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Offensive Security have released Kali Linux 2020.1, which is available for immediate download. Kali Linux 2020.1 key new features. The popular open source project, which is heavily relied upon in the pentest community, is introducing several new features, including new packages and tools.
VMware on Tuesday advised customers using VMware Tools version 10 for Windows to update their installations to version 11 due to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. According to the virtualization giant, the repair operation in VMware Tools 10.x.y is affected by a race condition that allows an attacker who has access to the guest virtual machine to escalate their privileges.
Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published. Motherboard received the brochure as part of a FOIA request to the Irvine Police Department in California.
In early December, Tampa FL-based security services firm ReliaQuest, released a separate report discussing the effect of this tendency to purchase individual stand-alone tools to solve newly discovered issues. Problems include more tools than company capacity to productively use them, and a burden of maintenance forcing security teams to spend more time managing the tools than defending against threats.
Facebook, Samsung and Ring have unveiled new or improved privacy and security tools at the 2020 CES consumer electronics show taking place this week in Las Vegas. Facebook announced a revamped version of Privacy Checkup, a tool launched in 2014 in an effort to make it easier for users to manage the information they share on the social media network.
IBM on Wednesday announced the general availability of Cloud Pak for Security, a solution designed to help organizations hunt for threats by combining data from multiple tools and clouds. read more
IBM announced Cloud Pak for Security, featuring industry-first innovations to connect with any security tool, cloud or on-premise system, without moving data from its original source. The platform...
Ransomware tries to slip unnoticed past security controls by abusing trusted and legitimate processes, and then harnesses internal systems to encrypt the maximum number of files and disable backup...
Cyberattacks on small and midsized companies in 2019 cost $200,000 per company on average, mercilessly putting many of them out of business, says CNBC in its analysis of a recent Accenture report....
86% of enterprises have deployed cloud-based tools, but only 34% have implemented single sign-on (SSO), one of the most basic and critically important cloud security tools, according to Bitglass....