud to be part of an intelligence-sharing ecosystem that, in the end, raises the collective bar for everyone in the industry. While reviewing the findings, a few key points stood

Summary Critical vulnerability (CVE-2014-1776) identified in Internet Explorer, with active attacks observed in the wild IE vulnerability could be used to exploit multiple versions of Internet Explorer, including those on Windows-XP based systems, which no longer receive security updates from Microsoft Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention customers are protected from exploitation of the vulnerability Cyvera endpoint