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40% of people have never used dating apps out of fear of scammers

Today Kaspersky announced survey results finding that dating app scams pose a serious barrier to the use of such services.... Read More...

Posted Monday, August 02, 2021 2:26 PM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Survey, Security

Fortanix Delivers Comprehensive Data Security as a Service

Fortanix Inc., the data-first multicloud security company, announced the availability of its comprehensive Data Security Manager (DSM) solution as a cloud-delivered service.... Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 29, 2021 9:34 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Cloud, Security

Zerto Announces General Availability of Zerto 9 to Deliver Instant Ransomware Recovery

Zerto, an industry leader in cloud data management and protection, has announced the general availability of Zerto 9, significantly advancing its capabilities in the fight against ransomware.... Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 29, 2021 9:29 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Security

Research: More than 3/4 of Organizations Impacted by IT Vulnerabilities in the Past Year

Vulcan Cyber announced the latest results of its ongoing research into cyber risk remediation initiatives and risk impact on business operations.... Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 29, 2021 9:21 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Survey, Security

GhostEmperor APT targets high-profile victims using unknown rootkit

Today Kaspersky announced its discovery of a unique, long-running operation, called GhostEmperor.... Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 29, 2021 8:32 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Security

SonicWall: Record 304.7 Million Ransomware Attacks Eclipse 2020 Global Total in Just 6 Months

In the first half of 2021, ransomware attacks skyrocketed, eclipsing the entire volume for 2020 in only six months, according to the mid-year update to the 2021 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report published today.... Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 29, 2021 8:08 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Survey, Security

Salt Security "State of API Security" Report Finds API Attack Traffic has Grown at Triple the Rate of Overall API Traffic

Salt Security released the Salt Labs State of API Security Report, Q3 2021.... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:59 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Survey, Security

New Infosec Skills Cyber Range Helps Cyber Pros Upskill, Reskill Hands-On

Infosec Institute announced the release of the next generation of the Infosec Skills cyber range, a scalable training platform where cyber professionals can upskill and reskill inside the operating environments they encounter on the job.... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:54 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Security, Training and Tips

Google Play Protect detects only 31% of Android stalkerware

According to findings presented by the Atlas VPN research team, Android's internal Google Play Protect service detects only 31% of stalkerware attacks.... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2021 9:30 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: mobile, Security

Kaspersky finds less DDoS attacks and small geographic shifts in Q2 2021

In the second quarter of 2021, Kaspersky found the total number of DDoS attacks decreased by 38.8% compared to Q2 2020, and by 6.5% in comparison to the previous quarter in 2021.... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2021 9:26 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Security

Cybersecurity Skills Crisis Continues for Fifth Year, Perpetuated by Lack of Business Investment

The cybersecurity skills crisis continues on a downward, multi-year trend of bad to worse and has impacted more than half (57%) of organizations.... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2021 9:21 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Survey, Security

Threat Stack Announces Support for Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate

Threat Stack announced it has expanded its AWS Fargate Security Monitoring to include Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2021 9:18 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Security

Annual SolarWinds Study Reveals Opportunities for Business and IT Collaboration in Managing Enterprise Risk Driven by Internal and External Security Threats

SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT management software, released the findings of its eighth annual IT Trends Report.... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2021 9:09 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Survey, Security

Bitdefender Advances Cloud Workload Security for Containers and Linux Environments

Bitdefender announced GravityZone Security for Containers, expanding its cloud workload security (CWS) offering with run-time support for containers and Linux kernel independence.... Read More...

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2021 9:00 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Security, Containers

Digital Guardian Delivers Enterprise Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft Teams

Digital Guardian announced the availability of its endpoint DLP visibility and security controls for Microsoft Teams.... Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 27, 2021 11:18 AM by David Marshall | 0 Comments
Filed under: Security