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GUEST OPINION by Walter Manyati, Director ANZ for Qualys: As the threat of ransomware attacks continues to escalate, the crippling of high-profile organisations frequently shines the spotlight on this crisis. Yet, it’s not hard to see why – ransomware is such a lucrative business model for cybercriminals.

GUEST OPINION by Walter Manyati, Director ANZ for Qualys: As the threat of ransomware attacks continues to escalate, the crippling of high-profile organisations frequently shines the spotlight on this crisis. Yet, it’s not hard to see why – ransomware is such a lucrative business model for cybercriminals.

Security firm Qualys has become the latest to be affected by a breach of a file transfer system manufactured by the firm Accellion, the company says.

Security control solutions provider Forescout Technologies has joined a newly established alliance designed to provide a technical and organisational framework for safe and secure operational technology (OT).

Reports that millions of servers running the mail transport agent Exim are being attacked through a recently announced vulnerability are unreliable, a senior official from Qualys, the company that discovered the vulnerability, says.

Microsoft has issued patches for 48 vulnerabilities in Windows and other products as part of its usual monthly security update, but did not fix a zero-day flaw known as SMBloris that was disclosed to the company in June.

Cloud security provider Qualys has released details of a vulnerability related to memory management in most *NIX-like operating systems.

Network monitoring vendor Tenable Network Security has appointed Sean Molloy as vice president of cloud services