Mimecast Secure Email Gateway recognized as a leader based on 2,000 user reviews. Mimecast, a leading email security and cyber-resilience company, has announced it has been presented with a TrustRadius 2020 Top Rated Award. Based entirely on customer feedback, the Mimecast Secure Email Gateway was named a valuable player in the category, receiving a trScore of 8.7 […]

South Africa has just been hit by one of the largest-ever data breaches after Experian, one of the country’s biggest credit bureaus, was hacked. Experian said the personal information details of as many as 24 million South Africans, and nearly 800,000 business were compromised. These records were “exposed to a suspected fraudster”. Experian has reported […]

Auth0, the identity platform for application teams, has launched Bot Detection, a new security feature that reduces the effectiveness of a credential stuffing attack by as much as 85%, with minimal impact on user experience. Bot Detection is a powerful addition to the company’s expanding security portfolio, and works in tandem with Auth0 Breached Password […]

New Pulse Zero Trust Access (PZTA) service enhances productivity, simplifies management and mitigates cyber-risks as enterprises embrace increased workforce mobility and utility computing. Pulse Secure, a leading provider of software-defined secure access solutions, has announced the launch of Pulse Zero Trust Access (PZTA), a cloud-based, multi-tenant secure access service that enables organizations to provide users […]

US company Garmin has been the victim of a cyberattack that resulted in major disruption to its services. The company, which produces activity trackers and sports watches, said: “Garmin Ltd. was the victim of a cyberattack that encrypted some of our systems on July 23, 2020. As a result, many of our online services were […]

Visualizations of user/host relationships, live data updates and quick onboarding of cloud data sources make for a powerful security analyst experience. LogRhythm has announced the launch of version 7.5 of the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform as well as the inaugural release of its Open Collector technology. LogRhythm 7.5 provides enhanced analyst workflow experiences and visibility, […]

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a series of attacks which use an advanced malware framework, called MATA, to target Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems. In use since spring 2018, the framework is linked to Lazarus – a well-known and prolific North Korean APT group. Malicious toolsets used to target multiple platforms are a rare breed, […]

The UK is the fourth most exposed country to cyber vulnerabilities in the world, behind the US, China and South Korea, a report by Rapid7 has found. Rapid7’s National Industry Cloud Exposure Report (NICER) for 2020 also finds that despite significant efforts on the part of the UK National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) to encourage exposure […]

The UK has called for an end to irresponsible cyberattacks by the Russian Intelligence Services, who are suspected of collecting information on vaccine development and research into the COVID-19 virus. This follows a joint advisory by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the US and Canada on how to protect against these attacks. The […]

Prominent US figures have been targeted by hackers on Twitter in what the company calls a ‘disruptive’ and ‘socially engineered’ attack. The official accounts of leading politicians and celebrities were hacked to request donations to the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. In a series of tweets, Twitter stated: “We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social […]