ZeroFOX introduces new social media and digital protection managed services platform

ZeroFOX launches ZeroFOX OnWatch, a managed monitoring and protection service designed to help companies safeguard themselves against threats plaguing a broad range of platforms, including social media and digital platforms, the surface web, deep and d… Continue reading ZeroFOX introduces new social media and digital protection managed services platform

Photo gallery: Black Hat USA 2018

Black Hat USA 2018 is underway at Las Vegas. Here are a few photos from the Business Hall and the Arsenal. Featured companies: ZeroFOX, LogRhythm, Qualys, Rapid7, Irdeto, Whitesource, Bitdefender, Splunk.
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ZeroFOX announces TIP integrations providing social media security coverage

ZeroFOX unveiled three new integrations with Anomali, ThreatConnect and ThreatQuotient, enabling customers to better prevent, detect, respond to and recover from social media-based threats. By integrating ZeroFOX with TIPs and SIEMs, ZeroFOX bridges th… Continue reading ZeroFOX announces TIP integrations providing social media security coverage

RSA 2018 – Chaos Engineering

When surrounded with chaos, it is normal to cling to that which is comforting like a NGFW or SIEM.
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News – Startup Security Weekly #47

ZeroFOX, Deep Instinct, Flashpoint, Symantec acquired Skycure for an undisclosed amount, RiskLens and Nok Nok Labs raised $8M series D. Startup Articles & Discussion[edit] Five questions brands need to answer to be customer first in the digital age ==> 3 Essential (And 1 Surprising) Components Of A Successful Sales Strategy ==> knowing who isn’t a fit is […]

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Porn Spam Botnet Has Evil Twitter Twin

Last month KrebsOnSecurity published research into a large distributed network of apparently compromised systems being used to relay huge blasts of junk email promoting “online dating” programs — affiliate-driven schemes traditionally overrun with automated accounts posing as women. New research suggests that another bot-promoting botnet of more than 80,000 automated female Twitter accounts has been pimping the same dating scheme and ginning up millions of clicks from Twitter users in the process. Continue reading Porn Spam Botnet Has Evil Twitter Twin

Porn Spam Botnet Has Evil Twitter Twin

Last month KrebsOnSecurity published research into a large distributed network of apparently compromised systems being used to relay huge blasts of junk email promoting “online dating” programs — affiliate-driven schemes traditionally overrun with automated accounts posing as women. New research suggests that another bot-promoting botnet of more than 80,000 automated female Twitter accounts has been pimping the same dating scheme and ginning up millions of clicks from Twitter users in the process. Continue reading Porn Spam Botnet Has Evil Twitter Twin

Social media security and surveillance firm ZeroFOX raises $40M investment

ZeroFOX, one of the most prominent American social media security and surveillance companies, announced a $40 million Series C investment Wednesday that signals major growth in demand from governments and companies to keep a close eye — often with an artificial-intelligence brain behind it — on social media networks. The Baltimore-based startup’s products help manage what it calls “social media risk.” ZeroFOX sells “targeted collection of mass social and digital data” to customers in over 24 countries. “Social media risk” is a purposefully vanilla marketing term that at its core means an increasingly broad domain involving everything from malware campaigns and account takeovers to political action, cyberattacks and incidents in the physical world. Social media is an increasingly effective attack vector, as evidenced by a recent social media espionage campaign against the Defense Department that involved links from a robot Twitter account.   The new money will go toward sales, marketing […]

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