The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire

Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world’s largest companies — just by spoofing an email. This is the nature of a threat vector recently removed by a Fortune 500 firm that operates one of the world’s largest Internet backbones. Continue reading The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire

CenturyLink partners with McAfee to provide home digital protection for new customers

McAfee and CenturyLink announced that CenturyLink has selected McAfee to provide complete home digital protection for new customers of the company’s leased modems. For qualifying CenturyLink consumer and small business customers, innovative protection … Continue reading CenturyLink partners with McAfee to provide home digital protection for new customers

Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?

Emergency 911 systems were down for more than an hour on Monday in towns and cities across 14 U.S. states. The outages led many news outlets to speculate the problem was related to Microsoft’s Azure web services platform, which also was struggling with a widespread outage at the time. However, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity the 911 issues stemmed from some kind of technical snafu involving Intrado and Lumen, two companies that together handle 911 calls for a broad swath of the United States. Continue reading Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?

To improve incident response, you need to consider 3rd party solutions

Organizations reported an average 32% reduction in threat responder workload when they deployed a managed SIEM solution, according to CenturyLink and IDG. Improve incident response The research shows security leaders are turning to managed security ser… Continue reading To improve incident response, you need to consider 3rd party solutions

Threat visibility is imperative, but it’s even more essential to act

Cyberthreats are escalating faster than many organizations can identify, block and mitigate them. Visibility into the expanding threat landscape is imperative, but according to a new threat report released by CenturyLink, it is even more essential to a… Continue reading Threat visibility is imperative, but it’s even more essential to act

CenturyLink partners with Google Cloud to help enterprises accelerate innovation

As global enterprises count on dynamic networks to connect to the cloud, CenturyLink is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to help drive digital transformation for companies. The partnership enables CenturyLink to combine a leading public clou… Continue reading CenturyLink partners with Google Cloud to help enterprises accelerate innovation

Photo gallery: RSA Conference 2018 Expo

RSA Conference 2019 is underway at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Check out our microsite for the conference for all the most important news. Here are a few photos from the Expo floor. Featured vendors include: Anomali, ObserveIT, ZeroFOX, Corero… Continue reading Photo gallery: RSA Conference 2018 Expo