‘Shadow IoT major threat to corporate networks’
Infoblox publishes a new study this week that points to a significant threat to corporate networks by the Shadow IoT. This consists of devices that are part of a company network, but of which this is not known. For the report What's Lurking in the Shadows, 2,650 IT professionals were interviewed in... Read more
Former Palo Alto worker prosecuted for insider trading
A former network administrator of cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks, as well as four of his friends, are being prosecuted for three years of insider trading.
The man allegedly has abused his access to crucial systems to acquire insider information, The New York Times reports. He passed th... Read more
‘VPN connections of Linux distributions vulnerable to hacking’
A new vulnerability has been discovered in Linux, Android, macOS and other Unix-based operating systems. Malicious parties could be able to hack VPN connections because of the vulnerability.
The research team 'The Breakpointing Bad', of the University of New Mexico, shared the findings. When a v... Read more
Palo Alto Networks launches version 2 of Cortex XDR
Palo Alto Networks has launched the second version of its detection and response platform, Cortex XDR. This version has been extended towards data sources from third parties.
Cortex XDR is a detection and response app that natively integrates into network, endpoint and cloud data to prevent adva... Read more
Expert talks
Ignore DNS at your peril
Businesses have to pay close attention to their web traffic, especially when migrating business applications to the cloud. Obviously, web traffic is vital to any organization. And, the perception of internal and external users regarding the security and performance of business applications or e-com... Read more
Bitdefender NTSA now also detects attacks using DNS services
Bitdefender's Network Traffic Security Analytics (NTSA) solution can now also recognize attacks that use DNS and FTP services. This is possible because of the fact that the NTSA solution now includes machine learning algorithms for this purpose.
Bitdefender NTSA
is a solution that allows compani... Read more
Netgear joins OSSA alliance for better (video) security
Netgear has joined the Open Security and Safety Alliance, a group of cooperating companies that includes suppliers of camera and video management solutions. This collaboration should lead to innovation in the field of video surveillance and physical security applications in general.
According to... Read more
Siemens launches industrial hosting platform for cyber security
Siemens has released a new version of the Ruggedcom APE (Application Processing Engine). Ruggedcom APE is an industrial hosting platform designed to use third-party software applications in difficult and mission-critical environments. The platform protects networks from cyber attacks.
The new Rugged... Read more
Fortinet: shipping industry should hurry with improving cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is a basic necessity for every business sector
today. This also applies to the maritime sector. Not only for commercial cargo
shipping, but also for so-called 'superyachts'. Yet, according to Fortinet, the
state of cybersecurity within this sector is quite worrying. New policy
measure... Read more
New Cloudflare service Magic Transit promises a smarter and better network
Cloudflare has launched the new product Magic Transit, which aims to provide companies with a 'smarter, better, stronger and cheaper' network. It protects services from DDoS attacks and increases speeds.
The new service, Magic Transit, supports all IP protocols and standards, writes The Next Web. Th... Read more