Three million Android users may have lost money and had their devices infected by spyware, after the discovery that the official Google Play store has been distributing apps infected by a new family of malware. French security researcher Maxime Ingrao described last week on Twitter how he had discovered the new malware, named “Autolycos”, and how it signs up users to premium services.
Snyk recently partnered with the Linux Foundation to produce a report focusing on the state of security in the open source software (OSS) space. The report was based on 550+ survey responses and 15 interviews with OSS maintenance and cybersecurity experts. Following the report’s publication, experts from Snyk held a webinar with the Linux Foundation to discuss some of the key insights.
The Metaverse is defined as a network of connected virtual worlds that use virtual reality (VR) and/or augmented reality (AR) technologies to offer a more immersive experience for users.
“Hey, did you read about (blank)?” Keeping up with the barrage of news is just one of our many daily distractions from work. Toss in our personal obligations and other stressors – all fighting for space in our minds – and making a dent in the to-do list is often harder than we expect.
“PII” stands for personally identifiable information. Hackers often target personally identifiable information for a variety of reasons: to steal a customer’s identity, take over an account, launch a phishing attack, or damage an organization. As a result, there is a multitude of regulations concerning PII protection. Before your company approaches meeting these regulations, it’s important to have a firm understanding of the data you will be protecting.
Protecting and managing Google Cloud environments just got easier. Rubrik Cloud Native Protection is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace. Since 2019, Rubrik has been a trusted Google Cloud partner helping organizations enable data protection, automation, granular search, and world-class Zero Trust data security in the cloud. Rubrik helps organizations become cyber resilient through data immutability, logical air gapping, end-to-end encryption, and granular role-based access control.
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is becoming the dominant way enterprises access digital tools. While this delivery method has many advantages, from scalability to consistent security updates, it can create significant vulnerabilities if developers and users aren’t careful. Organizations today use more than 100 SaaS apps on average, and that figure keeps climbing.
The software security landscape has drastically evolved over the past few years. Think back to the start of COVID-19. The sudden shift to virtual operations expediated digital transformations. Government agencies now have to release new digital products and services in tighter timeframes, causing public sector leadership to choose between speed of deployments or verifiably secure code. The data says it all...
The telecom industry is continuously evolving as laws governing the industry change, providers join new markets, and the expansion of cellular connections continues to grow. And since the global pandemic of COVID-19, millions of people around the world have relied on the availability of network services to work in addition to keeping in contact with their loved ones.
Here at SecurityScorecard, our mission is simple: To make the world a safer place. This mission necessitates that we embrace trust, transparency, and security. In furtherance of this mission, today we released our first-ever Chrome Extension. With the new SecurityScorecard Chrome Extension, you can automatically see the simple A-F security rating of the websites you visit, enabling you to evaluate the risk of the sites you visit before supplying your data to them.
