Software Security Archives - Page 19 of 29

IT teams failing to deliver a positive remote employee experience

Issued by: Help Net Security

Conducted during the coronavirus pandemic, 1E unveils the findings of an analysis of the remote employee experience and the digital workplace in 2020. Vanson Bourne and 1E surveyed employees across eight industries in the United States and found that enterprise IT teams are failing to deliver a positive remote employee experience. Data shows IT has…

Software Security

REMnux toolkit for malware analysis version 7 released

Issued by: Help Net Security

REMnux is a popular Linux-based toolkit for reverse-engineering malicious software which malware analysts have been relying on for more than 10 years to help them quickly investigate suspicious programs, websites, and document files. As the security industry matures, it becomes harder to keep track of all the tools that are available to assist with the…

Software Security

Investigation highlights the dangers of using counterfeit Cisco switches

Issued by: Help Net Security

An investigation, which concluded that counterfeit network switches were designed to bypass processes that authenticate system components, illustrates the security challenges posed by counterfeit hardware. Counterfeit Cisco Catalyst 2960-X series switches F-Secure Consulting’s Hardware Security team investigated two different counterfeit versions of Cisco Catalyst 2960-X series switches. The counterfeits were discovered by an IT company…

Software Security

July 2020 Patch Tuesday forecast: Will the CVE trend continue?

Issued by: Help Net Security

Microsoft has averaged roughly 90 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) fixes per month over the past five months. With everyone working from home and apparently focused on bug fixes, I expect this large CVE fixing trend to continue. Despite these record CVE numbers, the actual number of updates have been down; we haven’t seen Exchange…

Software Security

Elasticsearch security: Understand your options and apply best practices

Issued by: Help Net Security

The ever-escalating popularity of Elasticsearch – the distributed open source search and log analytics engine that has become a staple in enterprise application developers’ tool belts – is well-warranted. Elasticsearch security lapses, however, have been a headline-grabbing thorn in the side of the technology. The distributed document store too often represents a security blind spot…

Software Security

Microsoft releases Defender ATP for Android and Linux

Issued by: Help Net Security

Microsoft has added support for Linux and Android to Microsoft Defender ATP, its unified enterprise endpoint security platform. Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection is designed to help enterprises prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to advanced cyber threats on company endpoints from one central point. Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux Microsoft Defender ATP initially offered protection…

Software Security

Cequence API Sentinel: Discovering and analyzing all org’s APIs to detect and mitigate security risks

Issued by: Help Net Security

Cequence Security announced the general availability of Cequence API Sentinel, a runtime API security solution that delivers continuous run-time API visibility, shadow API discovery, risk analysis, and conformance assessment. With the addition of API Sentinel, Cequence delivers the industry’s only multi-threat API security solution that unifies visibility, vulnerability protection, bot mitigation, and business logic abuse…

Software Security, Vulnerabilities

What is a buffer overflow? And how hackers exploit these vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO

Buffer overflow definition A buffer overflow or overrun is a memory safety issue where a program does not properly check the boundaries of an allocated fixed-length memory buffer and writes more data than it can hold. This causes data to overflow to adjacent memory space, overwriting the information there, which often leads to crashes and…

Network Security, Software Security

Facial recognition hardware to reach over 800 million devices by 2024

Issued by: Help Net Security

A new report from Juniper Research found that facial recognition hardware, such as Face ID on recent iPhones, will be the fastest growing form of smartphone biometric hardware. This means it will reach over 800 million in 2024, compared to an estimated 96 million in 2019. The new research, Mobile Payment Authentication: Biometrics, Regulation &…

Software Security

Best antivirus software: 14 top tools

Issued by: CSO

The AV-TEST Institute recently tested the most popular Windows 10 client antivirus products on three primary criteria: protection, performance, and usability. Only six of the 18 products tested earned a perfect rating of 6 for each of those criteria: Bitdefender Endpoint Security 6.6, Kaspersky Lab Endpoint Security 11, Kaspersky Small Office Security 6, Microsoft Windows…