Security News > 2019 > January

Considering an SD-WAN deployment? The best solution may already be in your network
2019-01-14 07:00

When the internet goes down, business stops. Every business today relies on cloud applications to run day-to-day operations, including CRM applications like Salesforce, engineering collaboration...

Brit hacker hired by Liberian telco to nobble opposition jailed
2019-01-14 06:56

Bloke binned at Blackfriars for blasting botnet to bork broadband A 30 year-old man from Surrey has been given 32 months in jail after admitting to a series of DDoS attacks on an African telco.…

Strategies for expertly protecting industrial control systems
2019-01-14 06:45

Andrew Ginter is the Vice President of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security Solutions. We sat down with him to learn more about his new book, Secure Operations Technology, a collection of...

Why security by design and security DevOps are so critical to success
2019-01-14 06:30

The advances made in technology throughout the past several decades have brought about an inevitable digital transformation, which companies are experiencing in today’s world. This transformation...

Huawei Fires Sales Manager Who Poland Charged With Spying
2019-01-14 06:21

The Chinese tech company Huawei on Saturday announced it has fired a sales director who was arrested in Poland and charged with spying for China, saying he has brought the firm’s reputation “into...

Most organizations are migrating data for ERP apps to the cloud
2019-01-14 06:15

According to a Cloud Security Alliance survey, 69 percent of organizations are migrating data for popular ERP applications to the cloud, moving to major cloud infrastructure-as-a-service...

Revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products for cloud environments reached $16.8 billion
2019-01-14 06:00

According to the IDC, vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, grew...

IoT Community announces formation of Security, Privacy & Trust IoT Center of Excellence (SPTIoTCoE)
2019-01-14 02:00

The IoT Community (Internet of Things Community) unveiled the formation of its security, privacy and trust focused IoT Center of Excellence (SPTIoTCoE), which will be Co-Chaired by Nancy Shemwell,...

Week in review: How data becomes intelligence, email security predictions, EU bug bounties
2019-01-13 18:55

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: The attack surface is growing faster than it has at any other point in the history of technology Avast launched its...

Dridex/Locky Operator Uses New RAT in Recent Campaigns
2019-01-13 01:49

The threat actor responsible for large Dridex and Locky distribution campaigns in the past has been using a brand new backdoor in attacks over the past couple of months, Proofpoint reports.  read more