security

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

The security and fraud prevention firm’s platform identifies bad behavior in real time by continuously assessing users’ digital interactions across websites, applications, and APIs. Darwinium says it takes a new approach to customer protection by combining internal cybersecurity tools with fraud-prevention tools, in a single view. The startup aims to prevent account compromise and online…

Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Proofpoint Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced the launch of its Intelligent Compliance Platform, offering enterprises modern regulatory compliance safeguards while simplifying corporate legal protection practices. The platform leverages Proofpoint’s proprietary machine learning engine to provide business leaders with AI-powered collection, classification, detection, prevention, search, eDiscovery, supervision, and next generation predictive analytics…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Twitter’s former head of security has blown the whistle on what he characterizes as sprawling cybersecurity weaknesses, including vulnerabilities that could lay the social media platform open to cyberattacks that could have major national-security implications. That’s the allegation from Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who sent a 200+-page disclosure to Congress detailing issues that he claims could…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the remote procedure calls (RPC) for the Windows Server service, which could allow an attacker to gain control over the domain controller (DC) in a specific network configuration and execute remote code. Malicious actors could also exploit the vulnerability to modify a server’s certificate mapping to perform server spoofing….

Network Security

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

As ransomware and BEC cyberattacks continue to increase, organizations are acquiring cyber insurance in record numbers to reduce cyber risk. According to Zurich, 83% of organizations have cyber insurance, the highest percentage in over a decade. However, there is some debate around the clarity of cyber insurance policy requirements and what security tools CISOs and…

Network Security, Software Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Panther Labs surveyed 400 active security practitioners, primarily, security analysts and security engineers, to reflect the “boots on the ground” perspective for security teams. The goal of the research was to better understand how effective their current tools and processes are, improvements they recommend making going forward, the challenges they face, and projections for the…