Category: Security

Security is more important than ever. Cybersecurity has been a problem from the start of IT and it will be till the end. It all started with endpoint and network security, but today, we are also facing with cloudsecurity and managing employees to incorporate good security practices.

All these new technologies that help us innovate also helps cybercriminals and state sponsored hackers to get new tools they can use to get access to our systems, and in a worst case scenario, access to our most valuable data and business secrets. Also, with new legislation in place like GDPR, you need to make sure everything is secure, otherwise you just don’t lose your reputation, but you can also be fined by the government. Protecting IT-environments is more important than ever.

Endpoint Security

Your first line of defense is usually endpoint protection. The devices your employees work with need to be protected against ransomware and other malware which can bring lots and lots of trouble. This nowadays the most basic form of protection and many of the bigger vendors and suites can help you achieve this.

Network security

Network security is a bit more advanced, where you can manage which traffic goes across your network. You can also connect different networks together with e.g. SD-WAN. So, you can run protection software and share data between multiple locations. The trend we see in network protection on the datacenter side is to lock down the traffic by only allowing known, benevolent traffic sources. Regarding office networking, we see new initiatives like ZScaler coming up, where you tunnel all your staff over the network of ZScaler so they can analyse the traffic and block patterns that they marked as malicious. Especially for companies with employees that travel a lot, this is a smart solution.

Cloud security

Many thought that bringing workloads to the cloud would reduce their responsibility of doing security. It is now clear that this is not the case. Most cloud vendors practice the “shared responsibility” approach. This means that big hyperscalers can offer a first line of defense against well known threats and port scanners. For the more sophisticated attacks that are directly pointed at your servers, you need to have your protection in place.

Citrix launches security intrusion detection tool

Citrix launches security intrusion detection tool

Citrix and FireEye have announced that they are launching a new tool to combat the security error that has caused quite a few problems in recent weeks. The tool is available for free in the GitHub repositories of both Citrix and FireEye, and is designed to recognise if a user's system has been hack... Read more

date4 years ago
Oracle taps customers on the fingers because of negligence updates

Oracle taps customers on the fingers because of negligence updates

Oracle recently released its quarterly set of patches to address vulnerabilities within its products. With the patches came a corresponding message, in which customers were urged, with some powerful words, to actually install the patches when they are available. The reason for the reprimand to O... Read more

date4 years ago
Microsoft will fix leak in Internet Explorer on February 11th

Microsoft will fix leak in Internet Explorer on February 11th

A critical security vulnerability has been found in Internet Explorer (IE). By exploiting this leak, criminals can remotely execute code on the system and even access it. The leak is already being abused, but a patch is still pending. The security leak is located in the scripting engine of Inter... Read more

date4 years ago
Citrix makes patches available for critical leaks

Citrix makes patches available for critical leaks

This morning, Citrix released the first patches for Citrix Application Delivery Controller (Citrix ADC) and Citrix Gateway, formerly known as NetScaler Gateway. These are patches for versions 11.1 and 12.0. More patches for other versions will follow later this week. The problem with the Citrix ... Read more

date4 years ago
Oracle update covers large amount of security flaws

Oracle update covers large amount of security flaws

Oracle has rolled out a large number of security updates across its range of products. A total of 334 security issues were addressed by the updates. The updates are spread across 93 products in the company's portfolio. For example, there are updates for Database Server, which addresses 12 securi... Read more

date4 years ago
Microsoft discovers malicious npm package

Microsoft discovers malicious npm package

Microsoft has discovered a malicious npm package that steals data from Unix systems. The npm (Node Package Manager) security team for JavaScript has taken the malicious package off the air. The malicious package is called 1337qq-js and was uploaded to the npm repository on December 30th. The pac... Read more

date4 years ago
Thousands of British passports exposed through AWS database

Thousands of British passports exposed through AWS database

An unsecured Amazon Web Services database has exposed thousands of British passports, visible in scans. In addition, tax documents and job applications were also visible. It's not yet clear who left the database exposed. Two security researchers, Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, discovered the flaw whi... Read more

date4 years ago
Microsoft patches large vulnerability in Windows 10

Microsoft patches large vulnerability in Windows 10

Microsoft has fixed a large vulnerability in Windows. The vulnerability was discovered by the American National Security Agency (NSA). The problem was officially called CVE-2020-0601. It affected Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, 2019 and Server version 1803. The error was described as a crypto l... Read more

date4 years ago
Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway waiting for patch after December leak

Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway waiting for patch after December leak

In December, a major security breach came to light in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (Citrix ADC) and Citrix Gateway, formerly known as NetScaler Gateway. We are still waiting for a patch, while researchers are now warning that cyber criminals are actively looking for vulnerable Citrix ... Read more

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