Leading IT companies will spend more even with a pandemic recession
The recession looms on the horizon, but that will not stop IT leaders from increasing their budgets next year, according to a new report from the analyst firm CCS Insight. From a poll involving more than 730 senior IT executives, the report concluded that about 2 out of 3 of the respondents expect ...
Konica Minolta acquires Depth Security
Konica Minolta's U.S. operation just purchased a cybersecurity firm in Kansas City. The Japanese company purchased Depth Security for an undisclosed amount.
Rick Taylor, the CEO of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A, said that their continued investments in security offerings appear to be a...
Businesses being forced to deploy vulnerable applications
According to new research, many businesses are being forced to deploy apps with vulnerabilities because of time and economic pressure. The deployments have created many opportunities for cybercriminals to thrive.
Synopsys, a silicon design firm, did the survey which found that cybersecurity and ...
Microsoft Office 365 is growing and hackers are aware
Researchers from the FireEye Mandiant cybersecurity platform have reported that the most sophisticated hacking operations are now refocusing on attacking Microsoft Office 365.
Office 365 provides endpoint and cloud services, including Office, Outlook, SharePoint, Exchange, Teams, and OneDrive, t...
Products from big tech companies are vulnerable to cyberattack
RiskIQ security firm has identified critical vulnerabilities in many remote access and perimeter devices. Cybercriminals are already taking advantage of them. A recent investigation revealed that Microsoft, IBM, Citrix, and Cisco products were vulnerable.
The surge of employees working remotely ...
Studies show human errors are the biggest threat to cloud security
According to two recent studies by security providers, the single greatest security threat cloud users face is caused by configuration errors. The second most common type of breach is caused by user error. The study by Verizon Corp.’s 2020 Data Breach Report, shows that misconfigurations are the ...
Box Shield gets a powerful new automated classification feature
Box recently rolled out a new feature that automatically classifies files and adds labels as you scan them into Box. The function is integrated with Box Shield, the popular content security product.
Through the machine learning-driven feature, organizations will be able to meet the required comp...
Tanium now offers SaaS-version of Tanium-as-a-service
Security specialist Tanium introduces the SaaS service Tanium-as-a-Service (TaaS) to deliver high-quality security to enterprise environments with a large number of connected endpoints. The cloud-based service does not require any additional infrastructure.
Tanium gives companies with its unifie...
Google Cloud introduces Confidential VMs for enhanced security
Google Cloud has introduced two security solutions, Confidential VMs and Assured Workloads for Government. These solutions aim to improve the protection of sensitive data, especially from public organisations, within (public) cloud environments.
According to Google Cloud, the new solutions are p...
Oracle releases extremely large security update
Oracle released an extremely large security update today in a Critical Patch Update for many of its products and services. The company issued a total of 433 patches.
With the announced Critical Patch Update, Oracle releases a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. In this u...
Lucifer malware makes use of old vulnerabilities for attacks
A new cybercriminal operation has found moderate success according to a statement released by Palo Alto Networks. The aim of the attack is to create a botnet for DoS attacks; however, it may cover other attacks as well.
The malware is being called Satan DDoS by developers, the virus has been n...
Microsoft expands Office 365 security with Safe Documents
Users of the Office 365 E5 license will have immediate access to a new security feature called Microsoft Safe Documents. The tech giant announced this on its website.
Earlier this year, Safe Documents already appeared in a closed preview by Microsoft, which made it clear that the feature was an ...