How Google protects the Android kernel, and future plans
On Wednesday, Jeff Vander Stoep of Google’s Android Security team took to the official Android Developers blog and shared some information about the defenses they have …
Cybersecurity talent crisis continues, technical skills in high demand
Intel Security, in partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), has released a global report outlining the talent shortage crisis impacting the …
Infection Monkey: Test a network from an attacker’s point of view
Infection Monkey, a tool designed to test the resiliency of modern data centers against cyber attacks, was developed as an open source tool by GuardiCore’s research …
Global network shares phishing attack intelligence in real-time
IRONSCALES, a multi-layered phishing mitigation solution that combines human intelligence with machine learning, today announced the launch of Federation, a product that will …
Obama defines how the US government will respond to cyber incidents
US president Barack Obama approved on Tuesday the Presidential Policy Directive on United States Cyber Incident Coordination (PPD-41). What’s the PPD-41 all about? …
Osram’s intelligent home lighting system is riddled with flaws
“Intelligent” home lighting system Osram Lightify sports a number of security vulnerabilities, some of which could lead to compromise of the product and the …
LastPass zero-day can lead to account compromise
A zero-day flaw in the popular password manager LastPass can be triggered by users visiting a malicious site, allowing attackers to compromise the users’s account and …
Sophisticated ransomware: New tactics to maximize profit
Organizations are unprepared for future strains of more sophisticated ransomware, according to the Cisco 2016 Midyear Cybersecurity Report. Fragile infrastructure, poor …
88% of all ransomware is detected in the healthcare industry
Solutionary found that companies in the healthcare industry had the most ransomware present, accounting for 88 percent of all ransomware detections in Q2. In addition, …
How cybersecurity mismanagement can destroy value
Cyber security remains a critical business challenge and a growing concern with a potentially devastating impact on company brands and bottom lines. Despite these damaging …
DDoS attacks increase 83%, Russia top victim
DDoS attacks increased 83 percent to more than 182,900 attacks in the second quarter of the year, according to Nexusguard. The newest report shows that Russia has become the …
Low-cost wireless keyboards open to keystroke sniffing and injection attacks
Bastille Networks researcher Marc Newlin has discovered a set of security vulnerabilities in low-cost wireless keyboards that could be exploited to collect all passwords, …
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