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The Novidade exploit kit is targeting home and small office routers in an attempt to compromise the mobile devices or desktop computers connected to the routers. [Read More]
Several critical infrastructure organizations in Russia have been targeted by hackers believed to be profit-driven cybercriminals rather than state-sponsored cyberspies. [Read More]
Italian oil and gas services company Saipem hit by a cyberattack. The firm is working on restoring affected systems while trying to determine who was behind the attack. [Read More]
Organizations are getting better at detecting breaches on their own, but it still takes them a long time to do it, according to a new report from CrowdStrike. [Read More]
Google will close the consumer version of its online social network sooner than originally planned due to the discovery of a new software bug. [Read More]
A UK teen responsible for many bomb hoaxes and DDoS attacks has been sentenced to 3 years in prison. [Read More]
Remotely exploitable DoS vulnerability found in some of Rockwell Automation’s MicroLogix controllers and ControlLogix communications modules. [Read More]
A new class action lawsuit filed against Marriott following the massive data breach alleges that the hotel giant still exposes customer information. [Read More]
Some clues left behind by the hackers that breached Marriott suggest that they were conducting cyber espionage on behalf of the Chinese government, Reuters reports. [Read More]
Google this week announced the release of a new set of security patches for the Android operating system, to address over 50 vulnerabilities in the platform. [Read More]
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Even organizations with the most robust defense solutions and advanced automated technologies cannot effectively combat threats such as BEC without the adequate support and nuanced expertise of humans.
To mitigate the risk of attacks, IT teams should disable unused tools and components, while deploying endpoint protection that doesn’t rely solely on file scanning or whitelisting.
DMARC is an email authentication standard designed to eliminate phishing and other types of attack that use spoofing to misrepresent an email sender identity.
By understanding and easing the cultural shift this entails, you can save time and money and sleep better at night with security occupying a seat at the DevOps table.
As DevOps and agile development methodologies take greater root in the enterprise, the traditional tools and approaches for eliminating vulnerabilities in code will no longer be able to keep pace.
When planning a testing strategy for an application, it is important to evaluate the applicability and likely effectiveness of the various testing approach options.
Several tech vendors have been added to the list of vendors vulnerable to a variation on the Bleichenbacher attack called the ROBOT attack.
Laws to support swift and automatic updates for all devices, and consequence to organizations that fail to ensure their IoT devices are secure, would be a big step forward for IoT security.
With a software composition analysis (SCA) tool in place, security teams can quickly scan an information repository and know where vulnerable software is being used.
The "Reaper" IoT botnet is holding itself up as a blinky light in front of our faces, reminding the InfoSec community that we really need to get ahead of IoT madness.
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