Security

Face-off: Cisco vs. Fortinet for enterprise firewalls

Microsoft fixes 45 flaws, including three actively exploited vulnerabilities

Microsoft Patch Tuesday includes fixes for critical flaws in IE, Edge, Office, Windows and .NET

Hacked Dallas sirens get extra encryption to fend off future attacks

The hack may have been a simple ‘replay attack’ of siren activation test signal

Can AI and ML slay the healthcare ransomware dragon?

Properly applied, artificial intelligence and machine learning could “crush” the ransomware pandemic, especially in the health sector.

Fortinet upgrades for better cloud, SD-WAN protection

Enhancements come to Fortinet Security Fabric, addition of FortiCASB

DNS record will help prevent unauthorized SSL certificates

Certificate authorities will be required to honor a new DNS record that specifies who is authorized to issue certificates for a domain

Dridex gang uses unpatched Microsoft Word exploit to target millions

An email spam campaign distributed malicious Word documents that exploited an unpatched flaw to install the Dridex banking trojan

When phone systems attack

Weaknesses in our nation's 911 network continue to expose themselves, mostly by accident. The latest incident was with the 911 system in Amarillo, Texas.

US dismantles Kelihos botnet after Russian hacker’s arrest

Peter Levashov has been accused of running the Kelihos botnet, according to the U.S.

Latest Shadow Brokers exploit dump poses little threat

The leak reveals old exploits but also exposes supposed NSA targets, implants, and techniques