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Modern Web Security Basics

Today’s digital, hyper-connected world has enhanced our lives, both personally and professionally. The internet, mobile devices, cloud computing, social networks and a dozen of other things enable us to be connected to each other all the time. They also allow us to work remotely, and to conduct our[...]

New Security Feature to Prevent Amazon S3 Bucket Misconfiguration and Data Leaks

Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear about an organization leaving sensitive data exposed on the Internet because they failed to properly configure their Amazon S3 buckets.

Organizations Unable to Achieve Business Resilience Against Cyber Threats

The Resilience Gap study, which surveyed over 4,000 business decision makers across the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan found that while 96% of the global business decision makers believe that making technology resilient to business disruptions should be core to their[...]

Reported Breaches in the First 9 Months of 2018 Exposed 3.6 Billion Records

There have been 3,676 publicly disclosed data compromise events through September 30. Breach activity continues at a consistent pace for 2018, which although significant in level, will likely not reach the numbers we saw in 2017, according to the 2018 Q3 Data Breach QuickView report by Risk Based[...]

New Side-Channel Attacks Target Graphics Processing Units

A new brand of side-channel vulnerabilities has been disclosed and this time it's not the CPU that's under attack: it's the GPU.

How Bad Bots Hurt Your Website and What You Can Do To Protect It

In the last few years, the term "bot" has become widey used. Everyone is talking about bots. We hear it used in politics, on social media, and when discussing website traffic.

Two New Bluetooth Chip Flaws Expose Millions of Devices to Remote Attacks

Security researchers have unveiled details of two critical vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips embedded in millions of access points and networking devices used by enterprises around the world.

Worst Malware and Threat Actors of 2018

Two reports call out the most serious malware attacks and attackers of the year (so far).

Destructive Cyberattacks Spiked in Q3

Instead of simply fleeing when discovered, adversaries are actively engaging with incident response teams, a new Carbon Black study finds.

Businesses Shift Physical Security Systems to the Cloud to Access Big Data Insights

A new study of 1500 IT decision makers from the UK, France and Germany has found a favourable shift towards cloud, as well as a need for businesses to adopt technology to extract intelligent insights that accelerate business growth.