Endpoints are the new perimeter
Today’s threat landscape is unrecognisable from the one that we knew five years ago. Cybercriminals are no longer pimply teenagers in basements, but sophisticated, well equipped and well-funded thieves. Organised crime and nation states play a role too, funding the...
Kaspersky plans enterprise market expansion
On 15 April 2014, Kaspersky Lab revealed its vision of enterprise security at the company’s annual CyberSecurity Summit in San Francisco, USA. The event focused on how enterprise IT security realities affected businesses worldwide and featured commentary and panel...
McAfee offers free Heartbleed Checker tool
McAfee, part of Intel Security, has released a free tool to help consumers easily gauge their susceptibility to the potentially dangerous effects of the Heartbleed bug, a vulnerability in OpenSSL that has placed millions of Internet users’ personal information at...
Sophos refreshes appliances with Intel
Sophos has announced a refresh of its network Security Gateway hardware with the availability of the new Sophos SG Series appliances. These high-performance hardware appliances - based on the 4th generation Intel Core processors – deliver up to four times the speed of...
Kaspersky tops AV-TEST trial
Kaspersky Lab’s flagship product for home users Kaspersky Internet Security blocked every threat in the Bi-Monthly Certification January-February 2014 testing conducted by AV-Test, an independent German research centre. The solution claimed first place, achieving a...
Oracle announces Mobile Authenticator
Oracle has introduced Oracle Mobile Authenticator, a token-based authentication application that enables organisations to cost-effectively provide strong authentication and prevent unauthorised access to vital company and customer data. Removing the cost and...
End of XP support a threat to enterprises
40% of all enterprises still on Windows XP posing serious risk of data loss now April 8 deadline has passed. McAfee urges business to execute their contingency measures. End of support for Windows XP which was scheduled for April 8 has exposed many businesses to...
Kaspersky patents malware detection method
Kaspersky Lab has obtained a patent for a method of detecting malware that has been masked by rootkits – special programmes capable of altering the outcomes of system functions. Patent no. 8677492 issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office describes the operation of...
Complex IT security outpaces in-house skills
The ever-growing complexity of IT security technologies will continue to push more companies to outsource IT security to managed service providers. The average company just doesn’t have the skills in-house to manage and maintain increasingly-sophisticated security...
E-mail can be a weak link in security
E-mail has just celebrated its 42nd to convey messages to different users of the same computer. Today, what was described as a “nice hack” in the 1970s has become the most widely used application on the Internet - over 2,2-billion people use e-mail every single day....
Symantec: cybercrime growing in Middle East
Symantec has observed the growth of indigenous groups of attackers in the Middle East, centred on a simple piece of malware known as njRAT. While njRAT is similar in capability to many other remote access tools (RATs), what is interesting about this malware is that it...
ICT security can help build businesses
The perception that IT and cyber security stands in the way of innovation is incorrect. The reality is that if managed correctly with the assistance of an experienced service provider, ICT security can be a business enabler and serve as the conduit to a more mobile,...