Author: Asad Yaseen

We’ve all come to a realization that we don’t go anywhere without our phone. It’s a utility that helps us navigate our daily lives: directions, schedules, shopping, discounts, banking, and so on. And as our reliance on our smartphone continues to grow, it’s no wonder that hackers have taken notice. This time, it’s another case of an app gone rogue. Innocent Scanner Turned Malware Super-Spreader With over 10 million downloads, the Barcode Scanner app provided…

This guide covers the basics about the password management app LastPass, including its newly announced free cross-platform access. Not all password managers are created equal, and LastPass is one of the standout options. Available for almost every OS, browser, and mobile platform on the market, LastPass is designed to have you safe, secure, and encrypted wherever you happen to be. TechRepublic’s cheat sheet about LastPass is a quick introduction to this password management app, as…

By Milica D. Djekic Abstract: The modern cyber systems could deal with some kinds of information leakage concerns such as source, routing, and destination data losses. Any of them can mean that the entire infrastructure is under monitoring as well as risk, so it’s important to develop some sort of inverse attack methodologies that can offer us the chance to appropriately respond to such kinds of breaches compromising our IT environment. In other words, if…

News Detail PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced that Raghu Raghuram, VMware’s chief operating officer, products and cloud services will present as a keynote speaker at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Virtual Conference on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 at 2:45 p.m. PT/ 5:45 p.m. ET. A live webcast will be … Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE:…

Use of “domain age” is a feature being promoted by various firewall and web security vendors as a method to protect users and systems from accessing malicious internet destinations. The concept is to use domain age as a generic traffic filtering parameter. The thought is that hosts associated with newly registered domains should be either completely blocked, isolated, or treated with high suspicion. This blog will describe what domain age is, how domains are created…

Maryland cybersecurity company Bridge Inc. has been acquired by technology solutions provider Applied Insight LLC. The acquisition of the Hanover-based firm was announced today, though terms of the deal were not disclosed. Baird acted as exclusive financial adviser to Bridges on the transaction. News of the deal came to light 12 months and five days after Applied Insight announced that it had acquired cloud integrator Digital Age Experts LLC, which is based in Reston, Virginia. Bridges…

The security company found that 85% of workers spend up to five hours a week watching YouTube, listening to podcasts, or exercising during work hours. Image: iStock/metamorworks Mixing work and play might be a good thing if it breaks up the monotony of security monitoring, according to Kaspersky. The company’s survey about IT security economics found that 85% of workers spend up to five hours a week reading the news, watching TV shows, or even…