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Tag Archives: Cybersecurity
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch, Dec. 18, 2016 (Citadel Information Group)
IBM Amps Up Watson Cybersecurity Experiences (CIO)
Watson has recruited enterprises from auto, banking and insurance realms to help research and develop new security applications that will use the systems natural language and machi... More
CPS Keynote: No Such Thing as Hackers Today
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — It may sound like lunacy to those who’ve experienced a cyber security breach, but according to famed “spy-catcher” Eric O’Neill, a cybersecurity ... More
Hollywood Preps for Dec. 7 CDSA Content Protection Summit
Every year, the CDSA Content Protection Summit (CPS_ brings together Hollywood’s top cybersecurity, content protection and anti-piracy experts, with a full-day program featuring ... More
Cybersecurity Profession Has a Clear Career Path … Just Kidding (ITSP)
Do you know what your career path as a cybersecurity professional is? Have you ever really thought about that? Most don’t, as was reported in a recent study jointly pub... More
‘Avalanche’ Global Fraud Ring Dismantled (Krebs on Security)
In what’s being billed as an unprecedented global law enforcement response to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe today say they�... More
IT, Cyber Challenges Loom for Next Administration (FCW)
Beyond the high-profile cybersecurity issues, agency officials said IT and how it is used to fulfill missions will be the key to making sure the coming administration can unlock te... More
International Cybersecurity Policing Tackled at Dec. 7 Content Protection Summit
The U.S.-based International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) — the worldwide professional association for law enforcement — has spent 120-plus years being the collective... More
What to Expect in an Online Cybersecurity Degree Program (U.S. News)
Between a full-time job as a software engineer and raising a young child, Carlos Villegas knew that pursuing a master's degree in cybersecurity wouldn't be easy. Tha... More
How AI Will Transform Cybersecurity (VentureBeat)
Securing your digital assets is a clear need for any business and individual, whether you are looking to protect your personal photos, your company’s intellectual property, your ... More
You’d Likely Give Up Sex for Cybersecurity, Poll Finds (CNET)
Could you become, as Jerry Seinfeld put it, "master of your domain" to save your web domains? In a classic "Seinfeld" episode, Jerry and his friends each bet a hundred bucks in... More
The Encryption Conundrum: Should Tech Compromise or Double Down? (The Register)
Silicon Valley should work with the US government in Washington to arrive at a solution that gives law enforcement access to encrypted comms, but that respects individual privacy. ... More
Trump Presidency Fuels Heated Encryption Debate (CNET)
Cindy Cohn says she's tired of having the same conversation about encryption. That might be why Cohn, the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, made frank ... More
Congress Explores How to Bolster IoT Cybersecurity (BankInfoSecurity)
What's needed to bolster the security of internet of things devices to help prevent cyberattacks, such as the October botnet-driven distributed denial-of-service attack on web se... More
IT Pros Losing Steam Against Cybercrime (ITProPortal)
Organisations are losing the war against cybercriminals, and their cybersecurity efforts are slowly waning. This is according to a new report by Resilient (an IBM company) and the ... More
China’s Internet Controls Will Get Stricter, to Dismay of Foreign Business (N.Y. Times)
In August, business groups around the world petitioned China to rethink a proposed cybersecurity law that they said would hurt foreign companies and further separate the country fr... More
HBO Chief Security Officer to Keynote HITS N.Y.C.
HITS returns to New York City on Nov. 8 at the Microsoft Technology Center in Midtown Manhattan with a morning conference program from 9 a.m. to noon. This year’s HITS N.Y.C... More
Why Poor Cyber Hygiene Invites Risk (Dark Reading)
Organizations around the world are implementing mobility, cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), business intelligence, and social media technologies at breakneck speeds in... More
Forget ‘Hackers in Hoodies,’ Cybercriminals are the New Mafia (Wired)
Forget the cliché of lonely figures in hoodies crouched over laptops, feverishly bashing out lines of code. Online crime is a lucrative business, and hackers are the new Mafia. ... More
Spreading the DDoS Disease and Selling the Cure (Krebs on Security)
Earlier this month a hacker released the source code for Mirai, a malware strain that was used to launch a historically large 620 Gbps denial-of-service attack against this si... More