security testing
Most IT pros find red team exercises more effective than blue team testing
More than one-third of security professionals’ defensive blue teams fail to catch offensive red teams, a study from Exabeam reveals. The survey, conducted at Black Hat USA …
Organizations that scan applications in production have a reduced risk of being breached
Despite a significantly increased focus on application security testing, remediation rates for vulnerabilities continue to shrink, according to WhiteHat Security. Setu …
Microsoft’s Attack Surface Analyzer now works on Macs and Linux, too
Microsoft has rewritten and open-sourced Attack Surface Analyzer (ASA), a security tool that points out potentially risky system changes introduced by the installation of new …
Quality Assurance and Testing is a bottleneck to implementing DevOps for many organizations
The practice of Continuous Testing – the process of fast and efficient validation of software releases in agile developments through highly automated tests – is gaining ground …
Two thirds of Android antimalware apps are ineffective or unreliable
Choosing an effective Android antimalware app is a shot in the dark for many users and they may end up in more danger of malicious apps, not less. In fact, as the results of …
Should you trust that Chrome extension? Use CRXcavator to decide
Duo Security has released CRXcavator, a tool that can help end users and enterprises make an informed decision about installing a specific Chrome extension. About CRXcavator …
Making informed decisions: The importance of data driven security
When deciding what product to buy, the information the vendor offers about the product is helpful, but not nearly enough: you need to analyze individual product results and …
Which SD-WAN product should enterprises choose?
Adoption of Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) has reached an inflection point and nearly every distributed business is deploying, evaluating, or planning to …
Automating web app testing to secure your environment
In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2018, Dave Ferguson, Director, Product Management for Web Application Security at Qualys, talks about the challenges and benefits of …
Hacking for fun and profit: How one researcher is making IoT device makers take security seriously
We should all be so lucky to enjoy our work as much as Ken Munro does. Generally attracted by research that “looks fun” and particularly interested in probing the …
Five smart TVs tested for security, privacy issues
As more and more smart TVs are sold worldwide, consumers should be aware of the risks associated with this technology. Consumer Union, a US-based nonprofit organization …
Google Chrome most resilient against attacks, researchers find
Researchers have analyzed Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Internet Explorer, and found Chrome to be the most resilient against attacks. “Modern web browsers such as …
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