By ShannonPerry The recently discovered vulnerability in Internet Explorer raised quite an uproar with the media and techies in April. With the hole, hackers have accessed sensitive information of defense companies and financial institutions. Reacting to the vulnerability, the Department of Homeland...
By ShannonPerry We knew this day would come – when Windows XP, the twelve-year-old operating system for Windows, stops receiving technical support from Microsoft. While the transition does not mark the death of Windows XP necessarily, as you can still choose to use whatever operating system you wa...
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. New project shines light on VA mismanagement – ‘Jeff Miller, chairman of the House veterans affairs committee, launched the VA Accountability Watch, an extension of Veterans.House.Gov, to highlight VA’s “growing pattern of r...
By Marcus Williams More Cyber News we are tracking: Several organizations around the country have been collecting and selling PII, DARPA will no longer support CFT, VMware’s Horizon Mirage 4.0, and more Who’s keeping track of Who? After reading this article it made me reconsider how I sh...
By Marcus Williams Background Triumfant, Inc. is a privately held company with a focus on detecting and remediating cyber attacks. Triumfant has a ’Assume Nothing, Scan everything’ approach to cyber detection and prevention. This approach was developed in response to changes in the t...
By InfoSec Institute The number of annual security incidents caused by insider threats continues to increase. In The CERT Guide to Insider Threats, Capelli et al writes, “Insider threats are an intriguing and complex problem. Some assert that they are the most significant threat faced by organiz...
“Microsoft revealed this week that it has helped disrupt more than 500 different strains of malware in an attempt to slow the emerging threat of the Nitol botnet. In an operation codenamed b70, Microsoft discovered retailers in China selling computers with counterfeit versions of Windows loade...
“Security researchers have discovered a single piece of malware that is capable of spreading to four different platform environments, including Windows, Mac OSX, VMware virtual machines, and Windows Mobile devices.” Source: ‘Crisis’ malware targets VMware virtual machines | Security Privacy ...