London, UK: Bromium Inc. has published its “Endpoint Exploitation Trends 1H 2015,” a Bromium Labs research report that analyzes the ongoing security risk of popular websites and software. The report highlights that more than 50 percent of malvertising is unknowingly hosted on news and entertainment websites, Flash exploits have increased 60 percent in the past six months and the growth of ransomware families has doubled each year since 2013.
Lack of qualified staff named second biggest challenge with user access and vulnerability management among the top headaches for overworked security teams
LONDON: A survey conducted by Tenable Network Security recently has found that disjointed technologies are the biggest challenge facing UK IT security professionals in 2015.
Following an extensive piece of research, Tripwire’s Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team (VERT) can confirm it has discovered Zero-day vulnerabilities in three of the top-selling ‘Smart Home Hub' products available on Amazon.
In this article, Christopher Bailey, CTO, NuData writes on behavioural profiling defeating typing biometrics by using browser extensions such as Chrome. Mr Bailey gives reasons why these types of browser extensions are rarely detailed enough to circumvent fraud prevention technologies and why people need biometric technology to help protect them from ID theft and fraud.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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