Middle East oil and gas companies are unprepared to address OT cyber risk
Cyber security breaches in the Middle East are widespread and frequently undetected, with 30 percent of the region’s attacks targeting operational technology (OT), finds a new …
Nmap 7.70 released: Better service and OS detection, 9 new NSE scripts, and more!
Nmap is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network …
AI deployments to drive investments in storage, networking, and cloud infrastructure
The race for making perfect hardware to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) applications is heating up and many companies are jumping in with their products and solutions. …
Privilege escalation on Unix machines via plugins for text editors
Several of the most popular extensible text editors for Unix environments could be misused by attackers to escalate privileges on targeted systems, SafeBreach researchers have …
RSA Conference Innovation Sandbox Contest 2018 finalists announced
RSA Conference announced the 10 finalists for its annual RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest. The competition offers a leading platform for entrepreneurial cyber security …
A look inside the big business of cybercrime
For three months, Armor’s Threat Resistance Unit (TRU) research team compiled and analyzed data from the black market to shed light on the type of activity threat actors are …
Cambridge Analytica and Facebook’s privacy storm: Latest developments
A day before the most recent exposé on Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL)/Cambridge Analytica’s exploitation of user data syphoned out of Facebook to fuel …
Gartner unveils IT cost-optimization priority for CIOs
IT cost optimization in most organizations is now largely focused on business optimization rather than cost cutting, according to a recent survey by Gartner. Survey …
New Intel processors to have hardware-based protections against Meltdown, Spectre 2
Intel has officially pushed out microcode updates with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations for all of the processors it launched in the past five years. In addition to this, the …
AI services market to reach $188 billion worldwide by 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) has worked its way into a variety of industries, from the obvious (autonomous vehicles) to the hidden (anti-money laundering due diligence). But …
Have you evaluated the cost of a cloud outage?
New findings from a study by Veritas Technologies, indicate that 60 percent of respondents have not fully evaluated the cost of a cloud outage to their business and are …
Week in review: Big data and insurance, wireless standards hackers will target after Wi-Fi
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Malicious activity surges coincide with geopolitical events 2017 was a year of …