Inadvertent database exposure continues to be a major risk for organizations. Security professionals are concerned about their database security as employees are now working remotely. Security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from vpnMentor uncovered an unsecured AWS S3...
A research from cybersecurity firm F5 revealed that 96% of users in the Asia Pacific would prefer to choose convenience or seamless application experiences over data security. The research report “Curve of Convenience 2020 Report: The Privacy-Convenience Paradox” stated that...
Chasing Patches
Why does 20% of hacking activity focus on vulnerabilities? Here’s why and it’s no surprise. The cycle of scanning and patching continues as it ever does. The discussion of which patches get deployed in what order ranges from...
The drive-by download attack volume has been witnessing a steep surge since 2018, with India being the second highest in terms of volume of attacks in the Asia Pacific region. The number is nearly three times higher than the...
A recent study by Forrester Research shows that 97% of Indian organizations experienced at least one business-impacting cyberattack in the past 12 months. Yet, only four in 10 security leaders in India have a clear picture of how much...
Research experts from Netskope Cloud warned security teams about the surge in the use of risky apps and websites by the remote workforce, globally. In its report “Cloud and Threat Report - August 2020” Netskope Cloud stated that the...
Have you seen the Tom Cruise flick Minority Report? One of its themes is precrime or the ability to predict a crime before it happens. Well, CYFIRMA, a Singapore-based threat discovery and cyber-intelligence analytics company, seems to have come...
Check Point, in its research dubbed “Achilles,” discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Qualcomm's Snapdragon Digital Signal Processor (DSP) chips, exposing over 40% of all smartphones globally to cyberattacks. If exploited successfully, the vulnerabilities allow threat actors to take control of...
Tanium, a unified endpoint security provider, has partnered with Google Cloud to collectively fight against advanced persistent threats (APTs) to the distributed business operations keeping in mind the ongoing and post COVID-19 era. This handshake brings together Tanium’s Threat...
Security researchers Alvaro Munoz of GitHub and Oleksandr Mirosh of Micro Focus Fortify discovered over 30 security vulnerabilities in 20 content management systems (CMS), including Microsoft SharePoint, Alfresco, and Atlassian Confluence. Munoz and Mirosh presented their findings at the...
