All these data protection laws are focused in securing personal data of the end users/residents/citizens, and to do that strong norms have to be defined along with huge penalties. One common attribute among them is increasing privacy and imposing penalties.
Microsoft has issued a security advisory- ADV200001 yesterday against a new zero-day vulnerability discovered in the Internet Explorer and it is also being actively exploited in the wild by attackers. Affected versions include Internet Explorer 9, 10, and 11 in Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.
It all began when a hacker named Marc Ewing, started crafting this new distribution of Linux on CDs from his Raleigh, N.C., home. The distribution was named after a Red Hat that Marc’s grandfather offered him from the Cornell University lacrosse cap. Marc was wearing this cap when he was a techie at Carnegie Mellon University.
Bug bounty program is a process of identifying vulnerabilities and bugs within a network or a software, organized by a company or vendor, to outsource the penetration testing and audit procedures, to supplement their internal procedures. Normally, the bug bounty comes with excellent rewards for the best bugs identified.
Compromised USB drives interacting with the corporate network can result in heavy damages to enterprises. System administrators need to define the right USB security management policies to identify known devices, restrict unknown devices and identify the data that is being transferred through using the USB drives
The Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is used for detecting the malicious traffic that enters the corporate network and sends an alert when such activity is observed.
