Distil Networks, Inc., the global leader in bot detection and mitigation, and Verizon Digital Media Services, the next-generation digital media platform, today announce a partners... More
Tag Archives: Cybersecurity
Verizon Digital Media Services, Distil Networks Partner to Provide Bot Detection, Mitigation Solutions (CDSA)
NSS Labs Names Brvenik CTO
Cybersecurity research and advisory company NSS Labs has named Jason Brvenik as its new CTO, bringing the security and systems design veteran over from Cisco. Most recently serv... More
Cybersecurity: The Threat Continues (CTA)
Cybersecurity threats and privacy invasion are daily news with Snowden, Assange, WikiLeaks and foreign hackers breaking into government, political, health, banking and other sites.... More
A Looming Cybersecurity Crisis and Why Opportunity Youth are the Solution (Forbes)
Cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructure and the theft of millions of records containing personally identifiable information have indicated that there are serious vulnerabiliti... More
The Sorry State Of Cybersecurity Awareness Training (Dark Reading)
In today's dangerous cyberworld, corporations often say that cybersecurity is now a top priority for them, especially after all the massive data breaches we've been hearing about o... More
Google Reveals Internal Cloud Security Measures (The Register)
Google has published a Infrastructure Security Design Overview that explains how it secures the cloud it uses for its own operations and for public cloud services. Revealed la... More
Cybersecurity Grabs the Big Data Spotlight (Datanami)
Signs point to a growing awareness of the vulnerability of computer systems, storage, and networks, among general consumers as well as technology leaders charged with ensuring the ... More
Dell’s Hansen: It’s Imperative That Every Company Has Cybersecurity Plan
LAS VEGAS -- It’s more important than ever for each company to have an effective cybersecurity strategy in place, after a tumultuous year that included the largest publicly-discl... More
Report: Potential $5M in Ad Fraud Daily from ‘Methbot’ (Krebs on Security)
New research suggests that an elaborate cybercrime ring is responsible for stealing between $3 million and $5 million worth of revenue from online publishers and video advertising ... More
Congressional Report Sides with Apple on Encryption Debate (PC World)
The U.S. is better off supporting strong encryption that trying to weaken it, according to a new congressional report that stands at odds with the FBI’s push to install backdoors... More
Inside The Vulnerability Disclosure Ecosystem (Dark Reading)
A new National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)-led study of how security researchers and software vendors handle and view vulnerability disclosure provides... More
Here is Your Cybersecurity Budget. Spend It Wisely (ITSP Magazine)
I know, in reading the headline it seems obvious doesn’t it? But that’s just it. Sometimes the obvious isn’t so obvious. It seems that many businesses believe they are protec... More
‘Time’ Person of the Year Runner-Up: Hackers (Time)
Hackers have a bad name everywhere, it seems, except in Silicon Valley, founded as it was on the virtues of creatively overcoming technical limits by any means. This tradition prod... More
Before You Pay that Ransomware Demand … (Krebs on Security)
A decade ago, if a desktop computer got infected with malware the chief symptom probably was an intrusive browser toolbar of some kind. Five years ago you were more likely to get w... More
Playing the Blame Game: Breaking Down Cybersecurity Attribution (HelpNetSecutiry)
Attributing the adversary behind a cyber attack ranks as perhaps the hardest challenge in all of cyber security, well beyond securing networks from intrusions, for the simple reaso... More
Interrupting Ransomware: Learning From Lockheed (NSS Labs)
The threat landscape is ever expanding. In the past, threats were limited to minor attacks that would cause a small amount of damage to an organization. As time has progressed, far... More
Protecting Your Intellectual Property in the Digital Society (ITSP)
There are 318.9 million people in the United States and their collective creativity is one of the most economically beneficial assets in the country. That collective creativity,... More
ISE’s Harrington: Beware IoT ‘Stepping Stone’ Attacks (Tech Central)
A recent webinar hosted by The Security Ledger entitled: “Who Let the IoT in?: Finding and securing wireless devices in your environment,” was designed to offer some advance ... More
Cybersecurity Skills Gap: It’s Big and It’s Bad for Security (We Live Security)
The cybersecurity skills gap, defined as a shortage of qualified people needed to fill open positions in IT security, is a phenomenon that I have researched quite extensively this ... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch, Dec. 18, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates Adobe Flash Player: Adobe has released version 24.0.0.186. Updates are available from Adobe’s website. Apple iOS: Apple has released updates f... More