Vulnerability News

New Malware Can Cause Issues After Deletion

Targeting financial institutions, victims can serve as drones even after cleaning. An Article Review. Our friend Wes Pollard at Home Bank submitted this new malware alert to us and because it targets banking institutions specifically we thought we’d share it with you...

The Advantages of Being Small

Questionable social media campaign passed through layers of management unquestioned An article review. Sometimes it can seem like being one of the big guys makes security easy–finding a second set of eyes to look at a problem is never a problem, and of course the gen...

Ten Must-Reads For Information Security Awareness

These titles should be on every professional’s list. An article review. If there’s one thing you can take away from the most recent installment of our annual T7 article, it’s that the threats we face when securing IT assets are a diverse and constantly e...

New Vulnerabilities Found and Patched in LastPass

An article review. Attackers could have used the exploits to compromise users’ password vaults and execute code on affected machines Last week security researchers independently reported two major flaws in LastPass, a popular password management application with user...

Windows 10 Exploit Could Let Malware In

An article review. The User Account Control bug allowed for malicious code to run with the highest privileges While Windows 10 promises to be the most secure version of the operating system yet, it’s not entirely free from bugs as security researchers pointed out re...

New Top Level Domains Could Expose Companies To Risk

An article review. Opportunistic hackers could register new TLDs hoping to prey on misdirected internal traffic   The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) recently issued a statement for organizations who use top level domain names to route internal traffic...

Malware Uses Windows Service To Reinstall Itself

An article review. Even after removal, a hijhacked service can reinfect machines targeted with a new technique News of a new malware technique comes from our friend Wes Pollard at Home Bank, who sent us an article about this interesting new threat. Researchers at SecureWo...

Verizon Releases 2015 Data Breach Investigation Report

An article review. Great insights to help you better manage risk Each year the security folks at Verizon partner up with companies around the world to collect, analyze and report on data breaches. This year, their report is 70 pages full of explanations, graphs, charts an...

Windows Susceptible to FREAK Attack After All

An article review. Microsoft admits that Internet Explorer is vulnerable to HTTPS hack Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that any Windows computer running any version of Internet Explorer is vulnerable to a FREAK attack. Now the FREAK vulnerability has been around f...

Keep Your BYOD Policy Updated

An article review. New Device automates iOS Pin Hacking Many companies have Bring Your Own Device policies in place, where employees are allowed to bring their own PCs or mobile devices into the workplace or have business utilities, like email, setup on their personal dev...