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

 DDoS Attacks via WordPress Now Come with Encryption, Kaspersky Lab Reports

Woburn, MA – December 13, 2016 – According to the DDOS intelligence report for Q3 2016, Kaspersky Lab experts have noted an emerging trend – a growth in the number of attacks using encryption. Such attacks are highly effective due to the difficulty in identifying them amongst the overall flow of clean requests. Recently, the…

 China Mobile enters the connected car market with Gemalto’s remote subscription management solution

Amsterdam, December 13, 2016 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, is supplying its LinqUS On-Demand Connectivity (ODC) Subscription Management solution and the GSMA compliant Embedded SIMs (eSIMs) to China Mobile. The operator is the world’s largest telecom carrier with over 845 Million subscribers[1], and the solution will enable secure connectivity…

 KnowBe4 and Barracuda Team Up to Educate and Protect Users Against Phishing Attacks

Dcember 13, 2016 – KnowBe4, the most popular security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, and Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA), a leading provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions, today announced a joint effort to enhance email security, improve user awareness, and help protect employees from targeted phishing attacks. As part of the effort,…

 Employee reporting of suspicious emails substantially outweighs susceptibility to attacks

 LEESBURG, VA – December 13th, 2016: PhishMe Inc., the leading provider of human phishing defense solutions, today released its 2016 Enterprise Phishing Susceptibility and Resiliency Report, which illustrates employee susceptibility to phishing emails and resilience improvements when engaged in security reporting. With phishing still the most common cyber-attack vector leading to data breach, the report…

 Patient Identification can dramatically improve patient care and the hospital’s bottom line, according to new report

Lexington, MA – December 13, 2016 — Imprivata®, the healthcare IT security company, today released results of a new study which reveals that, as the healthcare industry has transitioned to digital health records, patient misidentification has become rampant and carries significant consequences that negatively impact patient care and the hospital’s financial performance. The survey of…

 Online Clothing Retailer N Brown Chooses Website Protection from Imperva

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Dec. 13, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Imperva, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMPV), committed to protecting business-critical data and applications in the cloud and on-premises, today announced that fashion retailer N Brown Group plc is using the Imperva Incapsula service to protect its online business. N Brown deployed the Incapsula service across all its customer-facing web…

 CounterTack Joins IBM Security App Exchange Community

Waltham, Mass. (December 12, 2016) – CounterTack, a leading provider of behaviorally-based endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology for the enterprise, today launched its CounterTack Sentinel App for QRadar, which leverages and integrates with IBM QRadar Security Intelligence to achieve better endpoint visibility. The CounterTack Sentinel App for QRadar delivers EDR capabilities to security teams helping correlate robust…

 Symantec Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Zscaler, Inc.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–December 12, 2016–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC) today announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Zscaler, Inc. in the U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Delaware. The lawsuit asserts that Zscaler products violate seven of Symantec’s patents across a variety of network security technologies including web security, data loss…

 FireEye is First Security Company to Detect All Threats Faced in ICSA Labs Advanced Threat Defense Testing

MILPITAS, CA – December 12, 2016 – FireEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE), the intelligence-led security company, today announced that FireEye Network Security (NX) achieved Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) certification in the latest round of independent testing from ICSA Labs, a leading third-party testing and certification body and an independent division of Verizon. FireEye NX Series detected…