DarkMatter to showcase at Black Hat 2017 Vegas
2017-07-03
DarkMatter has announced its significant presence at Black Hat 2017 taking place in Las Vegas, USA. Black Hat is the world’s leading information security eventRead More…
Sophos XG firewall among top performers by NSS labs
2017-07-03
Sophos has announced that NSS Labs has rated the Sophos XG Firewall as one of the highest performing firewalls in the industry in its most recent Next-Generation Firewall Group Test Report . Read More…
GoldenEye highlights importance of eliminating network blind spots
2017-07-02
Mohammed Al-Moneer, Regional Director, MENA at A10 Networks speaks about a new a new variant of the Petrwrap/Petya ransomware.Read More…
Microsoft: Petya had ‘far less reach’ than expected
2017-07-02
The Petya ransomware was designed to lock files on the infected computer and demand payment from victims to get their files unlocked. Following the launch of the Petya ransomware attack around the world last week, Microsoft’s telemetry data has now shed some light on the scale of the worm-able ransomwareRead More…
Money or disruption: What motivated Petya attack?
2017-06-29
The Petya ransomware attack that was inspired by WannaCry attack, kicked off on June 27. Symantec has investigated the motivation behind the Petya attack, to understand whether money or disruption is the more likely motivation of the people behind the Petya cyber attack. According to Symantec telemetry, the majority of victimsRead More…
Top countries impacted by Petya
2017-06-29
The Symantec Response team did further analysis on the attack and released the Top 20 countries impacted by Petya. Ukraine, US, Russia, France and the UK were the most impacted (see graph below). Similar to WannaCry, Petya uses the Eternal Blue exploit as one of the means to propagate itself. HoweverRead More…
Trend Micro launches $100M venture fund
2017-06-29
Trend Micro has today announced the launch of a corporate venture fund to explore emerging technology markets. With an initial investment of $100 million, this venture fund will allow Trend Micro to nurture a portfolio of startups that are incubating ideas and living at the epicenter of hyper growth markets,Read More…
Cybersecurity stocks sore
2017-06-29
A recent CNBC report has revealed that many cybersecurity companies saw their stocks rally Wednesday as the “Petya” ransomware program immobilized more than 12,000 computers from companies around the world in order to extort money from their owners, according to numbers from Microsoft.Read More…