Security news from the week beginning 22 January 2024
Security News from the week beginning xxx
Snyk acquires Fugue to get into cloud security market
DevSecOps vendor Snyk has acquired cloud security and compliance vendor Fugue for an undisclosed amount. Snyk is to add Fugue’s Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools to its Developer Security Platform....
Website encryption leaves customers at risk
Databarracks has warned that websites are risking customer data by not updating the encryption that they use on their website. As worrying as this is, users have a bigger concern and...
SaltStack users warned – Patch by Friday or compromised by Monday
SaltStack has patched two critical vulnerabilities that were discovered by the Finnish security company, F-Secure. It warned the company of the vulnerabilities in mid-March. Each has been awarded a Common Vulnerability...
Cyber security or sex?
How important is cyber security to you? What would you give up to be safer in cyber space? Do you feel that sharing the password to your social media account is...
Cloud security offers significant benefits if you start right
At Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas, Enterprise Times talked with Sergio Caltagirone, Vice President, Threat Intelligence at Dragos and John Yeoh, Vice President of Research at the Cloud Security Alliance....
MoD sees 18% rise in incidents involving personal data loss
The MoD has published its annual report and accounts. It is a whopping 217 pages long and takes some reading to get through. One organisation that has already been through it,...
Is it a log file? No, it’s malware hiding in plain sight
Malware writers are always looking for new ways to conceal their code. Hiding it in another file that users would expect to see on their computer makes it hard to spot....
Palo Alto launches third generation of Cortex XDR targeting Cloud customers
Palo Alto has launched the third generation of its Cortex XDR solution. This release expands Cortex to the cloud and targets cloud and identity-based threats. According to Palo Alto, Cortex 3.0...
Confiant exposes scale of Zirconium malvertising
Cyber security vendor, Confiant, has exposed what it calls: "2017's largest Malvertising Operation." The details of its research has been published as a blog by Jerome Dangu, CTO, Confiant. It shows...