Security

Last Updated on 14 Dec. 2015, Total: 99 Blog Posts

  1. Microsoft senses an increasing trend of macro malware

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 8 Jan. 2015
    • Section: Security

    New threats emerging that include some form of social engineering to convince users to manually enable macros and allow potential malicious code to run... Read More

  2. More on the 19 year old bug

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 25 Nov. 2014
    • Section: Security

    Although APT3 is well known for employing zero-day exploits in their attacks, recent activity has demonstrated that they will also attack targets with known exploits or social engineering... Read More

  3. More security features for Amazon AWS

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 22 May 2014
    • Section: Security

    Amazon AWS adds support for encryption of EBS data volumes and the associated snapshots... Read More

  4. More wearable technology walking through the office door

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 12 Oct. 2015
    • Section: Security

    IT Pros are concerned about Wearable Technology connected to company networks... Read More

  5. Mozilla Thunderbird Vulnerability

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 28 Jan. 2014
    • Section: Security

    The vulnerability in Mozilla Thunderbird email application 17.0.6 can result in multiple attack vectors on the client end which may eventually result in complete compromise of the end user system... Read More

  6. Nearly 3 in 4 IT Professionals Report that SIEM Solutions Don’t Reduce Security Incidents

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 3 Nov. 2014
    • Section: Security

    Netwrix survey of 800 IT professionals finds that the majority of companies still don’t have complete visibility into what is going on across their IT infrastructures... Read More

  7. OWA Webmail Server Attack

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 6 Oct. 2015
    • Section: Security

    A New Persistent Attack Methodology Targeting Microsoft Outlook Web Application (OWA)... Read More

  8. Office 365 Multi-Factor Authentication

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 13 Feb. 2014
    • Section: Security

    Multi-factor authentication increases the security of user logins for cloud services above and beyond just a password... Read More

  9. Office malware creation kit revealed

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 3 Sept. 2015
    • Section: Security

    It seems that some cyber gangs are learning that less really can be more... Read More

  10. Online Privacy Guide - Will a VPN Protect Me?

    • by George Chetcuti
    • Published on 25 June 2015
    • Section: Security

    Guest post provided by IVPN, provider of high security VPN services... Read More