This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of HP MPS. All opinions are 100% mine. HP made a very clever series of commercials called 'The Wolf'. The wolf is the attacker of a corporate enterprise, the sheep. We get to hear from the attacker as he compromises the printers, leaps to the computers and servers to get data about clients, employees, and everything else. … [Read more...]
Pwn2Own 2017 results
As the second year under Trend Micro's ownership, the popular hacking event Pwn2Own is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. The targets this year include VMware Workstation, Microsoft Hyper-V, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash in Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari. There are also demonstrations of local Escalation of Privilege bugs against Windows, … [Read more...]
Pre-order study resources for CompTIA’s new CyberSecurity Analyst CSA+ certificate
CompTIA launched a new certification for those in cybersecurity called CSA+. It builds upon the Security+ certificate with a track towards the CASP (CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner) certificate. One strength of CompTIA certificates are that they are vendor neutral so they can indicate that an IT Professional is prepared no matter what products an organization … [Read more...]
First release since the AVG acquisition, Avast 2017 available
Avast 2017 was released today for the free and paid markets. Avast Free Antivirus, Avast Pro Antivirus, Avast Internet Security and Avast Premier were all updated with new features to improve performance and security. This is the company's first release since they acquired AVG last year. The features worth highlighting include: Behavior Shield - a ransomware protection … [Read more...]
AV-Test announces 2016 Endpoint Protection awards; Gartner updates antivirus Magic Quadrant
AV-Test, an independent institute that evaluates antivirus products, has awarded their 2016 best product awards. Fifteen awards were presented across different categories such as Protection, Performance, Usability, Repair, and Android Security. The awards are based on the laboratory tests performed on the products throughout 2016. You can learn more about the awards and … [Read more...]