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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…

Malware & Threats

Threat highlight: Analysis of 5+ million unmanaged, IoT, and IoMT devices

Issued by: Help Net Security

A new study incorporates analysis of anonymized data from more than 5 million unmanaged, IoT, and IoMT devices in Ordr customer deployments across a variety of verticals including healthcare, life sciences, retail and manufacturing, between June 2019 and June 2020. Unmanaged devices Researchers identified real-world risks across a diverse set of connected devices, reaffirming the…

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…

Cloud Security

Attackers exploit Twilio’s misconfigured cloud storage, inject malicious code into SDK

Issued by: Help Net Security

Twilio has confirmed that, for 8 or so hours on July 19, a malicious version of their TaskRouter JS SDK was being served from their one of their AWS S3 buckets. “Due to a misconfiguration in the S3 bucket that was hosting the library, a bad actor was able to inject code that made the…

Vulnerabilities

Emerging risk trends: Top risks to identify and address

Issued by: Help Net Security

Senior executives reported concerns around renewed outbreaks of the COVID-19 pandemic as their top emerging risk in the second quarter of 2020, according to Gartner. Gartner surveyed 131 senior executives across industries and geographies on the top concerns facing their businesses with results showing that the second wave of COVID-19 topped executives’ concerns, even as…

Vulnerabilities

20,000+ new vulnerability reports predicted for 2020, shattering previous records

Issued by: Help Net Security

Over 9,000 new vulnerabilities have been reported in the first six months of 2020, and we are on track to see more than 20,000 new vulnerability reports this year — a new record, Skybox Security reveals. Reshaping the way that people work 50% increase in mobile vulnerabilities highlights dangers of blurring line between corporate and…

Network Security

In addition to traditional DDoS attacks, researchers see various abnormal traffic patterns

Issued by: Help Net Security

In the first quarter of 2020, DDoS attacks rose more than 278% compared to Q1 2019, and more than 542% compared to the last quarter, as published in the Nexusguard Q1 2020 Threat Report. DDoS attacks have become a global risk, and as attacks continue to increase in complexity, further spurred by the pandemic, ISPs…

Vulnerabilities

Overconfident about their security, businesses are falling victims to bot attacks

Issued by: Help Net Security

Many businesses are at risk from bot attacks, despite an awareness of the problem and a widely held belief that they have the problem under control, Netacea reveals. Global businesses at risk from bot attacks The research surveyed businesses across the travel, entertainment, e-commerce and financial services sectors. It found a high awareness of how…

Cloud Security

Cloud services help adapt and respond to COVID-19 challenges

Issued by: Help Net Security

38 percent of businesses have scaled infrastructure to meet new levels of demand during the lockdown period (March-June), highlighting how the pandemic has accelerated businesses’ digital transformation plans, according to Aptum. The findings also demonstrate that organizations that adopted cloud technologies prior to the pandemic have been best positioned to deal with the unprecedented crisis,…

Malware & Threats

New wave of attacks aiming to rope home routers into IoT botnets

Issued by: Help Net Security

A Trend Micro research is warning consumers of a major new wave of attacks attempting to compromise their home routers for use in IoT botnets. The report urges users to take action to stop their devices from enabling this criminal activity. The importance of home routers for IoT botnets There has been a recent spike…