Tag: Security

November 4, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted crooks impersonating major law firm powerhouses to try and trick people into making payments for bogus work. Experts from Abnormal Security uncovered a brand new Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack, conducted by a threat actor dubbed […]

October 31, 2022

Over the past few years, businesses have transitioned their operations from in-house to remote and hybrid environments. While the shift was temporary and necessary amid the pandemic, benefits like reduced overhead, flexible work schedules, improved morale, enhanced customer experience, and […]

October 28, 2022

The Internet of Things (IoT) is perhaps the most rapidly growing technology in recent years. The accelerated development of IoT technologies is enabling businesses to innovate on a never-before-seen scale, but it is also raising unprecedented cybersecurity concerns. Companies must […]

October 18, 2022

As part of the development of JFrog Xray’s new Secrets Detection feature, we wanted to test our detection capabilities on as much real world data as possible, both to make sure we eliminate false positives and to catch any errant […]

October 12, 2022

Windows 11’s first big update (22H2) has run into further trouble, this time related to Windows Hello logins. As Bleeping Computer(opens in new tab) reports, Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 11 22H2 update is being blocked from some PCs […]

October 11, 2022

Since its inception, the global pandemic has continued to have a long-lasting impact on how we buy, work, and also how our businesses operate.  As such, user behaviour has naturally evolved, leading to developments in customer experience (CX) to meet […]

October 3, 2022

A quarter of IT professionals either don’t know or don’t think Microsoft 365 data can be impacted by a ransomware attack, research from Hornetsecurity has claimed. In addition, 40% of IT professionals that use Microsoft 365 in their organization admitted […]

September 14, 2022

September’s Patch Tuesday is upon us, giving Microsoft the opportunity to fix, among other things, two zero-day vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the wild. As per the company’s security advisory, the two flaws are tracked as CVE-2022-37969, and CVE-2022-23960. The […]

August 23, 2022

In an unexpected turn of events, a ransomware operator has found itself on the receiving end of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, all because they tried to leak stolen data. According to a BleepingComputer report, the LockBit group […]

August 22, 2022

Security is one of the few things that will survive the budget axe should the world plunge into recession, but it’s increasingly clear that we can’t simply spend our way to a secure future. Indeed, SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software […]

August 17, 2022

Rubber Ducky, the USB hacking tool that has reached celebrity status due to its part notoriety, has gotten a brand-new iteration, one more dangerous than ever before. Security expert Darren Kitchen showed off Rubber Ducky 3.0 at the recent DEF […]

August 15, 2022

A flaw discovered in some Xiaomi phones(opens in new tab) could have cost users their hard-earned money. Cybersecurity experts from Check Point Research (CPR) found a flaw in the devices’ mobile payment mechanism, which threat actors could have used to […]

July 28, 2022

Security researchers have discovered two major flaws in FileWave’s endpoint(opens in new tab) management software which could have given threat actors a way to circumvent authentication measures and completely take over the affected devices. The flaws affected more than 1,100 […]

July 26, 2022

Making sure you have strong passwords has been common security advice for some time, but Google Chrome is now looking to go a step further with its latest update. The browser is reportedly working on a new feature which will […]

July 25, 2022

Several schools and other educational organizations are having to restrict usage of Google’s software, including its Chrome browser and Chrome OS offerings over security and privacy fears. The Dutch Ministry of Education has ordered the country’s education industry to implement […]

July 8, 2022

An update coming to Microsoft Teams will help prevent unwanted chats from external users in an effort to boost security in its video conferencing suite. The entry’s(opens in new tab) title reads: “External access chat invitation flow for managed organizations” […]

June 15, 2022

Security is a significant concern for Kubernetes and container-based development, according to Red Hat’s State of Kubernetes Security report for 2022.In fact, 93% of survey respondents experienced at least one security incident in their Kubernetes and container environments in the […]

June 13, 2022

If you’ve downloaded an interesting-looking Android app from Google Play anytime in the last few weeks that for one reason or another felt… kind of sketchy, you might want to check out our latest list of malicious titles caught red-handed […]

May 9, 2022

Low code continues to receive a lot of press—and debate. Many software developers still wonder whether the use of low code makes the application development process better, or if it interferes with the development process and results in inferior applications. […]

May 6, 2022

A misconfiguration in Google Cloud Platform has been found which could give threat actors full control over a target virtual machine (VM) endpoint, researchers have said. In a blog post published by cloud incident response experts Mitiga, the company noted […]