Announcing: new British Standard for cyber risk and resilience

Technology is an integral part of the fabric of everyday life. There is almost no organization that does not rely on digital services in some way in order to survive. The opportunity that technology provides also brings with it more vulnerabilities and threats as organizations and data become mor...

Alleged Mastermind Behind Carbanak Crime Gang Arrested

The suspected mastermind behind the Carbanak criminal gang, which is notorious for stealing as much as $1 billion from more than 100 financial institutions in a string of attacks, has been apprehended, according to the Spanish National Police. According to the European Union Agency for Law...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Stealing Food from Each Other

An interesting hunting strategy: Off of northern Spain, giant squid often feed on schools of fish called blue whiting. The schools swim 400 meters or less below the surface, while the squid prefer to hang out around a mile deep. The squid must ascend to hunt, probably seizing fish from below with...

Essays from 7 Experts on Moving to a Cloud-Based Endpoint Security Platform

Carbon Black recently published a series of essays about the experiences of experts in the field on information security as they moved their endpoint security program to the cloud; this is one of those essays. To read the full series check out 7 Experts on Moving to a Cloud-Based Endpoint Securit...

Research to Power Your Cybersecurity Strategy

Tap into the leading cyber threat research team that enabled the prevention of 48 billion exploits in 2018 alone...

Honeypot strategy is no longer effectively preventing spam account signup

panel:title=Fix From 3.9.5 onwards we have turned off the honeypot in favour of using captcha anyone affected by this issue just needs to switch the CAPTCHA on...

Synaptics Keyboard Driver Unprotected Debug Mode - Lenovo Support US

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Synaptics Keyboard Driver Unprotected Debug Mode - us

Synaptics Keyboard Driver Unprotected Debug Mode Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-18507 Potential Impact: Loss of confidentiality local to system Severity: Medium Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-17556 Summary Description: A researcher discovered a vulnerability in Synaptics...

NVIDIA GPU display driver contains multiple vulnerabilities in the kernel mode layer handler - Lenovo Support US

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NVIDIA GPU Display driver contains multiple vulnerabilities in the kernel mode layer handler - us

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-14587 Potential Impact: Denial of service or privilege escalation Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-Wide CVE Identifiers: CVE-2017-0341, CVE-2017-0342, CVE-2017-0343, CVE-2017-0344, CVE-2017-0345, CVE-2017-0346, CVE-2017-0347, CVE-2017-0348, CVE-2017-0349,...

International Women’s Day: Women in tech share their stories

From the metoo movement to Oprah's Time's Up speech to the women's marches on cities throughout the world—it's been a banner year for women's rights. And on this International Women's Day, we wanted to do more than pay lip service to the changes in feminist dialogue. After all, tech is an industr...

This Week in Security News: Trends and Tea Parties

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the U.S. official in charge of election security was replaced, Trend Micro hosted a tea party in rural Taiwan, and a new cryptocurrency mino...

Essays from 7 Experts on Moving to a Cloud-Based Endpoint Security Platform

Carbon Black recently published a series of essays about the experiences of experts in the field on information security as they moved their endpoint security program to the cloud; this is one of those essays. To read the full series check out 7 Experts on Moving to a Cloud-Based Endpoint Securit...

Will Subscribers Pay for Security?

Carriers see security as a vital component of their five-year strategies and expect to increase spending on security in 2018 according to the Telecoms.com Annual Industry Survey 2017. Is security a good business opportunity for Carriers? Turns out investment in security has a good payback based o...

Enterprise Networking Operating System (ENOS) Authentication Bypass in Lenovo and IBM RackSwitch and BladeCenter Products - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-16095 Potential Impact: An attacker could gain access to the switch management interface, permitting settings changes that could result in exposing traffic passing through the switch, subtle malfunctions in the attached infrastructure, and partial or complete denial ...

Enterprise Networking Operating System (ENOS) Authentication Bypass in Lenovo and IBM RackSwitch and BladeCenter Products - Lenovo Support US

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On the Security of Walls

Interesting history of the security of walls: Dún Aonghasa presents early evidence of the same principles of redundant security measures at work in 13th century castles, 17th century star-shaped artillery fortifications, and even "defense in depth" security architecture promoted today by the...

spring-ldap: Authentication with userSearch and STARTTLS allows authentication with arbitrary password

A vulnerability was found in spring-ldap that allows an attacker to authenticate with an arbitrary password. When spring-ldap connected to some LDAP servers, when no additional attributes are bound, when using LDAP BindAuthenticator with...

Micheal McCollough Recognized as 2018 CRN® Channel Chief

This week, Micheal McCollough, Vice President, Global Channels, of Akamai was recognized and named as 2018 Channel Chief by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company. The executives on this annual list represent top leaders in the IT channel who excel at driving growth and revenue in their organizatio...

Developing an effective cyber strategy

The word strategy has its origins in the Roman Empire and was used to describe the leading of troops in battle. From a military perspective, strategy is a top-level plan designed to achieve one or more high-order goals. A clear strategy is especially important in times of uncertainty as it provid...