In an attempt to create a safe and resilient cyber infrastructure in the UAE, the The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has announced the launch of the UAE National Cybersecurity Strategy. The new strategy enables citizens to fulfil their aspirations and empowers businesses to thrive. The UAE National Cybersecurity Strategy aims to deliverRead More…
Researchers have identified a critical security vulnerability in Microsoft Office’s Excel spreadsheet program, that allows an attacker to trigger a malware attack on remote systems. A Microsoft Excel feature called Power Query can be exploited to plant malware on remote systems. Researchers at Mimecast Threat Center say they have developed aRead More…
Researchers have spotted a variant of the Dridex banking trojan with stronger capabilities that help it skirt anti-virus detection. While Dridex has been around since 2011, researchers have said that they recently spotted phishing emails distributing a never-before-seen variant of the malware. This variant uses file signatures that are difficultRead More…
The CISO had been struggling to articulate the importance of risk-based decision making and found creating a risk appetite statement for the organization to be the most effective tool in aligning IT risk management with business goals.Read More…
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) researchers have designed a Co-processor for Partially Homomorphic Encrypted Execution (CoPHEE), a microprocessor that provides support for data privacy using cryptography.Read More…
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 threat researchers have discovered one new vulnerability addressed by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) as part of their June 2019 security update release, as well as nine additional vulnerabilities that were addressed in May 2019.Read More…
DarkMatter Group, today unveiled a first-of-its-kind, personalized cybersecurity-awareness program, Cyber Smart, to equip individual employees at diverse organizations with the skills necessary to defend against the growing threat of complex and destructive cybersecurity attacks.Read More…
FireEye, the intelligence-led security company, today released the results of its Q1’19 Email Threat Report. After analyzing a sample set of 1.3 billion emails, FireEye found increase in attacks in three main areas: spoofed phishing attempts, HTTPS encryption in URL-based attacks, and cloud-based attacks focused on publicly hosted, trusted file-sharingRead More…
