privileged accounts

How companies continue to expose sensitive data to threats

April 4, 2018

A new study from the Varonis Data Lab found that on average, 21% of a company’s folders were accessible to every employee, and 41% of companies had at least 1,000 sensitive …

Privilege escalation on Unix machines via plugins for text editors

March 20, 2018

Several of the most popular extensible text editors for Unix environments could be misused by attackers to escalate privileges on targeted systems, SafeBreach researchers have …

Nearly half of security pros rarely change their security strategy, even after a cyber attack

March 1, 2018

Nearly half (46 percent) of IT security professionals rarely change their security strategy substantially – even after experiencing a cyber attack. This level of cyber …

Hijacking Windows user sessions with built-in command line tools

March 20, 2017

Did you know that by using built-in command line tools, any user with system rights and permissions (usually a local administrator) can hijack the session of any logged-in …

Removing admin rights mitigates most critical Microsoft vulnerabilities

February 23, 2017

Avecto has analyzed the security bulletins Microsoft released in the past year, and came to an important conclusion: an overwhelming majority of all the critical Microsoft …

Insider threat solution for rapid response to in-progress attacks

February 16, 2017

CyberArk announced at RSA Conference 2017 advanced insider threat detection capabilities available through the CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution, to automatically …

The everyday application interactions putting enterprises at risk

March 1, 2016

With greater awareness about the risks of unsecured privileged accounts allowing broad, anonymous access across the enterprise, privileged account security has become an …