Stepping Up Cybersecurity This Summer
It’s summertime, and everyone’s on vacation. What could possibly go wrong? For the security team, the answer is “plenty.” Summer brings a set of new challenges to security organizations including employees taking more time off, often with their corporate laptops. Our own security personnel are taking vacation time, too, which makes staffing the security operations…
Kaspersky Lab denies leaked emails prove it has been working with Russia’s FSB
While the Trump administration is deciding whether to remove Kaspersky Lab from the General Services Administration’s list of vendors whose products government agencies are allowed to use, Bloomberg Businessweek declared Kaspersky Lab “has been working with Russian intelligence.” The news report alleges that the relationship between Kaspersky Lab and the Kremlin is closer than the cybersecurity firm…
Addressing major application vulnerabilities with the Qualys Cloud Platform
In this podcast, Vikas Phonsa, Director of Product Management, Web Application Firewall, Qualys, talks about the application security space in general, the challenges of securing web applications and how the comprehensive applications security portfolio offered by Qualys can help the security teams by simplifying application security.
Businesses overconfident about keeping attackers at bay
Despite the increasing number of data breaches and nearly 1.4 billion data records being lost or stolen in 2016, the vast majority of IT professionals still believe perimeter security is effective at keeping unauthorized users out of their networks. However, companies are under investing in technology that adequately protects their business, according to Gemalto.
Smart home device calls cops during domestic dispute
Amazon is kicking off its third annual Prime Day by slashing the cost of an Amazon Echo, cutting 50 percent off the price tag, and selling the Echo for only $89.99. Google is competing by cutting $64 from the price tag for a Google Home and Chromecast bundle, selling the two for $99.99. So, if you’ve been wanting to…
PoS Malware Hits Avanti Payment Kiosks
Micro markets solutions provider Avanti Markets has informed customers that their personal, payment card and biometric data may have been stolen by cybercriminals who managed to infect some of its kiosks with malware. According to the company, which serves 1.6 million customers across 46 U.S. states, the malware was designed to harvest information such as…
Man stole bitcoin by phishing individuals on the dark web
Michael Richo, a 35-year-old from Connecticut, had the brilliant idea of stealing bitcoin from people involved in illegal deals through dark web marketplaces. Perhaps he thought that he would be safe from law enforcement if he stuck to robbing potential criminals but, as it turns out, he was wrong. Richo’s modus operandi was as follows:…
Google Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Android
Google on Wednesday announced that a total of 138 vulnerabilities were addressed in the Android platform with the release of this month’s set of security patches. The July 2017 Android Security Bulletin was split in two partial security patch level strings: the 2017-07-01 security patch level that addresses issues in the platform itself, and the 2017-07-05 security patch…
Russia Jails Head of Notorious Hacker Group
A Moscow court on Thursday jailed the leader of a notorious hacking group for two years for breaking into the accounts of high-ranking Russian officials. Vladimir Anikeyev headed the Shaltai Boltai collective — Russian for “Humpty Dumpty” — believed to be behind high-profile hacks, including into the Twitter account of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Anikeyev…
Five crucial ways to help keep a system safe from harm
We’re living in an incredible age of technology, invention and innovation. It’s hard to imagine that just a short time ago we couldn’t order groceries for delivery from our phones, or ask into the air any question, to be answered immediately by a robot sitting on a countertop. “Okay, Google — what do I have…