Security News

SecureLink simplifies vendors privileged access management for healthcare organizations
2020-01-17 04:15

SecureLink, the leader in vendor privileged access management, released SecureLink for Healthcare to provide hospitals and healthcare organizations a centralized solution for managing privileged access for third-party vendors. It is customized to meet the needs of organizations operating under HIPAA and HITECH regulations and gives network administrators the ability to limit access to specific systems and applications, while providing a full video audit and keystroke logging of sessions.

Antivirus Vendors Patch Bug First Discovered 10 Years Ago
2020-01-06 18:37

Four antivirus providers have released patches for an issue that was initially detailed by a researcher more than 10 years ago. Reported by Thierry Zoller in 2009, the bug resides in an attacker's ability to craft compressed archives that, although accessible to a user, cannot be scanned by the antivirus product.

CISOs are skeptical about claims made by cybersecurity vendors
2019-12-18 06:00

There is a high level of skepticism about claims due to vague product descriptions, ambiguous statistics, limited ability to measure product effectiveness, and a general lack of follow-through by...

Survey: Customers want integration and strategic support from security vendors
2019-12-17 21:16

Vendors get low marks for customer support and committing to benchmarks.

Supply chain security: Five IT strategies for choosing vendors wisely
2019-09-05 05:30

With the proliferation of SaaS solutions, API integrations and cloud computing, virtually everything in the modern enterprise is connected to untold number of outside entities. In fact, many...

Five vendors accounted for 24.1% of vulnerabilities in 2019 so far
2019-08-26 04:30

Risk Based Security reported today that VulnDB aggregated 11,092 vulnerabilities with disclosure dates during the first half of 2019, with CVE/NVD falling behind by 4,332 entries, according to...

NAS vendors hit by brute force ransomware attacks
2019-07-29 13:13

Cybercriminals are targeting numerous Network Attached Storage vendors with a new wave of ransomware.

Firmware Bugs Plague Server Supply Chain, 7 Vendors Impacted
2019-07-17 17:43

Lenovo, Acer and five additional server manufacturers are hit with supply-chain bugs buried in motherboard firmware.

PCI SSC unveils two new validation programs for software vendors and assessors
2019-06-28 04:00

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) announced two new validation programs for use by payment software vendors to demonstrate that both their development practices and their payment...