Venafi stories - Page 4
Blunder by Trustico revokes 23,000 website certificates
Sat, 3rd Mar 2018
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cloud services
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symantec
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websites
23,000 customers of Trustico recently received an email informing them their website security certificates will be rendered useless within 24 hours.
Assessing the rising threat of encrypted tunnels
Wed, 21st Feb 2018
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endpoint protection
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encryption
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edr
Venafi senior technical manager Nick Hunter takes a look at five key threats posed by encrypted tunnel attacks.
INTERVIEW: What Google’s decision to distrust Symantec certificates means
Wed, 21st Feb 2018
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devops
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apm
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cybersecurity
Last year Chrome announced a formal plan to remove trust from Symantec-issued certificates - Venafi's Walter Goulet discusses the implications.
Malicious Reddit clone fooling users into giving away logins
Thu, 8th Feb 2018
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martech
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cybersecurity
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software development
A simple typo is taking users to a seemingly secure Reddit clone that is actually stealing their login details - we have commentary from two experts.
Four steps organisations can take to protect against encrypted tunnel attacks
Mon, 5th Feb 2018
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encryption
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phishing
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email security
Nefarious actors can use encrypted tunnels to pivot across corporate networks, eavesdrop, route traffic to phishing websites & access sensitive data.
Cyber warfare set to surge in 2018 but expert says Britain is not prepared
Wed, 31st Jan 2018
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cybersecurity
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government
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venafi
Cyber war has exploded and is now quite literally on our doorstep - despite this an expert claims Britain's defences are severely underfunded.
Cybersecurity experts opine on confession it’s not if but when UK is attacked
Wed, 24th Jan 2018
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cybersecurity
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venafi
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industry experts
Ciaran Martin says the UK has been ‘fortunate’ to avoid an attack that could cause devastating disruption to elections or critical infrastructure.
Six questions every business needs to consider to measure their cyber security
Mon, 22nd Jan 2018
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data protection
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encryption
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venafi
For those of you reading this that don’t know your binary from a recursive hole in the ground, it’s important to have a little foundational knowledge.
Poor SSH key management an open invitation for malicious threats
Thu, 14th Dec 2017
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venafi
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key management
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identity governance
Organisations that use Secure Shell (SSH) technologies and keys are doing a poor job of making sure they are secure, survey finds.
LinkedIn’s outage blunder left users exposed and was ‘easily preventable’
Fri, 1st Dec 2017
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encryption
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martech
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breach prevention
LinkedIn went down yesterday in countries across the world due to an SSL certificate expiry, leaving some users' data at risk with no encryption.
Illicit code signing certificates more valuable than handguns
Sat, 4th Nov 2017
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cybersecurity
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venafi
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dark web
Venafi has released its findings of a six month investigation into the lucrative sale of digital code signing certificates on the dark web.
Experts comment: Behind the Bluetooth 'BlueBorne' zero-days
Thu, 14th Sep 2017
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ai security
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ai
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bluetooth
As news spreads of the Bluetooth zero-day that affects more than 5 billion devices, security experts are warning users to use Bluetooth with caution.
State-sponsored election hacks are acts of cyber warfare - survey
Mon, 11th Sep 2017
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elections
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venafi
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security vulnerabilities
78% of respondents said they would deem an act as cyber war if a nation-state was behind a successful or attempted hack of another country’s election.
AU & NZ: An event worse than Y2K, are you protected?
Wed, 7th Sep 2016
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cybersecurity
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venafi
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sha-1
Australian and NZ businesses are being advised to migrate to SHA-2 before January 1st, when browsers will start rejecting SHA-1 certificates.
Strong growth spurs expansion for Nextgen
Wed, 20th May 2015
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storage
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oracle
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nextgen distribution
Driven by sturdy growth, Nextgen Distribution plans to double both staff and revenue, boosting its footprint in New Zealand's tech sector.