Security News

Google Expands Android's Compiler-Based Mitigations
2018-06-29 14:09

Google this week announced expanded compiler-based mitigations in Android P, in an attempt to make bugs harder to exploit and prevent specific types of issues from becoming vulnerabilities. read more

Microsoft Releases Mitigations for Spectre-Like 'Variant 4' Attack
2018-06-13 05:47

Updates released by Microsoft on Tuesday for its Windows operating system add support for a feature that should prevent attacks involving the recently disclosed speculative execution vulnerability...

Cloudflare Improves DDoS Mitigation Tool
2018-05-22 18:32

Cloudflare announced a series of improvements to its Rate Limiting distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection tool this week.  read more

Google Releases Additional Meltdown Mitigations for Android
2018-05-09 11:52

As part of its May 2018 Android Security Bulletin, Google this week released additional mitigations for the Meltdown attack that impacts microprocessors from Intel, AMD, and other vendors. read more

Faster Payments: Effective Fraud Mitigation Strategies
2018-05-08 19:33

Expert Insights on Fraud Management for Payment NetworksPayments are getting faster, and so is payments fraud. A robust fraud management strategy focusing on strong authentication, customer...

DNS Threat Mitigation
2018-04-30 18:18

Andrew Wertkin of BlueCat Networks Outlines What Enterprises Need to Do NowDNS is not well understood as a signal and control point in cybersecurity, says Andrew Wertkin of BlueCat Networks, who...

Why good security foundations are better than the best security mitigation
2018-04-30 12:00

Since founding VDOO, we have been working to analyze a great many IoT devices, in the broadest way possible. The more we look into these devices and find their vulnerabilities, the further we...

Microsoft Disables Spectre Mitigations Due to Instability
2018-01-29 06:07

Out-of-band Windows updates released by Microsoft over the weekend disable mitigations for one of the Spectre attack variants as they can cause systems to become unstable. read more