Pwnie Express Pulse is a SaaS offering that uses custom hardware sensors to provide continuous network discovery, threat detection, risk assessment, and critical information about all security issues that should be resolved. After seeing Pulse in action, I can say that Pwnie Express came a long way from being a crowd pleaser at security …
Security operations teams are engaged in a constant struggle to keep up with the volume of security alerts, maintain the right skills, and manage incident response processes. They want quality information, presented in a way that makes it easy to grasp and react to quickly. They want not to be bogged down in security alerts, and not to spend …
Anyone in the information security industry who’s interested in Mac security probably knows who Patrick Wardle is. Apart from being Chief Security Researcher at Synack, he’s also the creator of a number of security tools for macOS, which he makes available for free on his Objective-See project site. He has recently scaled back at …
Phishing and spear-phishing emails are a constant threat to all users, but enterprises are positively inundated with them. “Most businesses will use a spam filter and anti-virus solutions, but unfortunately these cannot prevent all forms of email identity deception or stop social engineering attacks. The spam filter will stop malicious …
A new variant of the macOS malware Fruitfly has been found by security researcher Patrick …
It’s a cornerstone of military doctrine: when you focus too much on the last battle you faced, …
If your employees are using Google Groups to discuss issues and ideas, you might want to check whether the sharing setting for these groups is set to “Private”. According to RedLock researchers, many companies fail to do so, most …
There have been 2,227 publicly disclosed data compromise events since the beginning of the year through June 30th, according to Risk Based Security. While this is in keeping with the number of breaches disclosed mid-way through 2015 and 2016, …
Although third-party software libraries represent a majority of an application’s code, they account for less than seven percent of application vulnerabilities. Typically, applications contain both custom code – the code developed by an …
A new variant of the macOS malware Fruitfly has been found by security researcher Patrick Wardle on some 400 machines of (mostly) home users located in the US. Fruitfly: The first variant The malware was first flagged earlier this year, and …
UK teenagers are being encouraged to register in a cyber security training programme rolled out to help the nation address the risk of a future skills shortage. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)’s Cyber Schools …
A new variant of the macOS malware Fruitfly has been found by security researcher Patrick Wardle on some 400 machines of (mostly) home users located in the US. Fruitfly: The first variant The malware was first flagged earlier this year, and …
There have been 2,227 publicly disclosed data compromise events since the beginning of the year through June 30th, according to Risk Based Security. While this is in keeping with the number of breaches disclosed mid-way through 2015 and 2016, …
