November 8, 2022
The Rise of Botnet and DDoS Attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become an ongoing threat for organisations. Using a variety of techniques, a wide range of threat actors from lone hackers, criminal gangs and hacktivists to nation-states are using DDoS attacks to disrupt or disable the performance of target systems.
October 9, 2022
The 7 communities and GITEX 2022
GITEX, the region's largest technology event, attracts several global technology giants to showcase the latest products and trends in the tech world, paving the way for the year 2023. Technology professionals, entrepreneurs, start-ups, students, and members of the general public interested in technology are all actively participating in these 5-day technology heat-ups.
September 30, 2022
Tenable to highlight continuous exposure management capabilities at GITEX 2022
Tenable®, Inc., a Cyber Exposure Management company, will exhibit at GITEX Global, which will take place from October 10 to 14, 2022 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. Tenable will demonstrate its powerful combination of continuous exposure management solutions for the modern attack surface at the event.
September 23, 2022
Trellix launches advanced research center
Trellix, a cybersecurity company that is delivering the future of extended detection and response (XDR), has announced the creation of the Trellix Advanced Research Center to advance global threat intelligence.
September 21, 2022
Veeam appoints Rick Jackson as Chief Marketing Officer
Veeam® Software, a provider of backup, recovery, and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection, announced today the appointment of Rick Jackson as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Jackson is a seasoned marketing executive who has previously served as the chief marketing officer at Qlik, Rackspace, and VMware
September 20, 2022
Abu Dhabi Digital Authority launches campaign to boost cybersecurity awareness
The Department of Government Support, represented by the Abu Dhabi Digital Authority (ADDA), announced the launch of a Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign in collaboration with the Cyber Security Council, as part of its efforts to promote a cybersecurity culture among Abu Dhabi Government employees and members of society in general. This campaign is one of several initiatives being worked on by ADDA as part of the pillars and objectives of the Abu Dhabi Government cybersecurity strategy
September 20, 2022
Understanding and Preventing the Log4j Exploit and Botnets
Of all the security issues that have appeared over the last few years, none has had the impact of the Log4j exploit. Also called the Log4Shell, it was reported to the developers, the Apache Software Foundation, on 24 November, 2021, by the Chinese tech giant Alibaba and it took two weeks to develop and release a fix. The existence of the Log4j exploit was first publicly published in a tweet by Chen Zhaojun, a cyber security researcher with the Alibaba Cloud Security team on December 9, 2021