cybersecurity
Total number of publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 down 58% compared to last year
The total number of publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 has decreased by 58% compared to the same period last year, Risk Based Security reveals. Publicly reported breaches …
Home workplaces introduce new risks, poor password hygiene
Entrust Datacard released the findings of its survey, which highlights the critical need to address data security challenges for employees working from home as a result of the …
vBulletin fixes critical vulnerability, patch immediately!
If you’re using vBulletin to power your online forum(s), you should implement the newest security patches offered by the developers as soon as possible. The patches fix …
Have you updated SaltStack Salt? Attacks are underway!
Have you updated your SaltStack Salt “masters” and made them inaccessible over the internet – or at least restricted access to them? Even though F-Secure …
Leveraging automation to maximize security budgets
With the economic impact of COVID-19 increasingly looking like an imminent recession and the way we do work altered perhaps forever, CIOs and CISOs will most likely be …
Are you sure you would never fall for a phishing scam?
We believe we are less likely than others are to fall for phishing scams, thereby underestimating our own exposure to risk, a cybersecurity study has found. The research also …
FIRST releases updated coordination principles for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has released an updated set of coordination principles – Guidelines for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and …
Ransomware on the rise, companies prioritizing disaster recovery
The rampant rise of ransomware persists, with 100% of respondents – who include ITOps, backup, disaster recovery and storage admins, application and workload owners in the …
Biometric device shipments revenue to drop by $2 billion
The pandemic is expected to cause a significant pushback on biometric device shipments, creating a major revenue drop of $2 billion over the course of 2020, according to ABI …
Open source algorithms for network graph analysis help discover patterns in data
StellarGraph has launched a series of new algorithms for network graph analysis to help discover patterns in data, work with larger data sets and speed up performance while …
May 2020 Patch Tuesday forecast: Time for a break?
It’s been a hectic month for everyone worldwide, but we may get a small break in the action this patch Tuesday. The forecast for May is looking light on updates, which will be …
The new cyber risk reality of COVID-19 operating mode
There’s little, if any, precedent for the time we’re experiencing right now with a pandemic changing the corporate landscape in profound ways. But while many are reacting in …