Derek Manky, Global Security Strategist at Fortinet discusses the need to paint a new security landscape to keep pace with the agile development cybercriminals are employing. It’s time again for another quarterly trek into the wilds of the cyber-threat landscape. As security practitioners work to put themselves in the shoesRead More…
Morey Haber, CTO at BeyondTrust discusses 5 best practices for getting your organization “Privilege Ready” People are an organizations’ most valuable resource. But they can also be its greatest vulnerability, especially when armed with weak credentials, all-too-powerful privileged accounts, and security ignorance or hubris. The problem is simple—too many users haveRead More…
Tomas Foltyn, security writer from ESET in this article discusses the far-fetched idea of knocking down a power grid with an home appliance but according to researchers electrical grids and smart home appliances could make for a dangerous mix Cybercriminals could rope internet-connected household appliances into a botnet in order toRead More…
Harish Chib, Vice President for Middle East & Africa at Sophos explains how not to let your network become part of the next global botnet attack Botnets are large volumes of distributed networked computers and devices that have been taken over by a cybercriminal.Read More…
Prashant Verma, AVP – Threat Management.at Paladion discusses the risks associated with Chip based credit cards or debit cards and how it can be countered by both users and issuers respectively.Read More…
A team of seven researchers has discovered more than 20 security vulnerabilities in OpenEMR, an open-source application used worldwide for the electronic management of the medical records of almost 100 million people.Read More…
Sreeraj Gopinathan, Head of Threat Anticipation Services at Paladion discusses the discovery of the threat, NetSpectre that is a variant on the new Spectre family of attacks and explains how it can infiltrate and compromise the security of a organization. Read More…
Written by Cameron Camp, security researcher at ESET Industrial Control System (ICS) security was ramped up at Black Hat USA – with packed sessions ranging from specific attacks to vulnerable hardware – all with the aim of protecting critical infrastructure, whose security shortcomings so frequently hit the headlines these days.Read More…
