Cisco Umbrella Releases Free Top 1 Million Sites List

As a cloud security company, Cisco Umbrella — formerly OpenDNS, which Cisco acquired in late 2015 — operates data centers all over the world that serve 100 billion DNS requests daily for millions of customers. That large set of data…

‘Strip Everything Until It Breaks’: Why Simplicity and Empathy Should Be Driving the Security Industry

A New Norm: Massive, Sophisticated DDoS Attacks Are Now Commonplace

This year a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was clocked at more than 500 Gbps. The previous largest attack was 300Gbps. The increase in overall size, frequency and sophistication of these attacks are…

Why Your Security Team Needs an Incident Response Entourage

Researchers Apply Machine Learning to Catch Phish Before They Hatch

Security researchers at OpenDNS have figured out a way to apply machine learning and automation to shorten the verification of phishing sites to mere seconds, and block others that have not even launched.

Part 1: Machine Learning’s Promise for Cybersecurity

Cisco Researchers Detail ‘Hailstorm’ Spam Detection Method

Researchers from Cisco’s security research team Talos and the research team at OpenDNS have combined data and machine learning techniques to detect an evolved spamming technique the team has dubbed “hailstorm.”

‘It Could All Be a Myth’: Why Threat Intelligence Is So Crucial Yet So Misunderstood