Palo Alto Networks News of the Week

Here is all the top Palo Alto Networks news from the last week of January.

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Kate Taylor discusses why malvertising concerns her more than the average attack method, and what Palo Alto Networks does to help thwart malvertising threats.

On January 22 Adobe confirmed the existence of a Zero Day affecting Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.287 and assigned CVE-2015-0311 to it. This is the classic zero day scenario of exploitation in the wild before any vendor patch was available and here Yiftach Keshet explains how the uniqueness of Palo Alto Networks Traps blocks this vulnerability.

Joerg Sieber explains why standard web security won’t keep the Internet of Things safe.

CTB-Locker is a well-known ransomware Trojan used by crimeware groups to encrypt files on the victim’s endpoints, and demand ransom payment to decrypt the files back to their original state. Find out how Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Security Platform could have stopped this ransomware attack campaign, and how to protect yourself from CTB-Locker, even if you aren’t protected by the Enterprise Security Platform.

Rick Howard reviews the book "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon" by Kim Zetter, and discusses why it is Cybersecurity Canon-worthy, and gives his thoughts on Alan Turing and ‘The Imitation Game.’

Customer Spotlight: Game, set, match for Australian Open host, Tennis Australia. Find out why Palo Alto Networks is proud to play a role in the IT infrastructure that supports how Tennis Australia uses IT data to improve the experience of everyone from its own security team, to sports journalists covering the tournament, to customers looking to improve their backhands.

How well do you know your Zero Days and APTs? Take the challenge where knowledge of the worst threats out there could win you great prizes.

Palo Alto Networks founder and CTO Nir Zuk is making the rounds in Australia and New Zealand next week. Here is where you can catch him. You can also catch Nir on a recent edition of Patrick Gray’s Risky Business podcast. Listen here.

Headed to next week’s VMware Partner Exchange? Come visit Palo Alto Networks at booth #720, and at our lab to participate in, “Virtualized Data Center Security using Palo Alto Networks Next-generation Firewalls with VMware NSX,” hosted by Warby Warburton, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Palo Alto Networks.