macrovector – Fotolia The disclosure of 33 TCP/IP stack flaws affecting smart devices manufactured by over 150 different tech companies has once again thrown the spotlight on lax attitudes to IoT security at the development Read more…
Gina Sanders – stock.adobe.com VMware users should take immediate action to patch a serious vulnerability – assigned CVE-2020-4006 – affecting multiple products, which is being actively exploited by Russian state-backed malicious actors targeting critical systems. Read more…
MR – stock.adobe.com Android mobile application developers, including those working on some of the world’s most prominent dating apps, have been rushing to apply a delayed patch to a critical flaw in the Google Play Read more…
In this week’s Computer Weekly, Windows is still the most-used operating system in enterprises – we look at where Microsoft aims to take it next. We examine some of the key questions for CIOs for Read more…
marcyano79 – Fotolia HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) referred itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on 11 separate occasions between April 2019 and April 2020 over data security incidents. These included a fraudulent attack Read more…
Maksim Kabakou – Fotolia Security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) tools often feature in security operations centres (SOCs). SIEM is well established, whereas SOAR is a more recent Read more…
denisismagilov – Fotolia The world economy is now losing more than $1tn (approximately £740bn) to cyber crime every year, an increase of more than 50% on figures reported in 2018, and with two-thirds of organisations Read more…
So I’ve gotten used to using my Identity Nameidentitfier as the main way to identify a user between networks and users, however, my boss told me some days ago he mostly uses the Nameidentifier as Read more…
denisismagilov – stock.adobe.com Nominet, the UK’s domain name registrar, suspended a total of 22,158 .uk internet domains for criminal activity in the 12 months from 1 November 2019 to 31 October 2020, down almost 7,000 Read more…
Maksim Kabakou – Fotolia The terms SIEM (system information and event management) and SOAR (security orchestration, automation and response) are often used interchangeably. However, they are distinctly different applications and, far from being mutually exclusive, Read more…