Reinforcing cybersecurity: The network’s role to prevent, detect, and respond to attacks
It’s always DNS. That’s what the famous internet meme popular among sysadmins says anyway. It’s funny because while clearly, every network issue doesn’t resolve to some funky …
MITRE ATT&CK project leader on why the framework remains vital for cybersecurity pros
MITRE ATT&CK, a common language for cybersecurity professionals to communicate with each other and better understand real-world adversary behaviors, celebrates its 10th …
Rising OT/ICS cybersecurity incidents reveal alarming trend
60% of cyberattacks against the industrial sector are led by state-affiliated actors and often unintentionally enabled by internal personnel (about 33% of the time), according …
Cybersecurity risks dampen corporate enthusiasm for tech investments
64% of IT leaders believe that cybersecurity concerns are negatively impacting their organization’s willingness to invest in innovative tech, according to a report by HPE …
Best practices for implementing a proper backup strategy
Implementing a robust backup strategy for safeguarding crucial business data is more essential than ever. Without such a plan, organizations risk paying ransoms and incurring …
The power of passive OS fingerprinting for accurate IoT device identification
The number of IoT devices in enterprise networks and across the internet is projected to reach 29 billion by the year 2030. This exponential growth has inadvertently increased …
What makes a good ASM solution stand out
In this Help Net Security interview, Patrice Auffret, CTO at Onyphe, explains how the traditional perimeter-based security view is becoming obsolete. He suggests that …
IEEE 802.11az provides security enhancements, solves longstanding problems
In this Help Net Security interview, Jonathan Segev, IEEE 802.11 Task Group (TG) Chair of next-generation positioning (TGaz) at IEEE, discusses IEEE 802.11az. The new standard …
Businesses count the cost of network downtime
Fewer than one in ten CIOs can claim that they have avoided a network outage, according to Opengear. This finding is among new research by Opengear of both CIOs and network …
Cisco fixes critical flaws in Small Business Series Switches
Nine vulnerabilities – 4 of them critical – have been found in a variety of Cisco Small Business Series Switches. PoC exploit code is available (but not public), …
Advantech’s industrial serial device servers open to attack
Three vulnerabilities in Advantech’s EKI series of serial device servers could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands on the OS level. Source: CyberDanube The …
Business-grade routers compromised in low-key attack campaign
An unknown threat actor has discreetly compromised business-grade DrayTek routers in Europe, Latin and North America, equipping them with a remote access trojan (dubbed …