Security News > 2022 > April

Zerto announced the findings of a ransomware study, revealing that gaps in readiness are seriously impacting the ability of many organizations to manage and recover from attacks. This indicates that, while organizations recognize that one of the best protections against a ransomware attack is the ability to recover from it, many are still struggling to counteract ransomware when prevention has failed.

In your role, you're responsible for breach protection - which means you oversee and govern the process of designing, building, maintaining, and continuously enhancing your organization's security program. You must identify the security issues that matter most, translate that information, and present it in a way that's accessible to those who aren't familiar with cybersecurity.

According to a recent Pew Research survey, 64 percent of Americans are choosing to remain in either a fully remote or hybrid working environment, forcing businesses to grapple with the increasing complexity that comes with migrating and scaling workloads in the cloud. Qa survey respondents rank visibility into cloud data-in-motion as the top security factor globally.

This comprehensive study of nearly 700 technologists, now in its fourth year, explored the most urgent challenges development teams face when building applications with open source. It also reveals new insights into how confident technologists are in their organizations' current open source management practices, and in the open source components and languages they use more generally.

With risks accelerating in volume and variety, AMD belives that meaningful protection for today’s PCs require a carefully layered approach that relies on best-in-class security controls and...

In current enterprise environments, the need for an efficient PC management solution is vital. IT teams are required to build, manage, and secure networks that need to keep up with increased...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added three new security flaws to its list of actively exploited bugs, including a local privilege escalation bug in the Windows Print Spooler. Redmond patched several other Windows Print Spooler bugs in the last 12 months, including the critical PrintNightmare remote code execution vulnerability.

Abstract: Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to train machine learning models, users may delegate the task of learning to a service provider. We show how a malicious learner can plant an undetectable backdoor into a classifier.

Kaspersky has found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang ransomware encryption algorithm and, as a result, released a free decryptor tool to help victims of this software nasty recover their files. Yanluowang, named after a Chinese deity and underworld judge, is a type of ransomware that has been used against financial institutions and other firms in America, Brazil, and Turkey as well as a smaller number of organizations in Sweden and China, Kaspersky said yesterday.

The Emotet malware is having a burst in distribution and is likely to soon switch to new payloads that are currently detected by fewer antivirus engines. Emotet is a self-propagating modular trojan that can maintain persistence on the host.