Sean Michael Kerner

Social networking site Reddit announced on Aug. 1 that it was the victim of a data breach. While the data breach that Reddit publicly disclosed was new, the data that attackers stole was not. After managing to bypass the two-factor authentication (2FA) credential of a Reddit administrator, attackers were able to steal an 11-year-old database […]

Cisco announced on Aug. 2 that it is acquiring identity services provider Duo Security in an all-cash deal valued at $2.35 billion. Cisco expects the deal to close in the first quarter of its fiscal 2019 year. Duo Security has developed a number of technologies, including cloud-delivered identity, multifactor authentication and zero-trust access control technology and […]

Bromium is expanding its product portfolio with a new Protected App offering that it announced on Aug. 1. Protected App provides a different capability than Bromium’s flagship Secure Platform, which uses virtualization isolation to protect organizations against malware. Protected App provides a mechanism to protect apps from being manipulated or harmed, using hardware-based virtualization to […]

Email security firm Ironscales announced its Themis artificial intelligence powered security assistant technology on Aug. 1, providing organizations with new capabilities to defend against phishing attacks. With Themis, Ironscales is looking to mimic the capabilities and analytical processes of a human security analyst to identify phishing emails that are able to bypass the company’s IronTraps […]

AlienVault is expanding its USM Anywhere platform with new capabilities to get visibility into endpoints. The USM (Unified Security Management) Anywhere update, which AlienVault announced on July 31, enables organizations to get data on endpoints in addition to network devices. USM Anywhere enables organizations to conduct asset inventory, log collection, vulnerability scanning and intrusion detection, […]

FireEye announced the addition of its new MalwareGuard machine learning capability for endpoint threat detection to the FireEye Endpoint Security 4.5 update on July 31. The MalwareGuard feature provides organizations with a new method to autonomously detect and classify malware. MalwareGuard complements behavior-based ExploitGuard, signature-based MalwareProtection and intelligence-based IOC detection capabilities in FireEye Endpoint Security. […]

IBM announced on July 30 that it is adding new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot capabilities to its MaaS360 Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) security platform. The new MaaS360 Assistant is a chatbot that works over both text chat and voice. It enables users to make natural language queries to find emails, discover documents and schedule meetings, among […]

Cofense announced the launch of its new Vision email security product, alongside updated capabilities for its Triage platform, on July 30. Cofense is positioning its combined email security offering as a Phishing-Specific Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platform. Cofense Vision provides visibility capabilities for discovering email threats that are present across an organization. Vision complements Cofense’s Triage […]

Researchers from Graz University in Austria released new research on July 26 detailing how the Spectre CPU speculative execution vulnerability could be used over a remote network. In a 14-page report, the researchers dubbed their attack method NetSpectre, which can enable an attacker to read arbitrary memory over a network. Spectre is the name that […]

Eighty-one percent of U.S. government agency domains have now enabled the DMARC email security standard, according to a new report released on July 26 by email security firm Agari. Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, or DMARC, includes several technical components that are intended to help protect the integrity and authenticity of email. U.S. government […]

Phishing Attack Volume Growing at Most Organizations, Mimecast Reports Email remains one of the primary ways that hackers attack organizations. That was one of Mimecast’s findings in its second annual State of Email Security report. The 21-page report, released on July 24, surveyed 800 IT decision-makers to provide insight into the current landscape of email […]

Oracle announced its new Trust Fabric initiative on July 26, in an effort to boost the security of its identity and access portfolio. The Trust Fabric strategy is all about bringing autonomous security, enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning, to more of Oracle’s portfolio. The Trust Fabric model includes cloud infrastructure security and monitoring […]