Security News

Facebook Announces 2019 Internet Defense Prize Winners
2019-08-21 04:19

Facebook has announced the 2019 winners of the Internet Defense Prize, an award offered in partnership with USENIX. Created in 2014, the award is meant to recognize and reward research that...

Harnessing Stunt Hacking for Enterprise Defense
2019-08-20 09:42

Make Sure You Understand the Root Cause of the Vulnerabilities or Attack Vectors Behind the Next Over-Hyped Stunt Hack Every year, at least one mediocre security vulnerability surprisingly...

Red teaming: Why a forward offense is the best defense
2019-08-19 05:45

Companies are under constant threat. Opportunistic attackers scan the internet for weak points, motivated attackers target specific organizations for susceptibility to a scam or digital exploit,...

Samsung’s products achieve the STIG approval for deployment within the Department of Defense
2019-08-19 00:00

Samsung Electronics America announces that its flagship products continue to obtain federal certification with the recent approval of the Samsung Galaxy S10 series, Note9 and Galaxy S9 join the...

Industrial Defense In The Cloud
2019-08-13 11:52

It was not that long ago when one of the measures of a company’s maturity was whether it had its own data center or not. In some cases, the data center occupied one or two floors in the company’s...

New Playbooks for Cyber Defense
2019-08-09 19:48

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs global threat research team is creating research playbooks that provide deep-dive analysis of not only threat trends, but also cybercriminal and adversary tools and...

New SWAPGS Side-Channel Attack Bypasses Spectre and Meltdown Defenses
2019-08-07 13:55

Researchers demonstrate a new side-channel attack that bypass mitigations against Spectre and Meltdown.

Prevent lateral attacks inside the data center with a defense-in-depth hardware layer
2019-08-06 05:15

IT departments tend to be concerned primarily with cybersecurity attacks that originate from outside the enterprise, known as a “north-south” attacks. This often leaves them more vulnerable to...

Close but no cigar, Google: How websites can dodge Chrome 76's defenses and still detect you're in Incognito mode
2019-08-05 20:27

Three key words: File, write, benchmark A week ago, Google released Chrome 76, which included a change intended to prevent websites from detecting when browser users have activated Incognito mode.…

Confluera launches its Early Access Program for Real-time Attack Interception and Defense platform
2019-08-01 02:00

Confluera, the real-time cybersecurity company, announced that it has raised $9 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed’s Ravi Mhatre with significant participation by John W. Thompson,...