March 28, 2017 FBI Warns Healthcare Providers of Risk of Using Anonymous FTP Servers Healthcare organizations could be placing the protected health information of patients at risk by using anonymous FTP servers, according to a recent alert issued by ... Read more
March 24, 2017 US-Certs Says SSL Inspection Tools May Actually Weaken Cybersecurity SSL inspection tools are commonly used by healthcare providers to improve security; however, according to a recent warning issued by US-CERT, SSL inspection tools may ... Read more
March 24, 2017 Cybersecurity Tips for Healthcare Providers Offered by WEDI The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has published a white paper offering cybersecurity tips for healthcare providers to help them ensure the sensitive protected ... Read more
March 23, 2017 FittedCloud Enhances its EC2 and EBS Optimization Solutions FittedCloud has announced its cloud cost optimization solution for AWS has benefitted from an upgrade with new machine-learning algorithms added to the solution, enhanced reports, ... Read more
March 22, 2017 GFI Software Launches OneConnect Advanced Email Protection, Continuity, and Archiving Solution GFI Software has launched two new software systems to give sysadmins much better protection from sophisticated cyberattacks. The past 12 months has seen an increase ... Read more
March 21, 2017 Medical Records of 26 Million Healthcare Patients at Risk of Compromise An IT system used by around 2,700 medical practices in the United Kingdom potentially allows the medical records of patients to be accessed by unauthorized ... Read more
March 10, 2017 Expanded Awareness Video Campaigns to be Showcased by Wombat Security at the SXSW Conference Wombat Security Technologies will be showcasing a new addition to its Awareness Video Campaigns at this month’s South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference. The Awareness Video ... Read more
March 7, 2017 Spotinst and RightScale Partnership Helps Customers Automate Use of EC2 Spot Instances A new Rightscale and Spotinst partnership has been announced, which will see the Spotinst Elastigroup AWS spot instance management platform integrated into RightScale’s universal cloud ... Read more
March 3, 2017 Agari Wins Security PG 2017 Global Excellence Award for Best Security Software The cybersecurity firm Agari has been crowed winner of the Best Security Software category at this year’s Security Product Guide 2017 Global Excellence Awards. The ... Read more
March 1, 2017 InfoSec Institute Wins Silver for SecurityIQ at 2017 Info Security PG Awards The Elmwood Park, IL-based InfoSec Institute has received a silver medal for its SecurityIQ (v1) platform in the Security Training and Educational Programs category (11-99 ... Read more
February 28, 2017 MediaPro Awarded Gold Medal at 2017 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards Each year, the Info Security Products Guide recognizes the companies and individuals that have excelled in the field of information security and have developed innovative ... Read more
February 15, 2017 Ironscales Wins Best Messaging Security Solution Award Cyber Defense Magazine has announced the winners of its 2017 Awards, with Ironscales winning an Editor’s Choice Award in the Best Messaging Security Solution category ... Read more
February 15, 2017 February Patch Tuesday Delayed as Microsoft Fixes Last Minute Issues The Valentine’s Day update from Microsoft did not arrive yesterday as planned. February Patch Tuesday will be coming, just a little later than usual. The ... Read more
February 13, 2017 New Microsoft Security Tools for Businesses Soon to be Released On Friday, an announcement was made about a host of new Microsoft security tools for businesses that will soon be released. The new tools have ... Read more
February 10, 2017 MediaPro Launches Adaptive Planning Tool and Industry-Specific Security Awareness Training Program MediaPro has announced it has developed a new Adaptive Planning Tool that can be used in conjunction with its Adaptive Awareness Portal™ to develop custom ... Read more
February 10, 2017 SonicWall Releases New Version of its Next-Gen Email Security Solution SonicWall has announced the release of the latest version of its next-gen email security platform and firewall that has enhanced capabilities to protect against the ... Read more
February 8, 2017 Beware of LNK Attachments and Malicious SVG Files JavaScript attachments are still used to infect computers with malware and ransomware, but a new trend has emerged that is seeing cybercriminals switch to malicious ... Read more
February 2, 2017 Anti-Spoofing Email Security Tool Launched by IronScales IronScales, a leading Israeli cybersecurity firm, has launched a new anti-spoofing email security tool that prevents impersonation attacks using company domains and branding. The new ... Read more
January 30, 2017 Latest CloudCheckr Update Adds New Right-Sizing Capability After listening to feedback from its users, CloudCheckr has made a slew of updates to its platform in January to improve usability. The firm has ... Read more
January 30, 2017 PhishLine Uses Integrated Personality Assessments to Tailor Security Awareness Training to the Individual Cybercriminals often send phishing campaigns randomly. A typical organization may see phishing emails reach scores of inboxes. Training can be provided to reduce susceptibility to ... Read more
January 28, 2017 Spotinst Launches New Load Balancer Service Spotinst, the leading cloud monitoring and optimization solution provider, has launched a new load balancing service for cloud-based applications. Load balancing solutions currently on the ... Read more
January 27, 2017 Gmail to Start Blocking JavaScript Attachments from February 2017 Blocking JavaScript attachments can help to reduce malware and ransomware infections, yet Google has resisted adding the file attachments to its banned list. However, that ... Read more
January 19, 2017 MAPFRE Life HIPAA Settlement: $2.2 Million for Impermissible Disclosure of ePHI MAPFRE Life Insurance Company of Puerto Rico has settled potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with the Department of Health ... Read more
January 11, 2017 Agari Appoints New Chief Financial Officer The past two years has seen cybersecurity firm Agari enjoy rapid growth, helped by the release of its anti-spear phishing platform, Enterprise Protect™. Ensuring that ... Read more
January 11, 2017 January 2017 Patch Tuesday: Four Updates Issued by Microsoft January 2017 Patch Tuesday sees one of the lightest updates for Microsoft. The updates are spread across just four security bulletins, two of which have ... Read more
January 4, 2017 Global Cybercrime Costs Will Top $6 Trillion in 5 Years A recent report published by Cybersecurity Ventures suggests global cybercrime costs will double over the next five years. Global cybercrime costs in 2015 are estimated ... Read more
December 27, 2016 PhishLine Announces Partnership with Complete Solution Finder PhishLine has announced a new partnership with the Singapore-based information security system distributor, Complete Solution Finder. PhishLine is a leading provider of security awareness training. ... Read more
December 26, 2016 Microsoft Admits Its Windows 10 Update Policy Was Too Aggressive The aggressive tactics used by Microsoft to get push its Windows 10 upgrade annoyed many users. Many Windows users felt they were being bombarded with ... Read more
December 20, 2016 Cloud Cruiser Releases Enhanced Version of its Cloud Consumption Analytics SaaS Application Cloud Cruiser has announced the release of a new version of its cloud consumption analytics SaaS application. The new release includes enhanced budgeting capabilities to ... Read more
December 14, 2016 SecurityIQ Platform Updated to Allow Users to Upload Custom Training Modules The Infosec Institute has updated its SecurityIQ training platform to allow users to incorporate their own training modules to the AwareEd library. The InfoSec Institute ... Read more