Security News > 2018 > March

This week's DDoS attack against GitHub is a harbinger of attacks to come that will use the highly effective memcached amplification technique, say experts.

Microsoft has pushed out a new set of Spectre (variant 2) security updates. For the moment, these are just for some devices running on Skylake CPUs and Windows 10 Fall Creators Update or Windows...

Nuance Communications, one of the companies to have been impacted by the destructive NotPetya attack last year, estimates the financial cost of the attack at over $90 million. read more

Even though I've been analyzing malware for the past 20 years, I do understand that internet security is not merely a technical problem, but also a business problem. I agree that any company's...

To prepare for compliance with the EU's GDPR, which will be enforced beginning in May, organizations must adopt a "privacy by design" approach, says Subhajit Deb, CISO at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories,...

Although most organizations plan to increase adoption of IoT into operations, only 28 percent consider security strategies specific to IoT as “very important.” Anticipated timeframe for an IoT...

The first column in this series focused on the preparation phase of Incident Response (IR), while the second covered what I call the response phase. read more

Demisto brings visibility into SOC metrics Demisto’s latest release of its Security Operations Platform enables customers to leverage the incident metrics through customizable dashboards and...