Virtualization’s continued journey across the enterprise led inevitably to security Enhanced security benefits using virtualization are powerful and compelling Virtualization takes the security responsibility off users and delivers control to IT Detection-based security doesn’t work. It’s an exhausted concept. The battle’s been waged for 30 years and the c

It’s Monday. On the West Coast, Black Hat is over and if you traveled, you should be home. If you didn’t travel, it’s still Monday and there are things to be done. And August starts tomorrow – so you might be thinking, “Bah, let’s get through August and then I’ll refocus.” Not so fast. This is a round tuit. Y

As we explained in our “Survival Guide for Million-Dollar Cyberattacks”, cyberheists are evolving at breakneck speed. For financial institutions, this is obviously a major concern. These institutions are coming up against ever more sophisticated malware and very well coordinated, and, in short, completely professionalized targeted attacks. In fact, according

The DNS (Domain Name System) is the keystone of the proper functioning of the internet. Each time you access your email or your Facebook, you’re using it. So when a DNS server is under attack and inaccessible, every website that it supports also becomes unavailable. DNS attacks have already had a major impact in the functioning of companies, and it turns out

Many infosec professionals joined Las Vegas to attend the BlackHat security conference. As I’m not part of those lucky people so I’m waiting for the presentations (they are published when the talk is completed). But I don’t have time to lose sitting in front of my computer and pressing F5… So let’s crawl them automatically…

May 25, 2018 will mark a “before and after” in the field of data protection legislation. That day will see Europe’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) come into effect. Although the date of its entry into force was 25 May 2016, when the two-year transition period stipulated by the legislation is up, any company that violates the requirements of this r

CrowdStrike Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, announced the fastest and largest cybersecurity search engine. Security firm CrowdStrike, the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, announced a significant improvement of its Falcon platform that has been integrated with a powerful cybersecurity search engine. According to the com

EU digital chief Andrus Ansip announced new measures to improve EU cyber security, including new offices to certify cybersecurity of technology products. The EU digital chief Andrus Ansip announced his plan to set up a new office to certify the level of cyber security implemented in technology products. The European Commission vice-president is thinking of a

The Debian Project announced the Debian 9.1 GNU/Linux, a version that brings numerous updates and addresses many security issues. The Debian Project announced the new Debian 9.1 release that includes 26 security fixes. The list of fixed problems includes the Heimdal Kerberos man-in-the-middle vulnerability, a 20 years-old vulnerability in Kerberos that was p

In almost every family, there is a little security routine that people do before they leave their property. In many cases, it involves checking out if all the windows are closed and if the lights and the oven are not on. Even if you have a security system setup, you want to make sure your windows are closed in case there is rain; no one enjoys seeing ruined

How can you protect yourself against phishing? Email is one of the most popular ways people stay in touch, for both at work and at home. One report found that there were 205 billion emails sent every day in 2015 – and this is expected to rise to 246 billion by 2019. Much of our day-to-day business is conducted online now – take banking for instance. Many ban

So far in 2017, ransomware has been the star cyberattack, with two back-to-back incidents in recent months that were unprecedented in their size and scope. This malicious software encrypts files from computers and blocks them until a ransom is received, usually in the form of bitcoin, an untraceable virtual cryptocoin. The now famous Wannacry attack affected

Cisco has fixed nine serious remote code execution flaws in the SNMP subsystem running in all the releases of IOS and IOS XE software. The tech giant publicly disclosed the vulnerability on June 29 and provided workarounds, not it is notifying customers about the availability of security patches. The nine issues, that have been tracked with codes from CVE-20

The deployment of encryption in modern businesses does not only guarantee hundred percent security but it also reduces the surface of attack. Data protection has become the top objective for many businesses in the world today. Especially after the ransomware incident, hacked credit card databases and the Apple leak. Businesses are scratching their heads in a

SAP has released its SAP Security Notes for July 2017 that includes 23 patches, the most severe is a SAP POS flaw that affects about 500 billion installs SAP has released its Security Notes for July that includes 23 patches with the majority of them rated medium. The most severe issue is a high-risk DoS vulnerability that affects SAP Point of Sale, a solutio