Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube have become essential channels for communication, marketing, and customer engagement. At the same time, cybercriminals have adapted quickly, using these platforms to reach large audiences, impersonate trusted brands, and execute scams at scale.The risks are changing all...

Security alerts never stop; they flood in, one after another. AI runs quietly in the background, sorting through a plethora of data, making snap decisions, and raising red flags when it finds anomalies. Unfortunately, somewhere else, bad actors are running similar algorithms, monitoring, probing, and learning. Efficiency (speed and scale) isn’t the danger, nor is the way security teams use these...

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s January 2025 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-1139 as soon as coverage is completed.In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEsCVE-2025-21333The first of three Hyper-V vulnerabilities this month is a heap-based buffer overflow that leads to privilege escalation to SYSTEM. Microsoft has reported this...

Today, we get four vulnerabilities that have seen active exploitation, one of which has also been publicly disclosed.

The three CVSS 9.8 vulnerabilities included in this month’s patch drop are likely to be the first thing that catches anyone’s attention this month. All three are remote, unauthenticated code execution, the very type of vulnerability where we previously would have used the word, “wormable.”

As CISO for Fortra, Chris Reffkin spends a great deal of time thinking about security and what the industry can do to get more efficient and effective with the right focus.

Over the past year, the chief marketing officer at Fortra has led the company’s effort to build upon its HelpSystems roots and redefine its role as a cybersecurity beacon for threat-weary security professionals. Learn about the monumental effort required to update the brand and why there’s a groundswell of excitement about what it means for the future.

Terranova Security provides security awareness training that helps organizations build and grow security-aware cultures worldwide. This end goal is accomplished by constructing training programs that leverage our industry-leading course content, which is also supported by real-world phishing simulations.

So much time, effort, and resources are spent defending the perimeter-less network from outside attacks that a key risk factor is often overlooked: the insider threat.

The unrivaled security experts add their white-glove, managed detection and response approach to a robust suite of solutions. Onkar Birk explains why this is a very good thing.

Learn how financial services CISOs can maintain cybersecurity resilience in a complex, highly regulated environment with sophisticated threats.

Matt Bresnan shares the keys to developing successful products and the top change he’d like to see in the cybersecurity industry.  

In this guest blog, Dr Ed Amoroso, CEO, Tag Cyber, provides a high-level overview of the Fortra cybersecurity portfolio value proposition based on a mapping of its component solution offerings to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) phases.

When a cybersecurity strategy isn't quite enough, cyber insurance may be the next best step to fight against cybercrime. Here's why every organization needs it.

Need a new cybersecurity joke to start off your next team happy hour or a fresh funny graphic for an upcoming presentation? Check out the latest cybersecurity jokes, puns, and one-liners of 2020.