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Intelligent packet capture for increased network visibility
Lancope is unveiling its new PacketWatch solution for intelligent packet capture this week at Infosecurity Europe 2015. With the PacketWatch solution, large enterprises can …
1 in 4 UK PCs infected
“PandaLabs published its Quarterly Report for Q1, analyzing the IT security events and incidents from January through March 2015. The multinational security vendor …
Malvertising infected millions of users in 2015
“New research from Malwarebytes has found that malvertising is one of the primary infection vectors used to reach millions of consumers this year. The analysis looked at …
A fundamental shift in security spending
Firms are shifting their cyber security spend away from traditional Prevent & Protect approaches towards Detect & Respond operations, according to Pierre Audoin …
Confusion regarding strategic defenses for network security
RedSeal uncovered a high level of confusion regarding security issues in the network infrastructure. Nearly 60% of the 350 C-level executives surveyed believe they can …
Cookie warnings: Useless and bad for security?
Cookies are the official and standard and preferred way of keeping state in the (otherwise) stateless HTTP protocol. They are sometimes used for keeping track of a user beyond …
Week in review: Drone detection, crypto wars, and tracking wearable tech
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles:Sniffing and tracking wearable tech and smartphonesResearchers at Context Information …
If we want strong encryption, we’ll have to fight for it
As digital rights lawyer and special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation Marcia Hofmann correctly noted in her keynote at Hack in the Box Amsterdam 2015 on Thursday, …
The challenges of data classification
We are living in a data driven society with globalizing economies, data transfer, and ubiquitous access to everything from everywhere. From information gateways, websites, …
Exposing the vulnerabilities in Oracle PeopleSoft applications
During his talk at the Hack in the Box conference, Alexey Tyurin, Head of the Oracle Security Department at ERPScan, spotlighted several vulnerabilities in Oracle PeopleSoft …
Cybersecurity strategies and the boardroom
Cybersecurity has clearly become an important board-level priority. In fact, more than 80 percent of respondents to a NYSE Governance Services/Veracode survey reported that …
Complex security solutions are exposing companies to risk
Companies are putting their customers’ data at risk because IT teams do not have the expertise or time to deploy today’s complicated IT security products, a new survey from …
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