Tenable, the Cyber Exposure company, announced the launch of Nessus® Essentials, an enhanced free version of its market-defining vulnerability assessment solution (formerly Nessus Home). Nessus Essentials is designed to be used by students, professors and people who are starting their cybersecurity careers, helping the next generation to quickly and easilyRead More…
Dimension Data, the USD 8 billion global technology integrator and managed services provider for hybrid IT, has revealed exclusive findings from its Executive Guide to NTT Security’s 2019 Global Threat Intelligence Report concerning the cybersecurity maturity of organisations across a number of markets and sectors. Globally, the average cybersecurity maturityRead More…
Intel has revealed a new class of vulnerabilities impacting all modern Intel chips, which can potentially leak sensitive data from a system’s CPU. Company officials said that the flaws, named Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS), comprise four different attacks, all of which depend on different ways side channel attacks to stealRead More…
Hackers have breached two services and infected over 4,600 websites with malware by modifying their JavaScript code, according to cybersecurity researchers. In a series of tweets, a researcher said that Picreel, an analytics service that enables website owners to see what users are doing and how they interact with a website,Read More…
A vulnerability in the popular Whatsapp has allowed it to be infected with spyware, with a missed in-app call function. It is unclear how many devices have been affected or the extent of the damage caused, but owing to the breach, discovered in early May, Whatsapp is urging people toRead More…
A major remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in products from Kaspersky Lab, which pushed out a patch to customers in early April. The flaw, called CVE-2019-8285 and assigned a CVSS score of 8.0, was reported to Kaspersky by a team called “Imaginary.” The experts found a way to remotely execute arbitraryRead More…
John Maddison, EVP of products and solutions, Fortinet, says that the challenge of securing our networks is accelerating, primarily in direct response to digital transformation efforts that are expanding the attack surface. Cybercriminals are all too eager to exploit new attack vectors and take advantage of new limitations in our visibility andRead More…
An international cybercrime group has attacked the networks of three unnamed US-based antivirus firms and stolen approximately 30 terabytes of data. The group is offering to sell the data, as well as access to the company networks for a sum of $300,000. As first reported by Ars Technica, the “boutique cybersecurityRead More…
