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Scammers spoof UK university domains as part of massive fraud campaign
Marketing Technologies

Scammers spoof UK university domains as part of massive fraud campaign

Action Fraud UK is warning people to be wary of any emails they receive that look like they belong to UK university email addresses.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 19th Jul 2018
Venafi announces new enterprise endpoint management solution
Endpoint Protection

Venafi announces new enterprise endpoint management solution

Organisations must provide mobile devices of all types with secure machine identities that support authentication, encryption and decryption.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Wed, 4th Jul 2018
Four Major Misunderstandings about public key infrastructure (PKI)
DevOps

Four Major Misunderstandings about public key infrastructure (PKI)

Contrary to the popular belief that public key infrastructure (PKI) is obsolete, it's more vital than ever for securing burgeoning cloud and DevOps ecosystems.

By Terrie Anderson • 3 min read • Mon, 21st May 2018
70% of security experts say social media should be government regulated
Cybersecurity

70% of security experts say social media should be government regulated

A survey has found the majority believe social media data collection needs to be regulated, despite having little faith in their governments.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Sat, 28th Apr 2018
Venafi announces business growth and expansion plans
Cybersecurity

Venafi announces business growth and expansion plans

Venafi announces strong 2017 business growth, with over 40% subscription revenue increase and ambitious expansion plans, including expanding executive team.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Mon, 9th Apr 2018
Blunder by Trustico revokes 23,000 website certificates
Cloud Services

Blunder by Trustico revokes 23,000 website certificates

23,000 customers of Trustico recently received an email informing them their website security certificates will be rendered useless within 24 hours.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Sat, 3rd Mar 2018
Assessing the rising threat of encrypted tunnels
Endpoint Protection

Assessing the rising threat of encrypted tunnels

Venafi senior technical manager Nick Hunter takes a look at five key threats posed by encrypted tunnel attacks.

By Nick Hunter • 4 min read • Wed, 21st Feb 2018
INTERVIEW: What Google's decision to distrust Symantec certificates means
DevOps

INTERVIEW: What Google's decision to distrust Symantec certificates means

Last year Chrome announced a formal plan to remove trust from Symantec-issued certificates - Venafi's Walter Goulet discusses the implications.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Wed, 21st Feb 2018
Malicious Reddit clone fooling users into giving away logins
Marketing Technologies

Malicious Reddit clone fooling users into giving away logins

A simple typo is taking users to a seemingly secure Reddit clone that is actually stealing their login details - we have commentary from two experts.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Thu, 8th Feb 2018
Four steps organisations can take to protect against encrypted tunnel attacks
Encryption

Four steps organisations can take to protect against encrypted tunnel attacks

Nefarious actors can use encrypted tunnels to pivot across corporate networks, eavesdrop, route traffic to phishing websites & access sensitive data.

By Terrie Anderson • 4 min read • Mon, 5th Feb 2018
Cyber warfare set to surge in 2018 but expert says Britain is not prepared
Cybersecurity

Cyber warfare set to surge in 2018 but expert says Britain is not prepared

Cyber war has exploded and is now quite literally on our doorstep - despite this an expert claims Britain's defences are severely underfunded.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 31st Jan 2018
Cybersecurity experts opine on confession it's not if but when UK is attacked
Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity experts opine on confession it's not if but when UK is attacked

Ciaran Martin says the UK has been 'fortunate' to avoid an attack that could cause devastating disruption to elections or critical infrastructure.

By Ashton Young • 5 min read • Wed, 24th Jan 2018
Six questions every business needs to consider to measure their cyber security
Data Protection

Six questions every business needs to consider to measure their cyber security

For those of you reading this that don't know your binary from a recursive hole in the ground, it's important to have a little foundational knowledge.

By Danielle Adams • 4 min read • Mon, 22nd Jan 2018
Poor SSH key management an open invitation for malicious threats
Venafi

Poor SSH key management an open invitation for malicious threats

Organisations that use Secure Shell (SSH) technologies and keys are doing a poor job of making sure they are secure, survey finds.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 14th Dec 2017
LinkedIn's outage blunder left users exposed and was 'easily preventable'
Encryption

LinkedIn's outage blunder left users exposed and was 'easily preventable'

LinkedIn went down yesterday in countries across the world due to an SSL certificate expiry, leaving some users' data at risk with no encryption.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 1st Dec 2017
Illicit code signing certificates more valuable than handguns
Cybersecurity

Illicit code signing certificates more valuable than handguns

Venafi has released its findings of a six month investigation into the lucrative sale of digital code signing certificates on the dark web.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Sat, 4th Nov 2017
Experts comment: Behind the Bluetooth 'BlueBorne' zero-days
AI Security

Experts comment: Behind the Bluetooth 'BlueBorne' zero-days

As news spreads of the Bluetooth zero-day that affects more than 5 billion devices, security experts are warning users to use Bluetooth with caution.

By Sara Barker • 4 min read • Thu, 14th Sep 2017
State-sponsored election hacks are acts of cyber warfare - survey
Elections

State-sponsored election hacks are acts of cyber warfare - survey

78% of respondents said they would deem an act as cyber war if a nation-state was behind a successful or attempted hack of another country's election.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Mon, 11th Sep 2017
AU & NZ: An event worse than Y2K, are you protected?
Cybersecurity

AU & NZ: An event worse than Y2K, are you protected?

Australian and NZ businesses are being advised to migrate to SHA-2 before January 1st, when browsers will start rejecting SHA-1 certificates.

By Sam Worthington • 2 min read • Wed, 7th Sep 2016