Oracle’s cloudy partnership with Microsoft, announced in June, was one of the more eyebrow-raising stories of 2019. On the surface, it may have seemed peculiar, but digging down, the duo’s focus on retail customers – particularly with some retailers wishing to steer clear of AWS – made sense.Now,[...]
Multivector and cloud computing attacks have been rising over the last twelve months, according to Link11. The share of multivector attacks – which target and misuse several protocols – grew significantly from 46% in the first quarter to 65% in the fourth quarter.DNS amplification was the most used[...]
Armis, the leading enterprise IoT security company, announced the discovery of five zero-day vulnerabilities in various implementations of the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP).
The implementation of massive MIMO in 5G systems is changing, according to a Mobile Experts report.There’s a shift away from the dominant position of 64T64R mMIMO, toward 32T32R systems. During initial 5G system roll-outs, the distinct preference was to achieve best coverage and data rate, leading[...]
Palo Alto Networks released research showing how vulnerabilities in the development of cloud infrastructure are creating significant security risks.The Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report: Spring 2020 investigates why cloud misconfigurations happen so frequently. It finds that as organizations move to[...]
Check Point Research analysts who discovered two vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure have published the details of how these flaws were found and how attackers could potentially use them.The research team began exploring Azure infrastructure in an effort "to disprove the[...]
Organizations are not making progress in reducing their endpoint security risk, especially against new and unknown threats, a Ponemon Institute study reveals.68% IT security professionals say their company experienced one or more endpoint attacks that compromised data assets or IT infrastructure in[...]
Distributed denial-of-service mitigation and infrastructure provider Cloudflare kicked off the new year with the acquisition of a browser security firm and the launch of a new security service that includes a combination of identity and access management, endpoint protection, and Internet filtering.
Microsoft is the most popular supplier of public cloud services and is continuing to gain on AWS, according to research. What's more, the tech giant's cloud platform, Azure, is expected to dominate the market over the next three years. This is according to a survey of over 100 IT executives from[...]
The most widely-used cyber attack method used to breach large companies in 2019 was cross-site scripting (XSS), according to research. The hacking technique, in which cyber criminals inject malicious scripts into trusted websites, was used in 39% of cyber incidents this year.This was followed by[...]
