Just days after fixing two zero day vulnerabilities, Google has rolled out yet another version of its Chrome browser, resolving a fix for last month's NAT Slipstream attack. Administrators are cautioning users this week that if they haven't already, to apply recent updates to Google's Chrome browser in order to mitigate not one but two recent zero day vulnerabilities. A version from last week, 86.0.4240.198 for Windows,...
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Why vulnerability prioritization has become a top challenge for security professionals and how security and development teams can get it right. When it comes to addressing their backlog of unfixed security issues, many software development organizations are facing an uphill battle. One reason is the proliferation of automated security tools. Adopting automated solutions helps developers and security shift testing left and eliminate time-consuming manual processes, and...
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Despite a recent decline in attacks, ransomware still poses significant threats to enterprises, as the attacks against healthcare organizations demonstrated this month. It is also becoming more capable. In particular, ransomware writers are aware that backups are an effective defense and are modifying their malware to track down and eliminate the backups. Ransomware targeting backups Ransomware will now delete any backups it happens to come across along...
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One of the smartest moves you can make to protect employees, especially those working from home, is to encourage them to use a password manager. It’s one of the easiest, too. Keyword best practices pertain to complexity, change frequency and uniqueness. Each best practice is intended to mitigate known attack methods and harden your online identities to both prevent compromise and limit the damage if account...
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Why are connected medical devices vulnerable to attack and how likely are they to get hacked? Here are five digital chinks in the armor. There’s virtually no realm in healthcare today that isn’t adopting more technology. From real-time wireless access to your own health parameters through smart watches and wearables to implanted devices inside your body, technology is coming. But can we secure it all? Several years...
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Virtual appliances are a popular way for software vendors to distribute their products to enterprise customers as they contain all the necessary pre-configured software stacks their applications need to function and can be deployed in public clouds or private data centers with ease. Unfortunately, enterprises are at risk of deploying images that are vulnerable out-of-the-box according to a new study. It found that many vendors,...
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