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Tag Archives: cyber security
How Threat Intelligence Sharing can Help Deal with Cyber Security Challenges (Tech Crunch)
Mistrust Between Private, Public Sectors a Bottleneck to Combating Cyber Crime: Experts (New Times)
The rising incidents of cybercrime could be easily checked if the private and public sectors learnt to trust each other and share relevant information regarding combating the vice,... More
Study: IoT Threats to See Cyber Security Funding Jump
By Chris Tribbey The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) will also resulting in the rise of cyber threats, and that means more venture funding in the world of cyber security, a... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, May 22, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates 7-Zip: 7-Zip.org has released version 16.01 (32-bit and 64-bit). Updates are available from 7-Zip’s website. Apple iOS: Apple has released versio... More
NTIA: Consumer Security Concerns Having Economic Impact
By Chris Tribbey A new report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) sees nearly 20% of American internet homes — or 19 million households ... More
Educating C-Suites, Corporate Boards on Security Risks (SC Magazine)
Security trainer Jim Manico from Anahola, Hawaii-based Manicode Security recently was about to teach a class of developers. First to speak was the multibillion-dollar firm's CEO: �... More
How Threat Intelligence Sharing Can Help Deal With Cyber Security Challenges (TechCrunch)
In the ever-shifting landscape of cyberthreats and attacks, having access to timely information and intelligence is vital and can make a big difference in protecting organizations ... More
Pulitzer Winner Kaplan to Keynote May 25 HITS Conference
By Chris Tribbey When Fred Kaplan takes the stage May 25 in Los Angeles at “Holly-wired: Where IT and Entertainment Meet,” he’ll argue that — for purposes of helping to... More
Changing Consumer-Technology Interactions: The Rise Of Cyber Security, Data Privacy (Forbes)
As high-profile data breaches become more frequent — think Target, Ashley Madison and even Anthem (the second-largest health insurer in the U.S.) — consumers are starting to ca... More
Facebook’s Plan to Train a New Generation of Cyber Security Pros (CS Monitor)
Facebook likes hackers. Not the kind that break into its accounts, but the ethical kind that can find and fix software vulnerabilities that plague massive tech companies. In fac... More
IBM’s Watson to Tackle Cybercrime
IBM Security has announced Watson for Cyber Security, a new cloud-based version of the company's cognitive technology trained on the language of security as part of a year-long re... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, May 15, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates 7-Zip: 7-Zip.org has released version 16.00 (32-bit and 64-bit). Updates are available from 7-Zip’s website. Adobe Flash Player: Adobe has releas... More
April 2016 was the Worst Month for Ransomware on Record in the U.S. (Enigma Software)
Ransomware in the US made up a bigger chunk of such threats in April than any other month on record. That's according to data released today by ESG, makers of the anti-malware prog... More
The 10 Worst Vulnerabilities of The Last 10 Years (Dark Reading)
Security vulnerabilities are a fact of life in modern software. Nearly every product from every vendor has vulnerabilities, and some of them more so than others. Take Microso... More
Microsoft Publishes Security Intelligence Report, Including Cloud Data for the First Time (Neowin)
Microsoft has published its latest biannual Security Intelligence Report (SIR), covering the second half of 2015. The SIR "analyzes the threat landscape of exploits, vulnerabilitie... More
What’s Next For Network Security (Dark Reading)
Network security as we know it ultimately will operate hand in hand with software-defined networking (SDN) and virtualization, security experts here said. SDN could be a game-ch... More
Microsoft to Retire Support for SHA1 Certificates in the Next 4 Months (ARS Technica)
Microsoft plans to retire support for TLS certificates signed by the SHA1 hashing algorithm in the next four months, an acceleration brought on by new research showing it was even ... More
Aging and Bloated OpenSSL is Purged of Two High-Severity Bugs (ARS Technica)
Maintainers of the OpenSSL cryptographic library have patched high-severity holes that could make it possible for attackers to decrypt login credentials or execute malicious code o... More
Criminals Peddling Affordable AlphaLocker Ransomware (Threat Post)
It’s rare a week goes by now without a new strain of ransomware making headlines. Researchers described one of the latest earlier this week, a relatively affordable ransomware-as... More
Top U.S. Computer Science Undergrad Programs Flunk Cybersecurity (Forbes)
A new study out from CloudPassage — a cloud security firm based in San Francisco — concludes that the American higher-education system is failing at preparing students for care... More