Feud heats up over chip cards, FBI warning
A #national retail federation attorney said Wednesday that an updated #fbi #warning on chip card vulnerabilities waters down the need for #pin #security. The FBI on Friday posted a revised warning...
View ArticleThe technocracy is over – innovation is here, plan your security accordingly
Information technology (IT) is going through an age of “#technocracy” decline. Innovations in the IT sector have made way for various platforms that can be leveraged to support employees’ workflows...
View ArticleFBI takes down alert on chip credit cards after bankers complain
The #fbi posted an online advisory about vulnerabilities with new #chip-enabled credit cards, but then removed the message on Friday, less than a day later, following concerns from U.S. bankers that...
View ArticleNIST drafts guidelines to enhance trust in email
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (#nist) has published a draft document for comment, in order to tackle two main threats to email services: #phishing Leaking confidential information...
View ArticleAPT Research Discourse at Virus Bulletin 2015
#topics arising at the #conference that were most interesting included APT research and threat intelligence, Linux (and embedded) as a targeted platform in much higher prevalence, and Patrick Wardle’s...
View ArticleIs your board ready for a security incident?
Businesses suffered nearly 43 million known security incidents in 2014. This increased 48% compared with 2013 and equals some 117,000 attacks daily. And still, many boards and #executives don’t have...
View ArticleThree Security Best Practices for the Modern Era
#october is National #cyber security Awareness Month (#ncsam), making it the perfect time to revamp outdated #policies and procedures that may be keeping your security stuck in the 20th century. Here...
View ArticleRetailers who missed chip card deadline eye lawsuit
U.S. #retailers are contemplating lawsuits against #banks and credit card companies over the slow #rollout of chip-based card technology and the possible financial #liability merchants began facing...
View ArticleThe ‘Remediation Gap:’ A 4-Month Invitation To Attack
#organizations set out the welcome mat for cyber attackers by taking an average of #120 days to patch flaws. As impactful as targeted attacks can be on organizations when they hit the mark,...
View ArticleSoftware Defined Perimeter – a better, virtual security firewall
#software defined perimeter (#sdp) is a new security approach currently standardized by the #cloud security alliance (#csa). The concept is basically offering an air-gapped network – in a virtual...
View Article4 IoT Cybersecurity Issues You Never Thought About
Call it a physical and cyber-security #challenge. Innovators and industry experts in Boston Tuesday for the #iot Security 2015 conference brainstormed about some of the Internet of Thing’s most...
View ArticleNIST will award $3.6 million to projects designed to improve cybersecurity
The U.S. #department of commerce‘s National Institute of Standards and Technology (#nist) will award $3.6 million for three #pilot projects designed to make #online transactions more secure and...
View ArticleXi: ‘China is ready’ for cyber crime dialogue
Chinese President #xi jinping is prepared to start a “high-level” cyber-security #dialogue with the United States. “China is ready to set up a high-level joint dialogue mechanism with the United States...
View ArticleCSO Survival Guide: Securing DevOps
In the past few years, #devops has moved from a niche approach to application development to an #enterprise #strategy that stands front and center in organizations today. And the move to DevOps is...
View ArticleBypass Developed for Microsoft Memory Protection, Control Flow Guard
Introduced in #windows 8.1 Update 3 and Windows 10, #control flow guard was #microsoft’s latest antidote to #memory-corruption #attacks. The technology was meant to stand up to attacks that had long...
View ArticleCyber risk still poorly communicated to C-suite executives
#cyber risk continues to be poorly communicated to C-suite executives, according to #auriga consulting. The monopolization of the risk management function by IT and security consultants and poor...
View Article7 security and privacy concerns at the polls
A recent #poll by Wakefield Research delved into the psyche of the American voter asking them many questions about who will lead them through cyberspace the next four years. According to the survey,...
View ArticleKeystroke profiling
Also known as keystroke or typing dynamics, keystroke profiling translates into associating an individual with his/hers way of interacting with an interface via a keyboard or another device of input....
View ArticleIndustrial security awareness continues to remain low
While traditional #manufacturing industries were not designed with security in mind, the proliferation of networks and devices, disparate communication channels, and the use of off-the-shelf software...
View ArticleWeek in review: Android ransomware multiplies, FireEye censors researcher
#hacker had access to sensitive info about #firefox bugs for over a year Mozilla has announced that an attacker managed to access #security-sensitive information about a considerable number of (at the...
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