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While security professionals keep developing better software programs, hackers simultaneously devise strategies for combating the upgraded defense. Therefore, in order to analyze the importance of cybersecurity while staying one step ahead of these hackers, the security professionals need to...
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The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) recently issued a guideline to all commercials banks across Kenya to fortify their cybersecurity and establish effective cybersecurity governance and risk management. The CBK acknowledged the growing risk of cyber threats and highlighted...
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When it comes to validating the identity of any public key infrastructure, digital certificates hold all the aces. A digital certificate is more of an electronic snippet that lends legitimacy to a web service or portal— associating the same...
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With the increase in mobility of users, their usage and the access to the organization’s information assets extending to off-campus locations, the security perimeter keeps continuously changing. This has led to a situation that a simple security solution within...
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The airline business is unique. While public perception about aviation is that of a luxury business; the business world sees it as a financial behemoth reeling under debt burdens. Only people from the aviation industry and a few from the security industry understand that...
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Most of the organizations have already moved on to SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to protect their data in motion. We like to believe that once SSL protocol is implemented our data is safe from the hackers. However, the hackers too have learned to take...
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Quick Heal Security Labs has been observing the infamous Locky ransomware outbreak which kicked off recently in the last week of September. The outbreak started with spam email with various subjects and different attachment names. On 26th September, spam campaign delivering a new...
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With the world moving towards a machine determined future, somewhere deep within, it does bother many of us when we think about the power we intend to leave in the hands of machines. Honestly, some of us are worried...
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Quick Heal Security Labs has come across various email campaigns that are actively exploiting the famous vulnerability CVE-2017-0199 in their bid to target prominent private industries in India. CVE-2017-0199 was a zero-day vulnerability reported in April 2017 by two...
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The fileless malware is a malware family that does not leave any trace of its infection in the affected file system. Also known as the ‘memory resident virus’, this type of malware hides in the registry and memory making...