Top 5 Tips to Avoid Ransomware Attack #NoWeDontWannaCry On Saturday, cybercriminals managed to infect businesses from more than one hundred and fifty countries with malicious software. The ransomware was spreading through a fault in the Windows OS. Microsoft immediately issued emergency patches for Windows XP, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2003 and encouraged individuals and […]

A few hours ago, Neel Mehta, a researcher at Google posted a mysterious message on Twitter with the #WannaCryptAttribution hashtag: The cryptic message in fact refers to a similarity between two samples that have shared code. The two samples Neel refers to in the post are: A WannaCry cryptor sample from February 2017 which looks […]

Hacker groups have become highly trained organizations with access to very sophisticated and easily accessible tools and techniques. Cyberattacks have become professionalized and their economic profitability has been demonstrated countless times, turning it into a billion-dollar industry in recent years. Economic profit and jeopardizing the confidential data of global corporations are the main objectives of […]

How “13 Reasons Why” can help fight cyberbullying The Netflix TV series 13 Reasons Why has become a worldwide smash hit with teenagers drawn into the tale of a teenage girl’s suicide. Dealing with powerful issues like sexual assault, drugs, bullying and of course, suicide, the program has won praise from critics and viewers alike. […]

Over the past months, our researchers have been hard at work building a new version of Adaptive Defense to bring users the best prevention, detection and response endpoint solution against rapidly evolving modern day cyberattacks. This version includes our latest dynamic anti-exploit technology, a radically faster way to detect attacks at any stage of exploitation, […]

Anyone can fall victim to a twitter hack. “I hope the new world order will arrive as soon as possible!” – Britney Spears 2011 It used to be easy to quote literature and big names in a credible way. You’d pick out a book with an author’s name on the cover and you could use […]

News Overview Thanks to IoT botnets, DDoS attacks have finally turned from something of a novelty into an everyday occurrence. According to the A10 Networks survey, this year the ‘DDoS of Things’ (DoT) has reached critical mass – in each attack, hundreds of thousands of devices connected to the Internet are being leveraged. The fight […]

In pursuit of a high cyberthreat detection rate, the some developers of cybersecurity solutions neglect the subject matter of false positives, and unfairly so. Indeed, this is a very inconvenient matter that some developers tend to overlook (or try to solve with questionable methods) until there is a serious incident that could paralyze the work […]