The fragile security of the mobile ecosystem
Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have become indispensable in our daily lives. In fact, in Q4 2015, smartphones accounted for around 75 percent of all mobile …
Financial services IT pros overconfident in breach detection capabilities
A new Tripwire study evaluated the confidence of IT professionals regarding the efficacy of seven key security controls, which must be in place to quickly detect a cyber …
Vulnerability management trends in Asia Pacific
A new study conducted by Forrester Consulting evaluated perceived challenges, drivers and benefits of various vulnerability management strategies and investments based on …
SAP vulnerability exploited to compromise enterprises worldwide
A SAP vulnerability, patched over five years ago, is being leveraged to exploit SAP systems of many large-scale global enterprises, US-CERT warns. At least 36 organizations in …
CryptXXX 2.0 foils decryption tool, locks PCs
CryptXXX ransomware, first spotted in mid-April, has reached version 2.0, and a new level of nastiness. It’s also on its way to become one of the top ransomware families …
0day alert: Be ready to update Adobe Flash Player tomorrow
On Tuesday, Adobe has pushed out security updates for Cold Fusion and Adobe Acrobat and Reader, but has also announced an update for Flash Player that should be released on …
Microsoft releases eight critical updates
Microsoft has released its May patch updates and it was a rather large deployment with 16 total updates this month. The critical versus important updates were split down the …
Universities to help train IBM Watson for Cyber Security
IBM Security announced Watson for Cyber Security, a new cloud-based version of the company’s cognitive technology trained on the language of security as part of a …
GDPR challenges all organizations to mask EU data by default
Organizations need to re-architect operations and adopt a secure, data-first approach ahead of the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The …
Docker Security Scanning: Generate a security profile for Docker images
Docker announced Docker Security Scanning, an opt-in service for Docker Cloud private repo plans that provides a security assessment of the software included in container …
Attackers keep flinging assorted ImageMagick 0day exploits
It’s been a week since the existence of several flaws affecting popular image processing library ImageMagick have been made public. At the time, one of these, a remote …
How secure are the devices connecting to enterprise assets?
Most enterprises have accepted that its employees will use their own various, often mobile devices to access company assets, and have realized that the defined, more easily …
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