The threat landscape continues to evolve—individual and state-backed hackers and agencies become increasingly emboldened to compromise websites and servers, steal CPU cycles for cryptocurrency mining, embark on social engineering efforts to find backdoors, and sway public opinion through fake news and other measures. zvelo provides the most advanced URL/IP categorization database for web filtering, whitelists and blacklists, and residential and business protections against bad actors and malicious online behavior. Explore zvelo’s Cybersecurity and threat intelligence data feeds for industry leading malicious and phishing exploit detection and the most advanced cyber threat intelligence available to OEMs and device manufacturers.

zvelo Urges Partners (and everyone) to Update their SSL Certificates to SHA-2

After December 31, 2015, SSL certificates that use the SHA-1 hash algorithm for their signature will be declared “technology non grata” on the modern Internet. It’s important to note that this is an industry-wide change and not specific to just zvelo’s products. As a result, beginning January 1, 2016, all partners (and everyone in general) will need to support SHA-2 SSL signed certificates in order to download updates and patches for all of zvelo’s offerings.

EU-US Privacy Shield: New Framework for Translatlantic Data

A new US/EU arrangement puts stronger regulations on companies in the U.S. to protect the personal data of Europeans and stronger monitoring and enforcement by the U.S. A few highlights that new arrangement will include: Strong obligations on companies handling Europeans’ personal data and robust enforcement. U.S. companies wishing to import personal data from Europe…

The Magnitude of the Breach

The Magnitude of the Breach On Thursday, June 4, it was announced that there was a large breach of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) of the federal government. The Chinese are fingered in the breach, in which about 4 million people’s records were lost in the attack, and the Chinese government denied being responsible,…