The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) identified ransomware as one of 2016’s top threats, but a relatively small number of attacks were reported.
Cisco patched three vulnerabilities in three products this week that if exploited, could have resulted in a denial of service, crash and in some instances, arbitrary and remote code execution.
Check Point has toned down its initial estimates on the number of Fireball malware infections from 250 million machines and 20 percent of corporate networks to 40 million computers.
Researchers at CyberArk have developed a bypass for Windows PatchGuard that leverages Intel’s Processor Trace (Intel PT) technology to execute code at the kernel.
Security experts, vendors, business and the NSA are developing a standardized language that rather than autonomously understands threats, acts on them.