Tag: Software

  • Autonomic Software Patches Won’t Help

    At the end of 2016, 7 teams from across the country met at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada for the first all-machine hacking tournament. The teams each were tasked with defending groups of air-gapped systems by identifying software vulnerabilities, generating patches for those vulnerabilities, and deploying those patches to the running systems in…

  • DHS cyber incubator graduates malware ‘playback’ tech

    A software package that records and “replays” the operation of malware is the latest technology to graduate from a Department of Homeland Security incubator. The technology, REnigma, allows network defenders to quickly see exactly how an attack unfolded and work out how best to recover, DHS official Nadia Carlsten told CyberScoop. Read full news article on…

  • Kaspersky (partly) launches its 2018 security products

    Every year, with a rather confusing release schedule, Kaspersky’s global office will launch and announce their current range, but only in a select number of territories. As an example, Kaspersky Internet Security 2018 and Total Security 2018 are available in the United States, Australia, Malaysia, but not in the United Kingdom, Europe and most other countries. The launch…

  • Nmap 7.60 released: SSH support, SMB2/SMB3 improvements, 14 more scripts

    Nmap scripts can now perform brute force SSH password cracking, query servers about what auth methods and public keys they accept, and even log in using known or discovered credentials to execute arbitrary commands. Nmap 7.60 includes four scripts to start out with, and it opens the door to many more future capabilities. Read full…

  • Congress continues Kaspersky probe fearing ‘nefarious activities against the United States’

    US suspicions about Kaspersky’s links to the Vladimir Putin are not diminishing. The government has been tracking the Russian security company, and now Congress is seeking information from 22 government agencies about the firm. Read full news article on BetaNews  

  • Kaspersky releases Internet Security 18 for Mac

    Do you need security software for your Mac? Whenever we’ve installed any security suite on our Macs they seriously reduce the effectiveness of our computer with almost the minimum advantage. Read full news article on BetaNews  

  • This Clever Software Could Save You From A Ransomware Nightmare

    Security researchers are doing everything they can to protect you from ransomware, and they’re coming up with some very clever ways to do it. Read full news article on Forbes.com  

  • OpenText Opens Up Its Wallet Once Again for Guidance Software and Covisint

    OpenText is on a buying spree. Yesterday, just hours before it officially closed on its acquisition of identity management and IoT platform provider Covisint, OpenText announced it has reached a definitive agreement to buy Pasadena-Calif.-based Guidance Software for approximately $222 million. Read full news article on CMSWire  

  • OpenText acquires forensic security vendor Guidance Software for $240 million

    OpenText, the content management company based in Waterloo, Ontario announced today that it was buying Guidance Software, a forensic security and eDiscovery vendor for $240 million. OpenText agreed to pay Guidance shareholders $7.10 a share. Read full news article on TechCrunch  

  • Software Libraries Account for Just 7% of App Vulns

    The average application contains 26.7 custom code vulnerabilities, as compared to just two common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in library code. As such, custom code accounts for 93% of an application’s overall vulnerabilities. Read full news article on Infosecurity  

  • Review: Pwnie Express Pulse

    Pwnie Express Pulse is a SaaS offering that uses custom hardware sensors to provide continuous network discovery, threat detection, risk assessment, and critical information about all security issues that should be resolved. After seeing Pulse in action, I can say that Pwnie Express came a long way from being a crowd pleaser at security conferences…

  • Cyberattack on Medical Software Shows Industry Vulnerability

    Many doctors still can’t use a transcription service made by Nuance Communications Inc. three weeks after the company was hit by a powerful, debilitating computer attack. Read full news article on Data Center Knowledge  

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