How To Defend Railway Subsystems from Targeted Cyber-Attacks
By Michael Cheng, Director at TXOne Networks & C. Max. Farrell, Senior Technical Marketing Specialist at TXOne Networks Railways are a critical part of every nation’s vital system. Maintaining the…
Why Americans Joined Europe in Not Paying Security Ransoms
By Lee Pitman, Global Head of Response Services, BreachQuest As we close out 2021, the biggest trend in the security and insurance space has to be the heightened regulatory scrutiny…
FBI training document shows lawful access to multiple encrypted messaging apps
Which are the most secure encrypted messaging apps? An FBI document shows what data can be obtained from them. The Record shared an FBI training document that reveals the surveillance…
Why Email Archiving Builds Cyber Resilience
Plus 3 Email Archiving Solutions By Adnan A. Olia, Chief Operating Officer, Intradyn As innovations in technology continue to create new uses across an array of industries, cyber safety has…
Attackers deploy Linux backdoor on e-stores compromised with software skimmer
Researchers discovered threat actors installing a Linux backdoor on compromised e-commerce servers after deploying a credit card skimmer into e-stores. Security researchers from Sansec Threat Research Team discovered a Linux…
IT Security in Organizations After the Pandemic: What’s Next?
By Alan Kakareka, InfoSec consultant to businesses, Demyo inc. The year 2020 has so far represented, the biggest change in the way we live and interact with our environment. After…
Microsoft fixes 2 critical Exchange Server flaws reported by the NSA
Microsoft patch Tuesday security updates address four high and critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server that were reported by the NSA. Microsoft patch Tuesday security updates released today have addressed…
2021 Cybersecurity Outlook: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same
By Nir Gaist, Nyotron, Founder Cybersecurity has gone through many phases over the last few decades. Today, we hear about a new, more volatile-than-the-last attack every day that has the…
German Parliament Bundestag targeted again by Russia-linked hackers
Several members of the German Parliament (Bundestag) and other members of the state parliament were hit by a targeted attack allegedly launched by Russia-linked hackers. German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed…
Innovation, Automation and Securing A “Work from Anywhere” Environment In The Middle East
By Mazen A. Dohaji, Vice President, India, Middle East, Turkey & Africa (iMETA), LogRhythm. Throughout 2020, enterprises and public sector organizations across the Middle East have been managing disruption and…
Redefining Digital Risk: 3 Considerations for Your Cybersecurity Strategy in 2021
As we enter a new era of interconnected cybersecurity threats, companies and organizations would be wise to overhaul their entire view of the online landscape in order to be fully…
Thousands of VMware Center servers exposed online and potentially vulnerable to CVE-2021-21972 flaw
A Chinese security researcher published a PoC code for the CVE-2021-21972 vulnerability in VMware Center, thousands of vulnerable servers are exposed online. A Chinese security researcher published the Proof-of-concept exploit code for…
Cryptocurrency Ransomware Is on The Rise During COVID-19 – Here’s What Businesses of All Sizes Need to Know About Dealing with Attacks
By Marc Grens, Co-Founder & President at DigitalMint Crypto-related ransomware attacks are on the rise, and the pandemic has only hastened its propagation. For example, from 2018 to 2020, ransomware…
Emotet Attacks Surge in 2020, but Could Be Prevented
By Dan Piazza, Technical Product Manager, Stealthbits Technologies, Inc. The Emotet malware, originally detected as a banking trojan in 2014, has become one of those most prevalent malware threats in…
4 Reasons Why Cyber Security Is Important in Your Business
By Gabe Nelson, Content Specialist, Bonus.ly Cyber-attacks are incredibly common and anyone can fall victim to them. Cyber-attacks can cause electrical blackouts, failure of military equipment, and breaches of national…
Mapping Automation to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
By Chris Calvert, vice president, product strategy, and co-founder Respond Software As major enterprises race to digitize their IT and line of business infrastructures, cybersecurity has become an imperative, both…
Manual vs. Automatic Cybersecurity Testing: What’s the Difference?
By Tamir Shriki, Customer Operations Manager, XM Cyber In the context of cybersecurity, if you want to protect something, you need the ability to test its defenses. It’s the only…
Covid-19 Unveiled a New Security Gap
By Eddy Bobritsky, CEO & Co-Founder, Minerva Labs As COVID-19 spreads, more organizations are enforcing remote work from home, making employees home computers more vulnerable than ever to cyberattacks. The…
TLS/ SSL Decryption – One of the Main Pillars of Zero Trust Model
By Adil Baghir, Technology Consultant Lead, Middle East & Africa at A10 Networks In a world where everything and everyone is connected to the internet, in one way or another,…
How To Fight A Virus: Lessons From Cybersecurity
By Yotam Gutman, SentinelOne There has been a great deal of conversation around the similarities between the spread of the Covid-19 virus and that of computer viruses. And indeed, as…
Enabling Agility to Accelerate Incident Response
By John Attala, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Endace In the first article in this series, Endace VP of product management Cary Wright discussed the importance of end-to-end network visibility…
The Journey to Universal Privilege Management
By Karl Lankford, Director – Solutions Engineering, BeyondTrust Almost without exception, today’s threat actors leverage readily available automated tools — automation increases the speed and probability that the attacker can…
What You Need to Know About DDoS Weapons Today
By Ahmad Nassiri, Security Solutions Architect at A10 Networks A DDoS attack can bring down almost any website or online service. The premise is simple: using an infected botnet to…
Facebook’s $550 Million Settlement: A Warning to Companies Collecting Biometric Data
Facebook’s significant settlement could incite future class action lawsuits, further emphasizing the need for companies to comply with biometric privacy laws. By Billee Elliott McAuliffe, Member, Lewis Rice Thanks to…
KPMG Recommends Steps to Bolster Cybersecurity in the COVID-19 Era
By Ton Diemont, Head of Cybersecurity at KPMG in Saudi Arabia Hackers are jumping on the COVID-19 pandemic to exploit global uncertainty Riyadh, 07 April 2020: The outbreak of Covid-19…
The Gap in Security – Data Centric Security
By Eric Rickard, CEO, Sertainty Federal Systems What do the Coronavirus pandemic, 9/11 terrorist attacks, Boeing 737 MAX crashes, and the OPM data breach have in common? First, their root…
Predicting the Direction of The PAM Market In 2020
A Look at What is Next on the Horizon for Securing Organizations’ Privileged Accounts By James Legg, President, and CEO, Thycotic As each year passes, we analyze the successes and…
Drowning in A Sea of Threat Data? Consider A Curator
By Rodney Joffe, Senior Vice President, Senior Technologist and Fellow, Neustar In the wake of increasing cybersecurity threats and data breaches, a whole host of network monitoring and threat intelligence…
Time Is of The Essence
Combating False Alarms and Delayed Detection Is Key to Defeating Advanced Cyber Threats By Filip Truta, Information Security Analyst, Bitdefender Keeping your organization safe from cyber threats drains considerable resources…
Devops – Are You Risking Security for Agility?
By Morey Haber, CTO & CISO, BeyondTrust By merging software development and IT operations ― two traditionally mutually exclusive functions ― DevOps has fundamentally transformed how today’s organizations develop, operate…