BlackBerry Cylance and Swimlane have teamed up to offer a new use case that combines the power of security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) with CylancePROTECT’s integrated threat prevention solution.
Security researchers have found a new malware campaign using WAV audio files to hide their malware. It’s said the attackers are using Steganography to embed the malicious code within the WAV audio files. Steganography is an ancient practice of hiding secret content and text messages inside non-suspicious messages.
The European Union has warned that “state-backed” companies from “hostile” countries could infiltrate 5G networks to paralyse the continent, without directly referencing any particular country company.
Certificate Authority (CA) and provider of purpose-built and automated PKI management solutions Sectigo, have teamed up with SPYRUS, a provider of cryptographic operating systems delivering the strongest protection for data in motion, at rest, and at work, to help universities and enterprises protect against ransomware attacks.
Google has released the October 2019 Android Security Bulletin, giving carriers and device makers a fresh set of patches to install. Google device firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer site.
BlackBerry today announced the creation of BlackBerry Advanced Technology Development Labs (BlackBerry Labs), a new business unit operating at the forefront of research and development in the cybersecurity space.
BlackBerry has today rolled out the September 2019 Android Security update to BlackBerry Android devices. The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices.
Huawei's membership to the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has been suspended. The tech giant has been denied its participation in the forum, whose goal is to serve as a first responder to cyber-attacks and security breaches, providing information and advice on how to counter and prevent these type of situations.
Google has released the September 2019 Android Security Bulletin, giving carriers and device makers a fresh set of patches to install. Google device firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer site.
Though Google puts out the Android security patches each month, the job of actually getting the fixes to end users falls on the telcos and/or device manufacturers themselves. Those partners vary in their ability to release the patches in a timely fashion.
NTT Security has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). This latest move forms part of its commitment to sharing its strategic threat intelligence with industry partners and law enforcement agencies to prevent cybercrime globally.
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Google has announced that you can now verify your identity by using your fingerprint or screen lock instead of a password when visiting certain Google services. The feature is available today on Pixel devices and coming to all Android 7+ devices over the next few days.
Apple is offering cyber security researchers up to $1 million bounty to detect security flaws in macOS, tvOS, watchOS and iCloud. It is the highest bug bounty on offer from any major tech company, at a time of rising privacy concerns on mobile devices.
