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SentinelOne announces general availability of Central Park console SentinelOne announced the general release of Central Park, a console update enhancing its protection capabilities and simplifying its user and management experience. With this update, S… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: July 27, 2018
SentinelOne announced the general release of Central Park, a console update enhancing its protection capabilities and simplifying its user and management experience. With this update, SentinelOne’s prevention, detection, and response capabilities are e… Continue reading SentinelOne announces general availability of Central Park console
More than half (53 percent) of U.S. organizations that were infected with ransomware blamed legacy antivirus protection for failing to prevent the attack, according to SentinelOne. Nearly 7 out of 10 of these companies have replaced legacy AV with next… Continue reading Organizations blame legacy antivirus protection for failed ransomware prevention
Software download site/aggregator MacUpdate has been spotted delivering a new Mac crypto miner to users. A new Mac cryptominer was being distributed from hacked MacUpdate pages yesterday, disguised as Firefox, OnyX and Deeper.https://t.co/W8jcotFixl#ma… Continue reading Mac crypto miner distributed via MacUpdate, other software download sites
One of the toughest challenges for an IT security team is managing and sifting through the deluge of security alerts that are created on a daily basis. Teams can waste considerable time chasing down false positives with the resultant burden on manpower and IT resources adding costs. However, the stakes are high; failing to detect an active infection can have far more serious financial consequences. Alarms and alerts are designed to signal problems that need … More → Continue reading The real cost of alarm fatigue
The death of antivirus has been prophesied for years now, but the AV industry is still alive and kicking. SentinelOne, though, believes that in-memory resident attacks, i.e. fileless malware, just might be the thing that pushes it into oblivion. They base their conjecture on the results of the attack detections made through over a million of SentinelOne Endpoint Protection Platform agents, deployed in enterprise environments across the world. These detections are made at the endpoint, … More → Continue reading Will fileless malware push the antivirus industry into oblivion?
According to recent reports, ransomware is now a billion dollar business for cybercriminals. Attackers are honing in on the weak spots of organisations; human behaviour through social engineering and ineffective cyber protection techniques based on static analysis. They’ll lure individuals to open phishing emails, or simply wait for users to click on a compromised website before executing malware that alters data and corrupts or deletes back-ups. Certainly, these figures point to the fact that cybercriminals … More → Continue reading Why companies shouldn’t feel helpless in the fight against ransomware
A new Vanson Bourne survey of 500 businesses in the UK, US, France and Germany revealed that nine in ten companies want to see IT security vendors offer a guarantee on their products and services, and 85 per cent claim they would change providers if they could find an alternate IT security vendor who offers a guarantee. An earlier survey revealed that whilst 85 per cent of businesses globally use antivirus products on all their … More → Continue reading Should security vendors offer product guarantees?
Hackers of all stripes looking to test their mettle can now legally hone their cyber skills, tools and weaponry against any Web property operated by the U.S. Department of Defense, according to a new military-wide policy for reporting and fixing security vulnerabilities.
Security researchers are often reluctant to report programming flaws or security holes they’ve stumbled upon for fear that the vulnerable organization might instead decide to shoot the messenger and pursue hacking charges. But on Nov. 21, the DoD aimed to clear up any ambiguity on that front for the military’s substantial online presence, creating both a centralized place to report cybersecurity flaws across the dot-mil space as well as a legal safe harbor (and the prospect of public recognition) for researchers who abide by a few ground rules. Continue reading DoD Opens .Mil to Legal Hacking, Within Limits
In the last 12 months, 48 percent of organizations across the globe have fallen victim to a ransomware campaign, with 80 percent indicating that they’ve suffered from three or more attacks, according to a global survey conducted by Vanson Bourne. In response to ransomware attacks, 67 percent of businesses globally have increased IT security spending, and 52 percent reported that they are changing their security strategies to focus on mitigation. Fifty-four percent also agreed that … More → Continue reading Ransomware success creates apathy towards traditional antivirus software