Security News > 2017 > August
Symantec's Robert Arandjelovic on Effective StrategiesFor many organizations, fighting the growing threat of ransomware doesn't necessarily have to mean investing in new technologies, says Robert...
Juniper warned Thursday of a high-risk bug in the GD graphics library used in several versions of its Junos OS.
Google awarded a hefty $10,000 bounty to a high school student last week for uncovering a bug that could have let anyone access an internal Google website.
While continuing to deploy their usual set of hacking tools onto compromised systems, advanced persistent threat (APT) actors were observed using leveraging zero-day vulnerabilities and quickly...
Insufficient staffing levels and quality, together with poor orchestration between too many security point products mean that complete breach intolerance is an aspiration not currently achieved by...
E-commerce fraud protection company Signifyd has recently signed up behavioral analytics expert Long-Ji Lin to fill the position of Chief Scientist. “For advertisers, Lin perfected his model’s...
DirectDefense Charge Against Carbon Black BackfiresSecurity vendors are known to sprinkle hyperbole among their claims. But the strategy has backfired for DirectDefense, which mistakenly cast...
Uruguayan high school student Ezequiel Pereira, who has aspirations of becoming a security researcher one day, has been awarded $10,000 for discovering and reporting a vulnerability in Google’s...
An unnamed company is prepared to offer up to $250,000 for virtual machine (VM) hacks as part of a “secret” bug bounty program, crowdsourced security testing platform Bugcrowd announced this week....
From the Amazon juggernaut to the now legendary story of Uber, examples of digital disruption reshaping markets and industries abound. In fact, in their 2017 State of Digital Disruption study, the...