Webinar: Automate compliance audits without the staff
With so many consequential data breaches in the past decade, data security and privacy are top of mind issues for security leaders and corporate boards. Numerous government …
Week in review: Man in the Cloud attacks, Google GDPR fine, business resilience
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Bug in widespread Wi-Fi chipset firmware can lead to zero-click code execution A …
Vulnerable cloud infrastructure experiencing increasing attacks
Attackers are increasingly targeting vulnerable cloud infrastructure to exploit it for covert cryptojacking or to deliver ransomware, Securonix researchers warn. Some attacks …
Researcher warns of privilege escalation flaw in Check Point ZoneAlarm
Illumant researcher Chris Anastasio has discovered a serious vulnerability in Check Point’s security software. It affects ZoneAlarm Free Firewall and ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus …
GDPR-ready organizations see lowest incidence of data breaches
Organizations worldwide that invested in maturing their data privacy practices are now realizing tangible business benefits from these investments, according to Cisco’s …
New infosec products of the week: January 25, 2019
Threat Stack announces new API for streamlined DevOps and security workflows The new API will allow for the suppression and dismissal of alerts from existing tools, …
83% of global respondents experienced phishing attacks in 2018
Proofpoint analyzed data from tens of millions of simulated phishing attacks sent over a one-year period, along with nearly 15,000 cybersecurity professional survey responses, …
The most effective security strategies to guard sensitive information
Today’s enterprise IT infrastructures are not largely hosted in the public cloud, nor are they SaaS-based, with security being the single largest barrier when it comes to …
Enterprises turn to MSPs to mitigate huge skills gap concerns
A huge skills gap coupled with security worries is driving IT decision makers to engage Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to handle their IT needs, according to NTT Com. Of the …
PHP PEAR supply chain attack: Backdoor added to installer
Some additional details have emerged about the recent security breach involving the PHP PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) webserver, but much is still unknown. …
Cisco fixes security holes in SD-WAN, Webex, Small Business routers
Cisco has fixed a heap of security holes in a variety of its products, including a critical one affecting its SD-WAN Solution. Cisco SD-WAN vulnerabilities The most critical …
Organizations waste money storing useless IT hardware
A survey of 600 data center experts from APAC, Europe and North America reveals that two in five organizations that store their data in-house spend more than $100,000 storing …