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Simjacker vulnerability actively exploited to track, spy on mobile phone owners

Following extensive research, AdaptiveMobile Security has uncovered a new and previously undetected vulnerability. This vulnerability is currently being exploited and is being used for targeted surveillance of mobile phone users. The vulnerability and its associated attacks have been named Simjacker as it involves the hijacking of SIM cards and threatens mobile phone users across the globe. What does Simjacker do? Simjacker extracts the location information of mobile phone users from vulnerable operators, retrieved using malicious … More →

AlertEnterprise’s Airport Guardian integration helps airports reduce vulnerability and risk

AlertEnterprise, the leading physical-logical security convergence software company, has successfully integrated its Airport Guardian software with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Record of Arrest and Prosecution Background (Rap Back) service. By integrating the Rap Back service, Airport Guardian software is designed to help airports significantly reduce vulnerability and risk in vetting the security backgrounds of job applicants and employees. The integration delivers real-time and continuous criminal history record checks (CHRC) during personnel selection and … More →

Securing the cloud: Visibility, compliance and vulnerability management

In this Help Net Security podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2019, Hari Srinivasan, Director of Product Management for Qualys, talks about the basics of securing your cloud. Here’s a transcript of the podcast for your convenience. Hello and welcome to today’s podcast. A bunch of questions are being thrown again about cloud security. Is the cloud inherently secure? Isn’t it too chaotic and elastic that implementing a security strategy is really tough? My name … More →

Greenbone introduces virtual appliances for vulnerability management

Greenbone, a leading provider of vulnerability analysis for IT networks, announced that its portfolio of vulnerability management (VM) products is now available via virtual appliances. Greenbone’s customers can now choose to deploy physical or virtual appliances, increasing flexibility and efficiency, while ensuring that data protection is always guaranteed. VM solutions identify and patch security-relevant vulnerabilities in IT systems, helping businesses reduce their exposure to risks and improving the overall resilience of their infrastructures. Greenbone’s entire … More →

Denim Group integrates Jenkins Plugin with ThreadFix vulnerability management platform

Denim Group, the leading independent application security firm, announced the latest version of their Jenkins Plugin to integrate with their flagship vulnerability management product, ThreadFix. This plugin will allow development teams to incorporate application security testing into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, encouraging teams to address security concerns in a flexible manner. ThreadFix allows organizations to manage their application security programs and address risks to business operations that could be affected by vulnerabilities … More →

Flexera unveils Vendor Patch Module for its Software Vulnerability Manager

Flexera, the software company that helps organizations realize technology’s power to accelerate their business, releases an add-on module for its popular Software Vulnerability Manager – Vendor Patch Module. The number of constant exploits, attacks and other software vulnerabilities has become unmanageable, and attempts to keep up can be overwhelming. Flexera Software Vulnerability Manager (SVM) was designed to identify these vulnerabilities and help prioritize remediation efforts. With the new Vendor Patch Module, organizations are able to … More →

1 in 10 open source components downloaded in 2018 had a known security vulnerability

This year’s Sonatype report reveals the best practices exhibited by exemplary open source software projects and commercial application development teams. As in years past, it also examines the rapidly expanding supply and continued exponential growth in consumption of open source components. For the fifth anniversary report, Sonatype collaborated with Gene Kim from IT Revolution, and Dr. Stephen Magill from Galois and MuseDev. Together with Sonatype, the researchers objectively examined and empirically documented, release patterns and … More →

Dell fixes high-risk vulnerability in pre-installed SupportAssist software

Dell pushed out fixes for a high-risk vulnerability in its pre-installed SupportAssist software and urges users who don’t have auto updating enabled to upgrade the software manually. About the vulnerability (CVE-2019-12280) Dell SupportAssist software, which comes pre-installed on most Dell laptops and computers running Windows, has administrator-level access to the operating system (via a signed driver) because it must be able to identify issues, run diagnostics, driver-update scans, and install drivers. In May, researcher Bill … More →

Arctic Wolf Managed Risk solution provides proactive vulnerability management services

Arctic Wolf Networks, a leading security operations center (SOC)-as-a-service company, announced the Arctic Wolf Managed Risk solution to provide proactive identification, analysis, and prevention of vulnerabilities. “Companies know that they need to reduce their attack surface, but they often don’t know where to begin. Arctic Wolf Managed Risk service helps companies make sense of their cyber risk profile, by continuously scanning internal/external networks and endpoints, and quantifying cyber risk-based vulnerabilities,” said Brian NeSmith, CEO and … More →

How organizations are managing vulnerability risks

Tripwire evaluated how organizations are managing vulnerability risks and found that more than one in four (27 percent) globally have been breached as a result of unpatched vulnerabilities, with an even higher rate in Europe (34 percent). Vulnerability management starts with visibility of the attack surface, and Tripwire’s report found that 59 percent of global organizations are able to detect new hardware and software on their networks within minutes or hours. However, this is a … More →