The cybersecurity skills shortage is a pressing concern for businesses, with the current shortfall estimated to be around 2 million unfilled positions, a number that is expected to rise to around 3.5 million by 2021. If there's an upside to this shortage, it is that...

As many Facebook users discovered this week when a partial outage revealed the hidden image tags attached to users' pictures, images can carry a lot of data that's normally invisible to the human eye. The kind of metadata associated with Facebook and Instagram...

An active EDR solution will protect your network and endpoints against most threats, but no one can claim a security solution is 100% guaranteed to stop every attack. A determined hacker or threat actor that specifically targets an organization will usually have spent...

Since we did our end of year review of macOS malware last December, we've seen an uptick in the number of new macOS malware outbreaks. New variants of old families, updated with fresh tricks as well as some novel malware never-before seen in the wild, both...

Phishing and spearphishing remain the two most widely used vectors for network security breaches, business email compromises and other enterprise security issues. With the number of reported email phishing attacks up for the third quarter in a row, the problem is only...

Last week was a busy week for macOS malware. Along with a Gatekeeper POC being deployed in the wild only days after being published and a hulking 2.5GB cryptominer on the loose stealing resources from those tempted by pirate software, there was also the big reveal of...

Linux admins are being urged to check for and patch three TCP networking vulnerabilities discovered by Netflix researchers. While patches have been made available, testing patches against a full stack of software applications can sometimes be a lengthy process. Given...

Despite the variety and creativity of threat actors, we know that they are restricted by their goals. These include things like persistence, exfiltration, and perhaps most importantly, stealth. Even ransomware, which by definition needs to announce itself in order to...