The Ponemon Institute and Venafi have announced the availability of the first annual report that calculates the costs of failed trust. “We rely on keys and certificates to provide the bedrock of trust for all business and government activities, online and in the cloud. Yet criminals are turning our dependence... |
20 February 2013
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Experts from security firm Malwarebytes have identified a banking malware, Spyware.Banker.FakeSig, which uses valid digital certificates issued by DigiCert in order to increase its chances of bypassing security solutions. The malware, which has been spotted targeting users from Brazil, relies on a certificate issued... |
6 February 2013
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A few days ago, the US Department of Homeland Security revealed that in the last three months of 2012 malware infections were identified in the industrial control systems of two power companies from the United States. The malicious elements made their way onto computers from USB devices.
Experts highlight the fact t... |
17 January 2013
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One of the predictions for 2013 made by Venafi – a provider of enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solutions – is that we’ll likely see an increase in the IT security budgets of organizations.
“All signs indicate that most IT security budgets will grow in 2013 due to the increase... |
21 December 2012
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Microsoft has officially restricted the use of digital certificates signed with private keys that are less than 1024 bits in length. Experts warn companies that rely on Windows operating systems that they need to identify and replace these weak encryption keys to avoid data breaches and critical application outages.
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10 October 2012
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With the release of a study entitled “Preparing for and Responding to Certificate Authority Compromise and Fraudulent Certificate Issuance," the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Venafi are aiming to alert organizations to the risks posed by a security breach that affects certificate aut... |
10 August 2012
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Enterprise key and certificate management solutions provider Venafi has performed an analysis of 450 of the companies present in the Forbes Global 2000 annual ranking. The results of the scans revealed that, on average, around 20% of these firms are susceptible to attacks that leverage malware such as Flame, Duqu or ... |
4 July 2012
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Last week Kaspersky experts came across a piece of malware that was signed with a stolen digital certificate in order to avoid detection. If the security experts concentrated on the malware itself, other companies such as Venafi, the inventor of enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solutions, focused th... |
25 March 2012
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