A regularly updated directory of press releases related to cyber security.

 KnowBe4 Releases Weak Password Test Tool

On the heels of Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, IT security company KnowBe4 released Weak Password Test (WPT), a free tool for organizations that use Active Directory. As the fastest growing security awareness training and simulated phishing company, KnowBe4 found this was an area where companies needed help. The Verizon report, which KnowBe4 participated…

 Author and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Fred Kaplan to Keynote the 10th Annual DFIR Summit in Austin, Texas

Bethesda, MD., May 2, 2017 – SANS Institute, the global leader in information security training, today announced Fred Kaplan, the author of Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, will deliver the keynote address at the 10th annual SANS Digital Forensic and Incident Response (DFIR) Summit and Training 2017 taking place June 22 –…

 Cisco Develops an Analytics Platform for Mexico Conectado

MAY 02, 2017 Cisco Mexico developed Country Digitization Analytics Platform (CDAP), a platform that will help Mexico Conectado – a program from the Mexican Secretariat of Communications and Transportation – to get analytics about the usage of the initiative, and not only raw information regarding the usage of the network Mexico Conectado is a program…

 Kaspersky Lab spam report shows a 5,000-fold decrease in the world’s largest spam botnet mailings

Woburn, MA – May 2, 2017 – According to Kaspersky Lab “Spam and phishing in Q1 2017” report, the world’s largest spam botnet, Necurs, demonstrated a drastic decline in its fraudulent mailshot traffic, from over 35 million fraudulent mailshots in December 2016 to almost 7,000 in March2017. In addition, the company detected cybercriminals attempting to…

 Kaspersky Lab North America Wins Building Impact Award for Fifth Consecutive Year

Woburn, MA – April 26, 2017 – Kaspersky Lab North America announced today that it has been awarded Building Impact’s 2016 Gold Impact Award for the fifth consecutive year. The accolade recognizes the company’s continued commitment to social responsibility through volunteerism and philanthropy within local communities. In 2016, Kaspersky Lab contributed to Building Impact’s total…

 Alarming Increase in Targeted Attacks Aimed at Politically Motivated Sabotage and Subversion

Mountain View, Calif. – April 26, 2017 – Cyber criminals revealed new levels of ambition in 2016 – a year marked by extraordinary attacks, including multi-million dollar virtual bank heists and overt attempts to disrupt the U.S. electoral process by state-sponsored groups, according to Symantec’s (Nasdaq: SYMC) Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), Volume 22, released…

 Qualys Helps Financial Institutions Comply with Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Cyber Security Guidelines

MUMBAI, India, April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Qualys Security Conference —  Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, today announced it now supports the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Cyber Security Guidelines to help financial institutions in India address and report on a range of technical and procedural requirements…

 Cisco Jasper Introduces Automated Mobility Management Platform

APRIL 25, 2017 San Jose, CA – When an enterprise has hundreds or thousands of employees with business mobile devices like smartphones or tablets, managing and monitoring the connectivity, data usage, and general operation of those mobile devices can be a challenge that leads to high enterprise mobility costs. Cisco today announced the availability of…

 Proven Detection Empowered with Scalability: Kaspersky Lab Releases Major Update to its Anti Targeted Attack Platform

Woburn, MA – April 25, 2017 – Kaspersky Lab today announced a new version of the Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack (KATA) platform, the company’s enterprise solution for detecting advanced threats and targeted attacks. The KATA platform combines network and endpoint sensors, sandbox technology and intelligent analysis to correlate different indicators of compromise. The new solution…