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Richard Ford: A physicist’s strange journey to become an infosec scientist
Many of today’s information security professionals started their path towards a career in the industry by becoming frustrated gamers. Richard Ford, Chief Scientist at …
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Triggered via malicious files, flaws in Cisco WebEx players can lead to RCE
Cisco has plugged six security holes in Cisco WebEx Network Recording Player for Advanced Recording Format (ARF) and WebEx Recording Format (WRF) files that could be exploited …
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The evil of vanity metrics
With the fast-paced evolution of tools and connectedness in business operations, the amount of network and log data has exploded. However, organizations have largely failed to …
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Enterprise security incident response trends to watch in 2018
Resolve Systems shared the top trends to watch in 2018 relating to incident response and automation. The list of predictions are founded on the company’s insight into the …
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AWS allows customers to manage and protect IoT devices
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced six significant services and capabilities for connected devices at the edge. AWS IoT 1-Click, AWS IoT Device Management, AWS IoT Device …
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75% of insider breaches are accidental
Approximately 25% of insider threats are hostile with the remaining 75% due to accidental or negligent activity, according to NTT Security. This graph represents the top …
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Deloitte launches Threat Hunting-As-A-Service powered by Sqrrl
Deloitte CyberSOC EMEA Center, SL. closed a strategic agreement with Sqrrl to provide Managed Threat Hunting Services to clients in the EMEA region using Sqrrl’s threat …
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OpenEMR flaw leaves millions of medical records exposed to attackers
A vulnerability in the free, open source electronic medical record and medical practice management software OpenEMR can be exploited to steal patients’ medical records …
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Cut the FUD: Why Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt is harming the security industry
Although the acronym is close to a century old, FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) has come to be closely associated with the technology industry since the 1970s. FUD is a …
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Critical macOS High Sierra bug allows easy root access
If you’re using a Mac, and are running macOS High Sierra, drop everything that you’re doing and go and apply this update. Why? What’s happening? Turkish …
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Are your connected devices searchable on the Internet?
Despite being a hub for technology talent, Berliners are leaving themselves wide open to cyberattack through poor security practices that are exposing millions of cyber …
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Surge in exposed credentials puts companies at risk
The volume of credential exposures has increased to 16,583 from April to July 2017, compared to 5,275 last year’s analysis by Anomali. 77% of the FTSE 100 were exposed, with …
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