Collaborate Disseminate
In the 1960s, Woodrow W. Bledsoe created a secret program that manually identified points on a person’s face and compared the distances between these coordinates with other images. Facial recognition technology has come a long way since then. The field… Continue reading Facing gender bias in facial recognition technology
67% of all malware in Q1 2020 was delivered via encrypted HTTPS connections and 72% of encrypted malware was classified as zero day, so would have evaded signature-based antivirus protection, according to WatchGuard. These findings show that without HT… Continue reading Most malware in Q1 2020 was delivered via encrypted HTTPS connections
Qualys Remote Endpoint Protection gets malware detection, free for 60 days Powered by the Qualys Platform and Cloud Agent, malware detection in Remote Endpoint Protection uses file reputation and threat classification to detect known malicious files on… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: June 12, 2020
WatchGuard announced the release of new Firebox T Series tabletop firewall appliances. WatchGuard’s new T20, T40 and T80 Fireboxes equip small, home and midsize office environments with the advanced performance required to support business-critical int… Continue reading WatchGuard Firebox T Series firewalls: Heightened HTTPS throughput, security services, SD-WAN
For much of the last decade, technology companies have been in an uphill battle to save encryption, a battle that has seen an increasing number of skirmishes that tech companies often lose. Throughout this ongoing clash, governments across the world ha… Continue reading Why building backdoors into encryption won’t make us safer
Evasive malware has grown to record high levels, with over two-thirds of malware detected by WatchGuard in Q4 2019 evading signature-based antivirus solutions. This is a dramatic increase from the year-long average of 35% for 2019 and points to the fac… Continue reading Evasive malware increasing, evading signature-based antivirus solutions
WatchGuard Technologies, a leading global provider of network security and intelligence, secure Wi-Fi and multi-factor authentication, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Panda Security, a leading global provider in adv… Continue reading WatchGuard acquires Panda Security to expand endpoint capabilities
The information security landscape seems to evolve at a faster clip each year. The deluge of ever-changing threats, attack techniques and new breaches making headlines can be challenging to track and assess. That’s why each year the WatchGuard Threat L… Continue reading What the government infosec landscape will look this year
Amid significant increases in both malware and network attacks, multiple Apache Struts vulnerabilities – including one used in the devastating Equifax data breach – appeared for the first time on WatchGuard’s list of most popular network attacks in Q3 … Continue reading As malware and network attacks increase in 2019, zero day malware accounts for 50% of detections
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a cornerstone of the internet. DNS servers connect URL names that humans can read to unique Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that web browsers can understand. Without DNS, we’d all be typing in long, seemingly rand… Continue reading How DNS filtering works and why businesses need it