Security and compliance gaps of ineffective employee onboarding and offboarding
There are significant gaps in the compliant management of employee resources throughout the employment lifecycle. Just 15% of employees have all the resources they require to …
PDFex attacks can exfiltrate content from encrypted PDF documents
Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and Münster University of Applied Sciences have devised new attacks allowing them (and potential attackers) to recover the plaintext …
Google adds Password Checkup feature to Google Accounts, Chrome
The popularity of Google’s Password Checkup Chrome extension has spurred the company to build the technology into Google Account’s Password Manager and the Chrome …
Urgent11 flaws affect more medical, industrial devices than previously thought
When, in late July, Armis researchers revealed the existence of the so-called Urgent11 vulnerabilities in Wind River’s VxWorks real-time operating system, they noted …
The 5 biggest examples of executive threats and how to prevent them
Many executives focus their security efforts and budgets solely on physical threats, but attacks targeting an executive’s digital presence can be just as dangerous. …
49% of infosec pros are awake at night worrying about their organization’s cybersecurity
Six in every ten businesses have experienced a breach in either in the last three years. At least a third of infosec professionals (36%) whose employers had not recently been …
Massive uptick in eCrime campaigns, retail among top targeted industries
There has been a massive uptick in eCrime cyber activity, a CrowdStrike report reveals. As Gartner states in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platform, “The …
Cyber risks are the top concern among businesses of all sizes
Cyber risks are the top concern among businesses of all sizes for the first time since the Travelers Companies’ survey began in 2014. Of the 1,200 business leaders who …
What’s next for 5G?
The future of 5G lies in the enterprise, states ABI Research. Use cases across different vertical markets, such as industrial automation, cloud gaming, private Long-Term …
Sophos Managed Threat Response: An evolved approach to proactive security protection
In its 2019 market guide for managed detection and response (MDR) services, Gartner forecasted that by 2024, 25% of organizations will be using MDR services, up from less than …
Danish company Demant expects to suffer huge losses due to cyber attack
Danish hearing health care company Demant has estimated it will lose between $80 and $95 million due to a recent “cyber-crime” attack. Though the company has yet …
Vulnerability in Cisco Webex and Zoom may expose online meetings to snooping
Cequence Security’s CQ Prime Threat Research Team discovered of a vulnerability in Cisco Webex and Zoom video conferencing platforms that potentially allows an attacker to …