Dozens of Israel’s largest companies agree: to prevent viruses outbreaks, make sure they never get to users in the first place. All you need to know about malware, according to Itay Glick, CEO of Israeli cyber-security start-up Votiro, is that 91% of it is delivered by email or through downloads. “Hackers and crackers have had overwhelming success by…
Security providers are developing technology to strip out, or render unusable, any potential code in popular file formats. Security firms have typically taken one of two approaches to protecting their customers: detect bad code and block it, or validate wanted applications and allow them to run. Yet determining whether a file, script, or executable binary is malicious…
Free cloud based sanitization service from Votiro enables users to upload suspicious files to the cloud for analysis. Votiro today announced that the company has launched a free cloud-based file sanitization service. This new service from Votiro analyzes individual files for the presence of malicious code and quickly facilitates the neutralization of zero-day exploits and the…
Microsoft’s Object Linking Exchange (OLE) protocol is nearing its 30th birthday – but hackers are still finding major vulnerabilities that could seriously compromise user security. The latest exploit saw the company issue a new patch to protect a vulnerability involving Rich Text messages with embedded OLE objects in Outlook. The takeaway: Whenever and however a…
Does your organization use Box? Storing and managing files couldn’t be easier with a cloud-based file sharing platform like Box. In just a few clicks, your employees can upload and download files from any device or location. However, with this freedom comes an increased security risk. The 2018 Cloud Security Report found that 9 out…