Security News > 2021 > August
Identity-as-a-service slinger Okta has poached Google veep of engineering Sagnik Nandy to become its president and chief tech officer. Nandy will run his new employer's engineering and business technology functions, including the planning of product development activities.
With the proliferation of attack surfaces in IoT, the increase in firmware-based attacks on hardware, and growing threats to systems throughout their lifecycle, companies are beginning to embrace...
Crime-as-a-Service (CaaS) is the practice of experienced cybercriminals selling access to the tools and knowledge needed to execute cybercrime – in particular, it’s often used to create phishing...
In the first half (H1) of 2021, ransomware attacks skyrocketed, eclipsing the entire volume for 2020 in only six months, according to the mid-year update to the SonicWall report. In a new paradigm...
Many application owners are unaware of how vulnerable their SAP applications may be, significantly increasing the risks to their core enterprise systems. This is the overall conclusion of a...
Reposify released its Pharmaceutical Industry Attack Surface Exposures Report examining the security posture of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. The report analyzed eighteen leading...
As cyber incidents increase in scope and impact, more and more organizations come to realize that outsourcing their defenses is the best practice-significantly increasing the Managed Security Service Provider market opportunities. This is beginning to change as a result of certain security vendors, like Cynet, that provide a purpose-built partner offering that enables IT integrators, VARs, and MSPs to provide managed security service with zero investment in hardware or personnel.
SolarWinds released a report which examines how technology professionals perceive their organizations’ risk management and mitigation readiness after a year of rapid transformation fueled by the...
Attack protection specialist Cybereason has fingered threat actors working on behalf of "Chinese state interests" as being behind attacks on telcos operating in Southeast Asia - with some having been prowling the penetrated networks for information on high-value targets since 2017. "Telcos are a prime target for nation-state espionage programs for various reasons, among them, the ability to collect information about the telco's subscribers," Assaf Dahan, senior director and head of threat research at Cybereason, told.
Ransom demands have grown substantially over the past year, smaller companies are increasingly targeted, and cyber criminals continue to take advantage of dislocations in how we work, according to...