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Application security and coding requirements

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Firms need to move from DevOps to DevSecOps, says expert

  In the face of competition, organisations are turning to DevOps to improve efficiency and accelerate innovation, but this is creating new security risks, an industry expert warns

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  C-suite a cyber attack risk, say security chiefs

  Those tasked with running organisations are the most likely group to expose them to a major cyber attack, a poll of UK information security executives shows

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Heartbleed and Shellshock thriving in Docker community

  DevOps has revolutionised IT, but security best practices are being skimmed over, which means old vulnerabilities are finding a new lease of life in Docker

• March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

  DocuTrac medical software is a breach risk, warns Rapid7

  Security researchers have issued a security warning about medical billing and documentation software they say puts patients at risk of data breach

• March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18

  Security researchers demonstrate ransomware attack on robots

  Researchers have carried out a ransomware attack on robots to show that such attacks are possible and should be guarded against

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Mac malware more than doubled in 2017

  Malware targeting Apple Mac computers more than doubled from 2016 to 2017, according to security firm Malwarebytes

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Only half of ransomware payments honoured

  Only half of ransomware victims who pay ransoms to cyber criminals recover their data, a report reveals, pointing to a need for more effective strategies to deal with these attacks

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Security remains an afterthought in DevOps

  Enterprises in Asia are lapping up DevOps but less than one-third have baked security processes into their developments

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Spring Break flaw shows cross-industry collaboration

  A flaw that was discovered in Pivotal’s Spring Framework in September 2017 has only come to light now that users have had a chance to update

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Developers urged to submit apps to NHS Apps Library

  NHS Digital and NHS England have further opened up the newly updated NHS Apps Library, and are asking developers to submit their apps for assessment

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Google calls out Microsoft for failing to fix reported flaw

  Google’s Project Zero has gone public with a Windows 10 flaw that Microsoft claimed to have fixed in its February security update

• February 19, 2018 19 Feb'18

  Botnets shift focus to credential abuse

  Cyber criminals are increasingly using automated attacks that make use of stolen credentials, a security threat report warns

• February 16, 2018 16 Feb'18

  Tech industry signs cyber security charter

  Nine technology organisations have signed a cyber security charter aimed at raising the level of cyber security internationally

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Blockchain to give global LGBT community a louder economic voice

  Blockchain will underpin a global platform that aims to give the LGBT community a more powerful economic voice

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Telegram zero-day exploit is a warning

  The discovery of an exploit of a zero-day vulnerability in the Telegram messaging app demonstrates that not all “secure” apps are automatically safe, security experts have warned