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Outpost24 has acquired Blueliv, one of the world's leading cyber threat intelligence companies which will create one of the largest cybersecurity providers in Europe. The objective: to provide the most advanced threat landscape monitoring solution to help businesses identify threats targeting their organizations and dramatically reduce risk exposure. “It has been a difficult 18 months as many organizations struggled to mitigate the growing number of vulnerabilities and attacks coming from all directions, along with a...

Outpost24 has announced the acquisition of Blueliv, a leading cyber threat intelligence company from Spain. This combination will create one of the largest cybersecurity providers in Europe and provide the most advanced threat landscape monitoring solution. The objective: to help businesses identify threats targeting their organizations and dramatically reduce risk exposure. “It has been a difficult 18 months as many organizations struggled to mitigate the growing number of vulnerabilities and attacks coming from all directions, along with...

Researchers at Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform provider, have disclosed the discovery of an authentication bypass vulnerability in Schneider Electric’s Modicon programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that can lead to remote-code-execution (RCE). The vulnerability, dubbed Modipwn, allows for a complete takeover of impacted devices by leveraging the UMAS protocol, and impacts Modicon M340, M580 and other models from the Modicon series. Millions of devices use these PLCs and are now deemed to be at...

Of the 73% of security professionals with responsibility for the security of public cloud who operate in a multi-cloud environment, 98% think these more complex environments pose greater security challenges, a survey conducted for Tripwire by Dimensional Research reveals.   Organizations have a wide range of reasons for going multi-cloud, including meeting varying business needs, running certain applications, distributing risk, taking advantage of cost savings, and to provide redundancy in the event of downtime. In the industrial space specifically,...

The sixth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards are now open for nominations. This is a chance to celebrate the people working on the frontlines to fight against cyber threats, no matter if they work in the classroom, law enforcement or corporate organisations. This year sees three new categories introduced, which will be for Business Support Standout, HR Superstar and Remote Work Guru.    “We are passionate about getting the community together and recognising the...

Europe’s Top Insurance Providers have been found to have security weaknesses within their web application architecture, according to the latest research by Outpost24. The 2021 Web Application Security for Insurers Report analysed the web applications of the top 10 European insurance providers, as listed by ADV Rating, and found that every insurer had some degree of vulnerability or security weakness. In fact, it was discovered that the top EU insurers run a total of 7,611 internet exposed web applications over 1,920 domains, with 3% of them considered suspicious (e.g. testing...

Armis, a unified asset visibility and security platform provider, has today released results from a survey that looked at the UK's attitude towards cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. The study, carried out by Censuswide*, found that nearly 9 in 10 (87%) believe that cyberattacks on critical services, such as oil suppliers, healthcare services, police departments or water treatment facilities, could have a major impact on everyday life. When it comes to increasing protection against cyberattacks on...

Shortly after hitting Colonial Pipeline, Darkside developers announced they would be closing operations. Nevertheless, researchers at AT&T Alien Labs have observed evidence that the group has completed a Linux version of its malware that is targeting ESXi servers hosting VMware virtual machines. To this point, the authors announced the Darkside 2.0 version with Linux capabilities.   "Linux and UNIX servers have always been a preferred option for servers and data centers, likely due to the...

Recent research from security and privacy comparison and advice website Comparitech.com, which has looked at children's apps available through Google Play  has found that 1 in 5 breach COPPA rules. Even more worrying is that half of the apps that violate the rules have received a "teacher-approved" badge. COPPA, imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), enforces a number of requirements on operators of websites or online services that are aimed at under 13 year...

Mobile security specialists, Lookout Inc. has announced it now has an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to provide endpoint-to-cloud security to organisations around the world. The new partnership will see Lookout deliver BeyondCorp Alliance product integrations and debuted its Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security solution on Google Cloud Marketplace. Lookout will reportedly bring additional choice of security capabilities for customers on Google Workspace, helping them mitigate the risk of endpoints compromising corporate data. In early 2019,...