Category: Cybersecurity

May 17, 2022

Defined as a network of 3D virtual worlds focused on enhancing social connections through conventional personal computing and virtual reality and augmented reality headsets, the metaverse was once a fringe concept that few thought much, if anything, about. But more […]

May 4, 2022

Security researcher John Page (aka hyp3rlinx) specializes in finding bugs in malware and publishing them on his website and Twitter account. Recently he published a way to use those vulnerabilities to stop ransomware from encrypting files. As it turns out, […]

May 3, 2022

Security would be so much easier if our networks were not so complicated! It’s a tempting illusion that we can just take out our checklists of best and worst practices, compare each component to the rules, make sure each configuration […]

April 21, 2022

Videoconferencing platform Zoom has made a new round of cyber security enhancements to its service, adding new third-party certifications and attestations, product innovations and updates to established programmes. The break-out tech star of the first Covid-19 lockdown, Zoom nevertheless attracted […]

March 31, 2022

Cyber security is failing to keep pace with generational global upheavals and is in need of significant investment and focus as a result, GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming has told an audience at Australia’s National Security College (NSC) at Australian National […]

March 29, 2022

Have you recently received a text message…from your own phone number? If so, do not click the link you were sent! You obviously didn’t send it to yourself. And your phone carrier, likely Verizon in this case, did not send […]

March 22, 2022

NetApp has upgraded its Cloud Insights infrastructure management software with artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning so that it automatically generates a topology of a customer’s infrastructure and even predicts impacts from observed events. The NetApp product has also added anti-ransomware capability […]

March 1, 2022

VMware is entering the race to secure modern, cloud-native environments by adding container runtime protection to its Carbon Black Container security product, which it launched in April 2021. Defending cloud-native environments at runtime is presenting developers and security professionals with […]

February 18, 2022

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday published a repository of free tools and services to enable organizations to mitigate, detect, and respond effectively to malicious attacks and further improve their security posture. The “Free Cybersecurity Services […]

January 28, 2022

Lazarus, a known cybercrime group with ties to the North Korean government, has managed to abuse the Windows Update Client to distribute malware, cybersecurity researchers from Malwarebytes have found. In a blog post detailing their findings, the researchers said they […]