Prioritizing vulnerabilities to close gaps where it matters
Core Security announced the latest version of the Core Attack Intelligence Platform, which consolidates, prioritizes and validates the overwhelming quantity of vulnerabilities …
Google: Websites using HTTPS will get better search rankings
Websites that don’t use HTTPS will be ranked lower in Google Search results, the web giant has announced on Wednesday. “At Google I/O a few months ago, we called …
US DHS contractor gets hacked
USIS, the largest commercial provider of background investigations to the US federal government, has announced that it has suffered a breach that might have resulted in the …
Symantec issues update fixing Endpoint Protection zero-day
Symantec has issued updates for its Endpoint Protection solution that fix the zero-day escalation of privilege vulnerability recently discovered by Offensive Security …
Photo gallery: Black Hat USA 2014 Business Hall
The Black Hat conference is underway at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, and the “business” part of the conference is bustling. Featured vendors and people: Qualys, …
SWSIS program awards cybersecurity scholarships to women
Responding to a shortage of cybersecurity professionals across the United States and a dearth of women in the field, Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA) and the …
Deploying and monitoring honeypots made easy
At the Black Hat conference, LogRhythm released a new analytics suite that monitors honeypots to track would-be attackers, enabling customers to analyze nefarious tactics and …
US govt is after another secret document leaker
It seems that there is a leaker following in the footsteps of Edward Snowden, and US government officials are trying to discover his or her identity, as they confirmed for the …
92% of brands fail email security test
The Online Trust Alliance (OTA), the non-profit with the mission to enhance online trust and empower users, announced the results of its 2014 Email Integrity Audit report, …
State of security: malicious sites, CryptoLocker copycats, email scams
AppRiver released its mid-year Global Security Report, a detailed analysis of web and email-borne threats and malware trends tracked between January and June 2014. During the …
Cyber gang steals 1.2 billion Web credentials
A Russia-based cyber criminal group has managed to accumulate 1.2 billion unique online login credentials by compromising databases of over hundreds of thousands websites and …
Free service helps CryptoLocker victims get their files back
FireEye and Fox-IT announced DecryptCryptoLocker, a new service assisting victims of the CryptoLocker ransomware. Available immediately for no cost, the service can offer help …
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