New threats subverting digital signature validation

McAfee Labs has released the McAfee Labs Threats Report: Third Quarter 2013, which found new efforts to circumvent digital signature app validation on both PCs and Android-based devices. The McAfee Labs team identified a new family of mobile malware that allows an attacker to bypass the digital signature validation of apps on Android devices, which contributed to a 30 percent increase in Android-based malware. At the same time, traditional malware signed with digital signatures grew by 50...

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Visibility into Cloud applications, user risk, and attacker methodologies

Rapid7 has announced the general availability of its cloud application and user risk management solution, Rapid7 UserInsight, as well as several enhancements to its information-driven security analytics portfolio. With these innovations, Rapid7 is the first and only security analytics provider to offer visibility into user behavior across on-premise and cloud networks, to integrate phishing exposure information into user risk assessment, and to deliver fully closed-loop vulnerability validation...

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CloudSigma offers infrastructure-level firewalls

CloudSigma has announced the general availability of advanced network policy management across all its cloud locations. With this new feature, customers can create, manage and apply enterprise-grade networking policies in relation to their cloud infrastructure in a fully integrated way. By removing complexity and stressing usability, CloudSigma’s new networking policy features enable customers to enhance their security, while also saving time.

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Temporary workers still require adequate data protection training, warns ICO

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is warning employers about the importance of making sure temporary staff – who regularly handle personal information - receive adequate data protection training.

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China rates itself as world’s #1

EMC® Corporation has announced results of an independent survey revealing fresh insights about IT strategies and infrastructures deployed within companies and governments throughout the world. Most notably, respondents cite a startling lack of senior executive confidence that permeates organizations globally, specifically concerning readiness around the critical IT requirements of continuous availability; advanced security; and integrated backup and recovery. Reduced investment in these...

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Arctic Wolf partners with leading Formula 1 team to enhance world-class security operations at the...
83% of respondents believe their organization is at risk, while 64% anticipate the problem...
3rd Annual Global Password Security Report shows widespread password reuse, despite increased...
Thycotic, provider of privileged access management (PAM) solutions to more than 10,000...
Systems left exposed to the threat of compromised credentials, potentially resulting in...
90% adopting or considering SASE, 74% reallocated funds to cybersecurity among multiple indicators...
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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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