The week in security: Patch the night away
Worried about insider threats? You should be, reports and experts all agree
David Braue | 21 Oct | Read more
Worried about insider threats? You should be, reports and experts all agree
David Braue | 21 Oct | Read more
Despite the masses of highly sensitive data that healthcare companies manage, new analysis has warned that chronically poor endpoint security, weak patching practices and high exposure to social engineering make the industry one of the worst-performing sectors when it comes to protecting data.
David Braue | 15 Feb | Read more
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday has its first security update for the HoloLens headset.
Attackers are targeting Office users with a flaw that Microsoft hasn’t patched yet. But it will patch it tomorrow, according to the researcher who first reported the bug to Microsoft.
Within two days of WordPress revealing a now patched flaw, attackers began searching for sites that hadn't updated.
WordPress has fixed a bug in the email tool that ships with its core distribution.
The recent massive hack of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca – and the publication of its trove of confidential information in a publicly-searchable format that has cast suspicions on everyone from David Cameron to Emma Watson to cybercriminals themselves – is the kind of “extinction-level event” that businesses should better prepare for when their viability is entirely based on trust, one security consultant has warned.
David Braue | 12 May | Read more