Security News > 2023 > November

Indian politicians and media figures have reported that Apple has warned them their accounts may be under attack by state-sponsored actors. Mahua's post therefore accuses India's government of being the state actor Apple believe has attacked her iPhone.

Ransomware attacks continue at a record-breaking pace, with Q3 2023 global ransomware attack frequency up 11% over Q2 and 95% year-over-year, according to Corvus Insurance. In its Q2 2023 Global Ransomware Report, Corvus noted a significant resurgence in global ransomware attacks, which has continued through the third quarter.

F5 is warning of active abuse of a critical security flaw in BIG-IP less than a week after its public disclosure that could result in the execution of arbitrary system commands as part of an...

While many organizations run their core business applications on the mainframe, IT leaders lack confidence in the effectiveness of their mainframe security compliance, signaling a need for more robust security practices, according to Rocket Software. A mere 27% of survey participants are highly confident in their organization's mainframe security compliance effectiveness.

An overwhelming 98% of all the businesses surveyed use Java in their software applications or infrastructure, and 57% of those organizations indicate that Java is the backbone of most of their applications, according to Azul. 82% of respondents using Oracle Java said they are concerned about the new Java SE Universal subscription pricing introduced in January.

Nutanix announced new features in the Nutanix Cloud Platform to strengthen organizations' cyber resilience against ransomware attacks on unstructured data. These new features, available in Nutanix Data Lens and Nutanix Unified Storage solutions, enable organizations to detect a threat, defend from further damage and begin a 1-click recovery process within 20 minutes of exposure.