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Get Ready for WannaCry 2.0

Another widespread worm attack is "inevitable," but spreading a different more lucrative or destructive payload, experts say.

Cloud Spend Analytics: How GlobalDots Helped Our Customer Cut 25% From Their AWS Bill

Recently I’ve been hearing the same story from my clients, it’s getting so predictable I’m almost finishing their sentences for them. It goes something like this...

Phishers Increasingly Targeting Cloud Storage and SaaS

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has been tracking notable increases in phishing campaigns that target SAAS/webmail providers, as well as increased attacks on financial / banking targets and cloud storage and file-sharing sites. But banks remain the most popular targets, with phishers[...]

Software Defined Operations: What Is It and How Does it Work?

Does your cloud platform feel like the Wild West? Do you have multiple admins running around causing havoc because you can’t keep tabs on them all? Well you’re not alone and help is at hand. Enter the world of Software Defined Operations or SDO.

Gandcrab Ransomware Exploits Website Vulnerabilities

Researchers find campaigns distributing Gandcrab by hosting malware on legitimate websites with poor security measures.

New Rowhammer Attack Can Hijack Computers Remotely Over the Network

Exploitation of Rowhammer attack just got easier.

Microsoft Launches Its Own Content Delivery Network 'Azure CDN'

Microsoft just launched the public preview of its own global CDN network, which is now available through ‘Azure CDN’. Azure customers will be able to use and deliver content from Microsoft’s own global CDN network. The Microsoft CDN will be added as an option in Azure CDN next to existing provider[...]

Breach Activity Declines, Number of Compromised Records Remains High

After year over year increases in the number of reported data breaches, Risk Based Security has released the results of their Q1 2018 Data Breach QuickView Report, showing the number of breaches disclosed in the first three months of the year fell to 686 compared to 1,444 breaches reported in Q1[...]

Half of All Companies Do Not Have Adequate Application Security Visibility

The Ponemon Institute surveyed nearly 1,400 IT and IT security practitioners in the United States, European Union and Asia-Pacific to understand the risk unprotected applications pose to businesses when running in unsecured environments and how they are addressing this risk.

First-Ever Ransomware Found Using Using 'Process Doppelgänging' Attack to Evade Detection

Security researchers have spotted the first-ever ransomware exploiting Process Doppelgänging, a new fileless code injection technique that could help malware evade detection.