The ever-accelerating flood of software vulnerabilities and innovative attack techniques leaves increasingly few organizations capable of defending themselves and safeguarding sensitive data in their care. Information-sharing is a critical tool for network defenders because it allows them to avoid the missteps of their peers within the infosecurity community and to deploy proven defensive measures. Proactive information-sharing about attacks and defensive ...

This may outright stun a few security professionals, but it is (yes, affirmative) possible for migrations to be relatively fast, totally secure and overall mostly painless. Not what you’ve experienced? Also not surprising. Migration projects tend to drag on – and paradoxically, they become the cause of security problems they were only initiated to fix up. This happens for any ...

Dimension Data has extended the company’s protection from ransomware, phishing attacks, bot networks, and all types of malicious software, with Cisco Umbrella, a Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) in the cloud.  The decision to incorporate Cisco Umbrella follows the company’s firsthand experience protecting its own 28,000 employees and addresses its clients’ requirement to support an increasingly mobile workforce. Cisco Umbrella is a ...

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has announced three new Smart-1 security management appliances. This follows on the heels of the company’s announcement of Check Point Infinity Total Protection, a new security model to prevent ‘Gen V’ threats and attacks. The new appliances enable centralized, unified policy management, and advanced log and threat analysis for real-time, enterprise-wide security monitoring and control, for Gen V (5th ...

Microsegmentation is a way to create secure zones in data centers and cloud deployments that allow you to isolate workloads and protect them individually. Microsegmentation is a method of creating secure zones in data centers and cloud deployments that allows companies to isolate workloads from one another and secure them individually. It’s aimed at making network security more granular. Microsegmentation ...

  Today we log into online accounts all the time – from transferring money between bank accounts, to simply ordering some shopping, checking the weather, or booking a taxi on a night out. But what if suddenly you can’t log into the account you need, when you need it? What if you get the dreaded ‘password error’ message? Do you ...

We all know that the last year has been just the bees-knees for ransomware operators; it’s just the tops, really, between the world-dominating success of WannaCry and NotPetya, the pioneering of ransomware-as-a-service offerings and the development of truly horrific strains of the stuff, like BrickerBot (tagline: The permanent ransomware!). So bad actors already have much to celebrate as they count the ...

Cyber-criminals are exploiting traditional measures of trust to gain a foothold on users systems by compromising trusted sites via background initiated requests, using phishing sites, and typo-squatting. While many companies have used categories such as  Business and Economy, Shopping, News and Media, and Malware, to help set security policy researchers are warning it’s no longer advisable to consider any category ...

A new widespread ransomware attack is spreading like wildfire around Europe and has already affected over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and Germany, in the past few hours. Dubbed “Bad Rabbit,” is reportedly a new Petya-like targeted ransomware attack against corporate networks, demanding 0.05 bitcoin (~ $285) as ransom from victims to unlock their systems. According to ...

Just a year after Mirai—biggest IoT-based malware that caused vast Internet outages by launching massive DDoS attacks—completed its first anniversary, security researchers are now warning of a brand new rapidly growing IoT botnet. Dubbed ‘IoT_reaper,’ first spotted in September by researchers at firm Qihoo 360, the new malware no longer depends on cracking weak passwords; instead, it exploits vulnerabilities in various IoT devices and enslaves ...