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Review: IS Decisions UserLock
According to a Rapid7 survey, 90% of organizations are worried about compromised credentials and around 60% say they cannot catch these types of attacks. French IT security …

IPVanish VPN unveils new app, security improvements
US-based IPVanish VPN, whose VPN network spans 40,000+ IPs on 500+ servers in 60+ countries, has recently pushed out a major new edition of its app. The new version (v3.0) has …

Use Chaos Monkey to push engineers to build resilient cloud services
Netflix’s engineering team is good at sharing the tools they create, and keeping them updated to serve different needs. Chaos Monkey is the latest offering that received …

GPG Sync: Internal GPG keys syncing tool for orgs
First Look Code has released GPG Sync, an open source tool for keeping a list of GPG keys used by members of an organization always updated, and always available to all of …

Released: 1Password Teams for Windows
AgileBits, the company behind popular password manager 1Password, has finally released 1Password Teams for Windows (6.0). 1Password Teams works just like the individual …

Quickly audit and adjust SSH server configurations with SSH-audit
SSH-audit is a standalone open source tool for auditing and fixing SSH server configurations. It has no dependencies and will run wherever Python is available. It supports …

Twitter, Facebook revoke access to social media surveillance software used by cops
Geofeedia, a US-based company that offers its social media aggregation platform “to a broad range of private and public sector clients”, also numbers among its …

Review: FourV Systems GreySpark
GreySpark is a solution for measuring and managing organizations’ IT security risk. GreySpark ingests information security metadata from a large range of existing …

Scan Ruby-based apps for security issues with Dawnscanner
Dawnscanner is an open source static analysis scanner designed to review the security of web applications written in Ruby. Dawnscanner’s genesis Its developer, Paolo …

October Patch Tuesday: Changes, urgent updates and what’s coming next
The leaves aren’t the only things changing this October. Patch Tuesday is here and with it comes some interesting updates from big names in the software space. This month, …

Four vulnerabilities found in Dell SonicWALL Email Security virtual appliance application
Digital Defense (DDI) disclosed the discovery of four security vulnerabilities found in the Dell SonicWALL Email Security virtual appliance application. The appliance is …

OverSight detects when Mac malware uses built-in camera, mic
Users who want to be warned each time their Mac’s camera and microphone are switched on – either by a legitimate process or, more importantly, by malware – …
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