How to maintain or improve employee productivity in virtual or hybrid workplaces
Productivity can be maintained surprisingly well in a virtual or hybrid workplaces, according to BCG. Employees are open to hybrid workplaces The survey, conducted in the US, …
August 2020 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes two vulnerabilities under attack
On this August 2020 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft has plugged 120 flaws, two of which are being exploited in attacks in the wild Adobe has delivered security updates for Adobe …
Exploits for vBulletin zero-day released, attacks are ongoing
The fix for CVE-2019-16759, a remote code execution vulnerability in vBulletin that was patched in September 2019, is incomplete, security researcher Amir Etemadieh has …
Businesses prioritize security and collaboration tools to manage sustained remote work environments
77 percent of IT professionals believe they were prepared to manage the rapid shift to remote work during the COVID-19 outbreak, according to TeamViewer. Among those surveyed, …
Securing human resources from cyber attack
As COVID-19 forced organizations to re-imagine how the workplace operates just to maintain basic operations, HR departments and their processes became key players in the game …
10-point plan for securing employee health data collected for COVID-19 prevention
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the business landscape and, over the past few months, employers have found themselves in uncharted waters on more than one …
Facebook open-sources a static analyzer for Python code
Need a tool to check your Python-based applications for security issues? Facebook has open-sourced Pysa (Python Static Analyzer), a tool that looks at how data flows through …
Critical ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus RCE flaw patched
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-11552) in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, an Active Directory password-reset solution, could allow attackers to remotely execute commands …
The precision of security undermined by a failure to correlate
If Paul Newman’s Cool Hand Luke character were to address the security industry, his opening line would likely be: “What we have here is a failure to correlate.” Today, one of …
Internal investigations are changing in the age of COVID-19
Internal investigations in corporations are typically conducted by the human resources (HR) department, internal compliance teams, and/or the IT department. Some cases may …
Why the rapid transition to cloud demands that DevOps shift left
To accommodate remote work policies amid COVID-19, companies have increasingly adopted the public cloud to support off-site business continuity. A MarketsandMarkets analysis …
6,600 organizations bombarded with 100,000+ BEC attacks
Cybercriminals are increasingly registering accounts with legitimate services, such as Gmail and AOL, to use them in impersonation and BEC attacks, according to Barracuda …