Infected devices behind a company’s protected network can still communicate with the outside without being detected, despite properly configured perimeter defenses, show the results of a recent study.
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Current Threat Prevention Systems Are Not Enough Protection for Enterprises
Infected devices behind a company’s protected network can still communicate with the outside without being detected, despite properly configured perimeter defenses, show the results of a recent study.
read moreThe 50 Best Cloud Security Blogs of 2015
There’s a lot going on around cybersecurity – so where do you go to get the best and most useful news on what hackers, security experts, big firms and government offices are doing, and what you can do to stay safe? Here are 50 of our favorite spots for actionable security “intel.”
read moreThe 20 Coolest Cloud Security Vendors Of The 2015 Cloud 100
Cloud security platforms are helping organizations mitigate risks associated with using cloud-based applications and services. They can provide strong data protection capabilities, incorporating data loss prevention and data encryption and tokenization. A group of vendors provide identity and access management capabilities. Others monitor cloud-based systems for suspicious activity and provide a mechanism for policy enforcement, reporting and alerting. Some vendors are also pushing the envelope, providing SaaS-based tools for managing incident response activities, a cloud-based sandbox to analyze and identify advanced threats or track and control employee laptops, smartphones and tablets regardless of their location.
read moreSony's Cyber-Whodunit Is a Page-Turner
Was the devastating attack on Sony strictly an inside job? Or did North Korean hackers somehow gain both the expertise and the access to carry out one of the biggest cyberheists in history? "That North Korea is involved seems implausible," said Sean Sullivan, a security advisor at F-Secure, "but we now live in interesting times, so that theory can no longer be dismissed out of hand."
The Evolution of DGAs In Malware: An Interview with Aviv Raff
A cyber threat that first reared its ugly head back in 2008 continues to evolve in some of today’s malware.
4 Cybersecurity Lessons From Regin Outbreak
Symantec's discovery of state-backed malware should serve as warning to firms.
Hackers Humiliate U.S. State Department
The U.S. government may be thwarting thousands of daily attempts to penetrate its IT systems, but the number of successful attacks clearly is increasing, giving the appearance that the bad guys are winning at least a few battles, if not the war. Making matters worse, the security safeguards breached are roughly the same as those used by most U.S. businesses, noted Core Security's Eric Cowperthwaite.
New Variant of Matsnu Trojan Uses Configurable DGA
The Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) used by a new variant of the Matsnu Trojan (also known as Trustezeb) relies on an interesting technique to avoid detection by security solutions.
Matsnu Botnet DGA Discovers Power of Words
Domain generation algorithms have been botmasters’ favorite tool for keeping malware up and running—and for frustrating security researchers and detection technologies.
Home Depot Traces Credit Card Data Hack To Supplier Compromise
US retailer Home Depot said it has traced the world’s second largest theft of credit card details from its systems back to a supplier’s compromised username and password.
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