Cybereason Discovers Global Botnet Campaign Leveraging Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability. The Prometei Botnet crosses many industries and countries globally; Victims are random, making the botnet more dangerous and widespread.
Cisco Unveils Passwordless Future with Stronger Security for All
Cisco introduces infrastructure agnostic, passwordless authentication by Duo, enabling users to skip the password and securely log into cloud applications via security keys or platform biometrics.
Tenable and HCL BigFix Leverage Risk-Based Insights with Strategic Partnership
Tenable and HCL BigFix Leverage Risk-Based Insights to Speed Vulnerability Remediation Workflows with Strategic Partnership. New integration accelerates the vulnerability assessment, prioritisation and remediation lifecycle to secure business-critical assets.
Health tech company launches groundbreaking product
Lumen is the first handheld, portable device and app that measures your metabolism in real-time with just your breath. Lumen is making personal, at home metabolic tracking available outside of research labs for the first time – revolutionising the way we approach weight loss, fitness and healthy nutrition decision making.
Attacks against remote access protocols continue to rise
Attacks against remote access protocols continue to rise over the past year, reaching 15.8 million in the UAE.
Service Accounts – Challenges and Best Practices
Service accounts are a particular type of non-human privileged account used to execute applications and run automated services, virtual machine instances, and other processes. These accounts can be privileged local or domain accounts, and in some cases, they may have domain administrative privileges. This high level of privilege facilitates the smooth operation of many IT workflows, but a single service account can easily be referenced in many applications or processes. This interconnection, along with the critical nature of their usage, makes them very difficult to manage.
Adoption of multi-cloud strategy can fuel digital transformation – SolarWinds
Sacha Giese, Head Geek at SolarWinds, has penned an exclusive op-ed for February’s edition of CNME, in which he outlines how a multi-cloud approach and strategy can be a driver for digital transformation.
Attackers turn delivery method for Gootkit malware into multi-payload “Gootloader” platform: Sophos Report
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has published new research, “Gootloader Expands Its Payload Delivery Options,” that details how …
Veeam releases new V11 with 200+ enhancements
Veeam Releases New V11 with 200+ Enhancements, Eliminating Ransomware and Data Loss while Providing a Single Platform for Modern Data Protection.
Nutanix Extends Ransomware Protections to Help Customers
Nutanix Extends Ransomware Protections to Help Secure Customers’ IT Environments. Hybrid and multi-cloud leader strengthens networking, storage and virtualisation services.
TrickBot emerges as UAE’s top malware threat
Check Point Research, the Threat Intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, a leading provider of cyber security solutions …
Sophos Uncovers New Evasion Techniques Used to Bypass Security
Sophos Uncovers New Delivery and Evasion Techniques Used By Agent Tesla to Bypass Security.
AV names Kaspersky Internet Security as Product of the Year
Kaspersky’s flagship home user security solution – Kaspersky Internet Security – was honoured with the Product of the Year 2020 award for an impressive sixth time, in an annual report released by independent test lab AV-Comparatives. Kaspersky was acknowledged ahead of 16 peers by achieving Advanced+ awards in seven rigorous tests, to rank the company highest overall across the participating Windows security products.
BeyondTrust’s revenue grew with its Management solution
BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix & Linux Grows Q4 Revenue 83% YoY by Securing Cloud Infrastructure.
Huawei AI Seamless Life Integration Concept
Laptops and tablets have seen an increase in demand, requiring smartphones to perfectly integrate in between.
Kaspersky reveals two APT incidents related to vaccine research
Kaspersky researchers identified two APT incidents that targeted entities related to COVID-19 research – a Ministry of Health body and a pharmaceutical company.
Sophos Announces 4 New Artificial Intelligence Developments
SophosAI Advances the Practices and Languages that will Transform the Cybersecurity Industry with Much-needed Transparency and Openness.
Attacks on remote desktop protocols grew by 177% in the UAE
The new stay at home way of living has resulted in organisations adjusting their corporate networks and led to the emergence of new threats, as well as the strengthening of existing ones. This does not necessarily mean that the total number of identified attacks grew in 2020, yet their redistribution is clear.
BeyondTrust Cybersecurity Predictions for 2021 and Beyond
BeyondTrust experts forecast the top cybersecurity trends and threats vectors for 2021.
McAfee sees COVID-19-themed threats surge in Q2 2020
Over the course of Q2, McAfee’s global network of over a billion sensors observed a 605% increase in COVID-19-related attack detections compared to Q1.