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Venafi stories - Page 4

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.