Author: Asad Yaseen

Jack Wallen shows you how to gain a bit more security on your Linux servers by blocking users from adding cron jobs. Image: Pixabay You’re a new Linux admin and you’re familiar with how cron works. You’ve been tasked with hardening your Linux servers and one thing you’d like to do is prevent users from setting up their own cron jobs. After all, shouldn’t that task fall into your hands?  You certainly don’t want users…

DDoS attacks fell by almost a third (31%) in Q4 of 2020 compared to Q3, according to new figures from Kaspersky. The researchers believe this reduction is linked to the surge in cryptocurrency costs, with cyber-criminals increasingly turning their attention to cryptomining. Kaspersky statistics showed that while the number of cryptominers declined throughout 2019 and at the start of 2020, from August 2020, this form of malware has gone up slightly. With cryptomining becoming more lucrative, it…

Cybersecurity trends emerging from nearly a year of remote working were highlighted by a panel of experts during a RSAC 365 Innovation Showcase webinar. Robert Ackerman JR, founder and managing director, Allegis Cyber, described how the “virtualization” of organizations’ perimeters has significantly expanded the attack surface for cyber-criminals. He believes COVID-19 lockdown measures have accelerated this new perimeter by five years in the space of one, and encouragingly, there has been “a lot of innovation…

The Dark Web allows cybercriminals to create a Cyber Attacks-as-a-Service ecosystem that outmaneuvers security defenses. Here are tips on how businesses can try to thwart cybercrime. Image: gorodenkoff, Getty Images/iStockphoto A group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) studied why cybercriminals are way ahead when it comes to technical innovation. Cybersecurity researchers Keman Huang, Michael Siegel, Keri Pearlson and Stuart Madnick in their paper Casting the Dark Web in a New Light, published in…

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, announced today that members of its management team will be presenting at the following financial community event: Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom ConferenceTuesday, March 2, 20218:00 a.m. PST Additional information about upcoming investor event participation and a live audio webcast of each presentation will be accessible from the “Investors” section of the Palo Alto Networks website at…

CrowdStrike has announced a $400 million deal to acquire British log management firm Humio in a bid to bolster its extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities. The endpoint security and threat intelligence giant claimed it was “blown away” by the London-based firm’s high-performance cloud log management and observability technology. Its proven ability to deliver at scale makes it the perfect fit for the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, it added. “By leveraging new ingest pipelines and cloud…

Over 100 private sector firms were breached in the SolarWinds attack, the White House has revealed. Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology, told the press yesterday that many of those affected were technology companies, “whose products could be used to launch additional intrusions.” That’s certainly what appears to have happened with the targeting of firms like FireEye, Microsoft, Malwarebytes, Mimecast and Palo Alto Networks — although not all of these…