Latest Version Includes Support for SAML and JSON Payload Inspection With the latest version of Barracuda Web Application Firewall, version 8.0, Barracuda released support for the latest enhancements to Barracuda Control Server, its on-premises platform for central management, to further streamline the management of product updates, shared policies, and services across multiple clusters and data center locations. Building on its support for Microsoft Azure AD, Barracuda Web Application Firewall now offers enhanced support for Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to enable it to work with a broader range of systems utiliisng SAML, including Microsoft ADFS, Swiss ID, and more. The…
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Oberthur Technologies (OT), a world leader in digital security solutions for the mobility space, scored number 1 position for innovation in the payment sector in ABI Research’s Payment & Banking Card Technologies competitive assessment. OT’s strong innovative strategy and products such as its revolutionary OT Motion Code™ – the world-first dynamic cryptogram solution – and its embedded Secure Element based mobile payment solution made the difference. Innovation is a key focus for OT with 700 dedicated engineers and 11 R&D centers across the world. OT has recently announced the launch of the pilot of the first payment card integrating Motion…
Financial services businesses encounter security incidents 300 percent more frequently than other industries Raytheon|Websense, a global leader in protecting organisations from the latest cyber attacks and data theft, announced the release of the Websense Security Labs™ 2015 Financial Services Drill-Down Report examining the current state of cyber threats and data-stealing attacks against financial services institutions (FS). The research reveals a high degree of specialisation among criminals attacking financial services, a huge investment in the lure attack phase and the specific and anomalous attacks pointed at global targets dealing in finance. “The famous quote, attributed to bank robber, Willie Sutton that he robbed banks…
New Technology Enhances OPSWAT’s Gears and OESIS Framework Solutions OPSWAT, a software company that provides solutions to secure and manage IT infrastructure, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent 9,021,163 entitled Determining Whether a Data Storage is Encrypted. Inventors are Benjamin Czarny (CEO, OPSWAT), Jianpeng Mo (Director of Software Engineering, OPSWAT), and Boris Dynin (Consultant, Movil, inc.). About OPSWAT OESIS Framework and Gears OESIS Framework is a cross platform SDK that enables software engineers and technology vendors to develop products for securing and managing endpoints through detecting, classifying, assessing and managing thousands of third-party software…
Intro Cytegic DyTA intelligence platform gathers, processes and analyses hundreds of thousands of intelligence feeds on a month basis, to allow a quick and understandable cyber-trend analysis. DyTA enables cyber-intelligence analysts and CISOs to understand and analyze the threat level of each attacker and attack method relevant to their organization, according to their geopolitical region, industry sector and corporate assets. The following report represents the most interesting and active cyber-trends that DyTA analyzed before and during the Copa America 2015 in Chile. As a background we analyzed the main trends that occurred during the 2014 World Cup which took place…
New scheme aims to help reduce electronic waste, protect the environment and cut the mining of minerals in conflict-affected regions while supporting the International Co-operative Alliance’s appeal for the reconstruction of co-operatives in Nepal ShP Limited has partnered with The Phone Co-op, trading as The Co-operative Mobile, for a new initiative encouraging the public to recycle their old mobile phones at www.thephone.coop/recycle. For every phone donated before the end of July, individuals also have the opportunity to win a Fairphone, the world’s first smartphone to put social values and ethical production first. Once an individual enters details of their mobile’s…
Disaster recovery is the area of security planning that deals with protecting an organization from the effects of significant negative events. A major incident in an organization but most especially a small organization, can have catastrophic repercussions including causing it to cease operating if bad enough. Therefore, it is vital that all organizations take the whole issue of disaster recovery seriously and put a contingency plan in place prior to any incident actually taking place. This will then allow the organization to recover as they will have had a plan in place to get things moving again. This infographic from…
Veracode’s 2015 State of Software Security Report benchmarks risk profile for 34 industries across seven vertical markets Veracode, a leader in protecting enterprises from today’s pervasive web and mobile application threats, released the 2015 State of Software Security report that reveals concerning benchmark analytics from its cloud-based platform. The reports shows that web and mobile applications produced or used by government organisations are more likely than those in other industries to fail standard security policies like the OWASP Top 10 when initially assessed for risk. Veracode’s analytics also show that government organisations only remediate 27 percent of application vulnerabilities once…
Major global players in the world of security and safety are responding to rapid demand surges and accelerating delivery of innovative leading-edge products, services and solutions. Taiwan Excellence Award-winning Taiwanese companies EverFocus Electronics Corporation, VIVOTEK Inc., QNAP Systems Inc., and PLANET Technology Corporation have contributed significantly to Taiwan hitting the top position worldwide in IP video surveillance, disaster prevention and fire safety. Latest reports from research company Memoori estimate the total worldwide market value of the security industry to be over $25 billion. These latest figures highlight a rapid growth rate of 7.5% in 2014 alone. The main drivers for…
A Ruby gem is a standard packaging format used for Ruby libraries and applications. This packaging format allows Ruby software developers a clearly defined format in which they can reliably build and distribute software. Developer’s push Ruby gems to a distribution server (aka: a gem server) where by users can then install the Ruby application using “gem install gem_name”. In a recent presentation, “Trojaned Gems: You can’t tell you’re using one” at THOTCON 0x6, we (Brandon Myers and Jonathan Claudius) shared some of our research looking at the security of the Ruby gem eco system. The original goal of the…