Simplicity is the Key to Enterprise Cybersecurity

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the VMware Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. In today’s digital environment, companies are...

68% of Overwhelmed IT Managers Say They Can't Keep Up with Cyberattacks

IT managers feel overwhelmed by the volume of cyberattack attempts, with most of them admitting that successful hacks of their company networks are becoming the norm. That’s according to a research report The Impossible Puzzle of Cybersecurity, released Friday. In a survey of 3,100 IT managers...

New Google Security Dashboard Manages Device Activity

Google this week made available to Google Apps users a dashboard that displays recent account activity for each of a user’s devices, and allows them to take action if anything suspicious is afoot. Eran Feigenbaum, Google for Work director of security, said the new Devices and Activity dashboard...

Adobe Patches Sandbox Escape Vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat

Adobe today released a patch for two vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild that enabled attackers to pull off the first confirmed sandbox escape against Adobe Reader. The vulnerabilities CVE-2013-0640 and CVE-2013-0641 could cause a crash and allow an attacker to remotely run malware on a...

IT staffs pressured to relax Web security

From SearchSecurity.com Rob Westervelt IT managers are under pressure from the top executives in their organizations to relax their policies on Web security in order to make users more productive. A new survey of more than 1,000 IT managers found that sales and marketing personnel also are leanin...

S21SEC-038-en.txt

S21Sec Advisory - Title: Alcatel Omnivista 4760 Cross-Site Scripting ID: S21SEC-038-en Severity: Medium - History: 10.Jun.2007 Vulnerability discovered 20.Jun.2007 Vendor contacted 19.Oct.2007 Advisory released Authors: Juan de la Fuente Costa [email protected] Pablo Seijo Cajaraville...