Since ransomware was founded in 1996, many ransomware gangs have attempted and failed to quake the cybersecurity landscape. But some have broken through and even rearranged it with their obfuscatory cyberattack methods. Netwalker ransomware is an example of such a success. Within its first six months of operation, the ransomware gang received more than $25 million in ransom payments. What is Netwalker ransomware and why is it so lethal? To learn more, read on.

Full stack development is all the rage these days, and for good reason: developers with both front-end web development skills and back-end/server coding prowess clearly offer substantially more value to their respective organizations. The ability to traverse the entire stack competently also makes interacting and cooperating with operations and security an easier affair—a key tenet of DevOps culture.

Organizations are increasingly turning to Kubernetes, but they’re having trouble balancing security in the process. In its State of Container and Kubernetes Security Fall 2020 survey, for instance, StackRox found that 91% of respondents were using Kubernetes to orchestrate their containers and that three quarters of organizations were using the open-source container-orchestration system in production.

Cybersecurity is in the news again with the disclosure that Tesla, working in conjunction with the FBI, prevented a ransomware attack from being launched at its Gigafactory in Nevada. The cybercriminals targeted Tesla through one of its employees, whom they allegedly promised to pay $1 million in order to help them infect the company’s system with malware.

Does your organization consider working with a MSSP? Don’t make a commitment before reading our article about how to choose the right MSSP for you! Regardless of the reason why you decide to work with an MSSP, you must be very careful and fastidious when selecting a MSSP for your organization. In this article, we will discuss what you need to consider before making a commitment.

An Elastic Security Advisory (ESA) is a notice from Elastic to its users of a new Elasticsearch vulnerability. The vendor assigns both a CVE and an ESA identifier to each advisory along with a summary and remediation details. When Elastic receives an issue, they evaluate it and, if the vendor decides it is a vulnerability, work to fix it before releasing a remediation in a timeframe that matches the severity.

A skillful black hat hacker can quickly assume control of your digital products with just a few swift modifications to its coding, and as businesses continue to digitize their processes, this risk of penetration will only multiply. The solution is the adoption of secure coding practices. Secure coding is a method of writing software and source code that's shielded from cyber attacks.

The question is indeed a contentious one, never failing to incite heated arguments from all camps. Many ways exist to cut the cake in this regard—WhiteHat Security took a stab at it in a recent edition of its Website Security Statistics Report, where it analyzed statistics around web programming languages and their comparative strengths in security.

Historically targeting the financial sector, and first observed in 2014 as a banking trojan, Emotet remains an active and credible threat to organizations across all industries worldwide and, whilst retaining some core data stealing capabilities, has evolved to act as a downloader for secondary malicious payloads.