34 infosec experts discuss how to prevent the most common social engineering attacks.

We are disclosing a vulnerability identified in NETSHIELD Corporation Nano 25. The engineers at NETSHIELD Corporation were prompt in their response when notified of the flaw and have provided a patch for the cyber security issue.NETSHIELD Corporation has released a patch for the affected Nano 25 version 10.2.18.Fortra VM will not include an explicit check for this vulnerability due to the...

Microsoft Defender Zero-Day Remote Code Execution (RCE) VulnerabilityOn Tuesday, January 12th, Microsoft released a patch for an RCE vulnerability present within their antivirus solutions, Windows Defender, System Center Endpoint Protection, and Security Essentials. his vulnerability is being tracked as CVE-2021-1647. Although an exploit has not been publicly released, this vulnerability is...

Win at Remediation with Quality over Quantity VM plan Managing Vulnerabilities Effectively Requires a Quality Over Quantity MindsetBusiness networks will always play host to a number of vulnerabilities. Factor in the current proliferation of endpoints and growing network complexity and you have a list of vulnerabilities that is growing exponentially. The number of reported vulnerabilities has...

Vulnerability management and threat assessment solutions provide the first line of defense in protecting assets across an organization, yet today’s widely deployed solutions are outdated in terms of providing an accurate real-time assessment of today’s complex hybrid-cloud environments. In addition, the majority of legacy solutions fail to prioritize the remediation of risky assets or even assets...

Zyxel Hardcoded Backdoor Account VulnerabilityOn December 23rd, 2020, the Dutch security firm Eye disclosed a hardcoded backdoor account within the firmware 4.60 on Zyxel Firewalls and AP Controllers. The credentials for this account cannot be changed or altered unless the firmware is patched. These hardcoded credentials provide access to both SSH and web admin interfaces, where additional...

Businesses of all sizes have some form of data that a threat actor could exploit. It is even possible for a cyber-criminal to invade a company's available network with the sole purpose of causing web security testing issues. Whether it involves patient medical histories, credit card data, available consumer transaction histories, or trade secrets, if a company uses technology to transmit or store...

As a merchant, you are likely familiar with the strict Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements set by the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC). Failure to adhere to PCI compliance standards creates vulnerabilities within your business’s network that could result in a loss of sensitive credit cardholder data from consumers and malicious intrusion into your business...

Do you own a business that stores, processes, or transmits sensitive data such as credit card information online? If so, you must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), a set of 12 main regulations to protect customer data. The PCI Security Standards Council compiled the PCI DSS. The council’s members consist of major card companies, including MasterCard, Visa,...

Advisory Solarwinds Orion Vulnerabilities Security Advisory: SolarWinds OrionAs you have likely seen in news reports over the last weeks, a series of significant security incidents occurred in earlier this month related to malicious cyber actors exploiting VMware® Access and VMware Identity Manager products and a security breach at FireEye uncovering injected malware within SolarWinds network...

Looking to secure your AWS environment? We've gathered 50 security tips to help your organization manage credentials, protect data, mitigate abuse, and more.

Businesses are becoming increasingly vulnerable to digital threats and cyber attacks. While you might be aware of the need for security services, developing your in-house solution is often costly, time-consuming, and potentially ineffective against evolving threats.One solution is Security as a Service (SECaaS), which follows the software as a service model. In this type of security management, an...

SolarWinds Orion Supply Chain (SUNBURST) Backdoor VulnerabilitySolarWinds Orion Supply Chain (SUNBURST) BackdoorOn December 13th, the security firm FireEye released the details of a sophisticated manual supply chain attack that affects SolarWinds Orion Platform versions 2019.4 HF 5, 2020.2 (with no hotfix installed) or 2020.2 HF 1. The threat actors involved were able to incorporate a malicious ...