enterprise
Phorpiex bots target remote access servers to deliver ransomware
Threat actors are brute-forcing their way into enterprise endpoints running server-side remote access applications and attempting to spread the GandCrab ransomware onto other …
Chronicle announces VirusTotal Enterprise with greater search and analysis capabilities
Chronicle, the cybersecurity subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has announced VirusTotal Enterprise, which is aimed at helping enterprises protect their own …
Apple DEP vulnerability lets attackers access orgs’ resources, info
An authentication weakness in Apple’s Device Enrollment Program (DEP) may allow attackers to enroll any device into an organization’s Mobile Device Management …
The state of network security in organizations with 1000+ employees
Security team size at the largest organizations does not scale with the number of overall employees, but they are more likely to include staff with specialized roles, say the …
Data breaches make companies underperform the market in the long run
While the share prices of companies that experienced a sizeable/huge data breach suffer just a temporary hit, in the long term breached companies underperformed the market, an …
Preventing exfiltration of sensitive docs by flooding systems with hard-to-detect fakes
A group of researchers from Queen’s University (Canada) have proposed a new approach for keeping important documents safe: creating so many believable fakes that …
Critical Apache Struts flaw opens enterprises to compromise, patch ASAP!
A critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-11776) in Apache Struts, the popular open source framework for developing Java-based web apps, could allow remote …
Retail and finance top the list of vulnerable industries, increasingly targeted with credential threat campaigns
The finance, professional, and information sectors had the highest volume and most variety of malicious activity in Q2 2018, says Rapid7, and the manufacturing sector is …
Criminals can compromise company networks by sending malicious faxes
Check Point has revealed details about the two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-5924, CVE-2018-5925) it discovered in the communication protocols used …
Which SD-WAN product should enterprises choose?
Adoption of Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) has reached an inflection point and nearly every distributed business is deploying, evaluating, or planning to …
There’s a global divide in how organizations assess cyber risk
Nearly 48 percent of organizations globally have embraced strategic vulnerability assessment – defined as mature or moderately mature programs that include targeted and …
Nearly 15% of US security budgets go to remediating active compromises
Malwarebytes and Osterman Research have polled 900 senior IT decision-makers and IT security professionals in Australia, Germany, the US, UK, and Singapore about the impact of …