eSecurityPlanet Staff

By Chad Whalen, Fortinet More businesses than ever are moving their business operations – in part or in whole – to the cloud. An IDG Enterprise study found 69 percent of businesses have at least one application or a portion of their computing infrastructure in the cloud as of 2014 and another 18 percent are […]

By Stanislav Breslavskyi and Nazar Tymoshyk, SoftServe Sooner or later, any expert involved in software or computer systems development and maintenance processes will face security questions. To find solutions, they’ll need security tools. Let’s define the types of security tools and their roles in different kind of projects and development stages. Picking the right tool […]

Many organizations must comply with regulations such as HIPAA, and the numbers are growing, fueled by constantly evolving legislation that creates new rules, requirements and auditing procedures. Security compliance requirements are often seen as an unnecessary burden that was legislated into existence to protect external entities. However, properly enforced compliance policies can protect organizations from a […]

By Nazar Tymoshyk and Stanislav Breslavskyi The growing list of recent red-letter security vulnerabilities—Beast, Heartbleed, Shellshock—was recently extended with a new threat, POODLE. No matter how fluffy your associations with this word are, the term sends shivers down the spine of those who use SSLv3 protocol. POODLE stands for Padding Oracle on Downgraded Legacy Encryption, […]

By Nazar Tymoshyk, SoftServe For developers and end users of today’s software,?security is a matter of mounting concern, regardless of whether it is private or business data that needs protection. Many people view security exclusively in black and white: Either a system is damaged, or it is safe and sound. However, digging a bit deeper […]

By Fred Touchette, AppRiver In today’s security landscape, email threats are one of the most common strategies utilized among cyber criminals. Much of the early spam traffic was annoying and essentially amounted to junk mail that consumed you and your company’s time. However, it wasn’t long before cyber criminals began using such messages to deliver […]

By Nazar Tymoshyk, SoftServe In today’s technology environment, the question is no longer if your business is vulnerable to cyber security threats or may be attacked someday. The question is when, and will you be prepared. Widespread use of cloud computing, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and smart devices leave businesses of all types and scales more vulnerable […]

Determining the return on investment for enterprise software is not always complicated. It’s fairly easy to determine the savings generated by using applications that remove time and/or manual steps from routine business processes. Calculating ROI for mobile device management solutions can be tricky, though, because MDM involves benefits that may not be easy to quantify. […]

  Historically, the push for IT changes came from top-level executives and organizations provided employees with high-end computers that were well beyond the technology people had in their homes. Laptops are a great example of this – they entered the world in a top-down, calculated and directed fashion, which in turn put them under the […]

Nude photos of “Glee” star Heather Morris were recently posted online. “The naked pictures are alleged to have been stolen by hackers from the 25-year-old actress’s mobile phone,” writes Sophos’ Graham Cluley. “In November 2011, Christopher Chaney of Florida pleaded not guilty to hacking into the email and cellphones of some 50 people, including Scarlett […]

The porn site Digital Playground was recently hacked by The Consortium, exposing 72,794 customers’ user names, e-mail addresses and passwords, as well as more than 44,000 credit card numbers. “They did not dump the 44,663 credit card numbers that they claim to have acquired, but note that card numbers, card expiration date, cvv and all […]

A new botnet coded by TheGrimReap3r is currently nearing completion, and will soon be offered for sale on hacking forums for $8,000. “THOR does not use a central [command and control server],” Infosecurity reports. “It has a decentralized architecture based on peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. P2P botnets are the latest innovation in the battle between whitehat […]