With IT developing at such a breakneck pace, it almost seems unbelievable that a technology from 26 years ago could be posing a cybersecurity threat. But CISOs and other security professionals know it’s all too believable, with yet another unpatched vulnerability, unnecessary protocol or outdated technology from decades ago causing major problems. This is precisely…
Threat Analysts Michael Villanueva and Toshiyuki Iwata of Trend Micro recently announced that they have uncovered an ITW campaign leveraging the “Online Video” vulnerability we’ve discovered and published last February and which was featured on Bleeping Computer. The campaign takes advantage of a Proof-Of-Concept that was released last October, which embedded a base64-encoded blob into the Online…
An unknown or zero-day exploit is, by its very nature, mysterious. However, thanks to new research, what is now crystal clear is exactly how big a risk these attacks pose to organizations and how badly traditional security measures are failing in the face of them. The Ponemon Institute’s 2018 State of Endpoint Security Risk surveyed…
It’s a simple matter of facts. Zero-day malware has proven to bypass even the most advanced detection mechanisms on the market. That alone should illustrate how defenseless organizations are when trying to protect themselves against one of the most sophisticated threats by using irrelevant tools. Perhaps this mindset is what helped lead us to the…
Over the last few years, the vast majority of businesses have been racing to digitize as quickly as possible. However, there are major players in several industries, mostly financial institutions, critical infrastructure facilities and government institutions that are so concerned with security they’ve created hyper-secure digital business environments, free of all digital file transfers. But…
If you ever worked in an office, then you know that paper is a major part of the daily routine. Be it invoices, orders, letters or any other form of paperwork, businesses cannot do without receiving and sending pieces of paper. Or can they? More and more organizations opted to abandon old-school paper and move…
Ask the average person what an organization needs to consider when choosing a content collaboration platform, and they will spend a second or two deciding if this is some sort of trick question before giving the obvious answers: how well does it work? Is it easy to use? Will it meet the organization’s needs? Ask…
“Progress,” in the computer world, means being able to do more, with fewer resources, more easily. That’s the reason Microsoft announced that it would begin integrating JavaScript capabilities in Excel, upgrading the capabilities of spreadsheet authors to do scripting, which until now required utilizing VBA. According to Microsoft, the upgrade “provides a powerful set of…
In Hollywood, bad PR is better than no PR at all, they say. But in the tech world, bad PR from a competitor just means that they are worried about you. We at Votiro dedicate all our time to solving security problems for our clients – problems that we are proud to say we have…