Johannesburg based Intact Software Distribution, Security Distributor from South Africa expanding its reach in Africa with the opening up an office in Nairobi, Kenya to serve the East African market. Leading names in information security business such as Avira, Bitdefender, F-Secure, Kaspersky Lab, Avast, Iron Tree, Group IB, and Cybonet areRead More…
Guest written by Greg Wiseman, senior security researcher at Rapid7 about this month’s Microsoft patches, which were released last tuesday This month sees another spate of critical fixes from Microsoft, including patches for a number of Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. Two of these are already known to be exploitedRead More…
According to a report by Kaspersky Lab’s its researchers noticed a significant spike in the number of malware infection attempts targeting industrial customers. They identified over 500 attacked companies in 50 countries, mainly industrial enterprises and large transportation and logistics corporations. The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team at KasperskyRead More…
The analysts from Gartner highlighted top security technologies that will have impact on the security of organisations later in this year and the findings are presented below: Remote Browser isolates end-user internet browsing sessions from enterprise endpoints and networks. By isolating the browsing function, malware is kept off of the end-user’s systemRead More…
ESET researchers discovered the most sophisticated and extremely dangerous malware, Win32/Industroyer that is designed to disrupt critical industrial processes and capable is of performing an attack on power supply infrastructure. The malware is believed to be involved in the December 2016 attack on Ukraine’s power grid that deprived part of itsRead More…
Fortinet announced the findings of its latest Global Threat Landscape Report. The data spans the cybersecurity kill chain focusing on three central aspects of the landscape, including application exploits, malicious software, and botnets against the backdrop of important enterprise technology and industry sector trends. The research reveals that while more highRead More…
Microsoft released patches to fix 94 vulnerabilities out of which 27 fix remote code execution issues which can allow an attacker to remotely take control of victim machines. This is a massive update and fixes more than double the number of vulnerabilities as compared to the last two months. MicrosoftRead More…
Guest written by Charles Habak, Vice President and Wayne Loveless, Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton MENA. WannaCry (Wcry) represents the latest version of a growing threat called ransomware – a tailored piece of malware designed to exploit specific vulnerabilities in the operating systems of its victims’ computers. Malware outbreaks areRead More…
