Review: Advanced Persistent Security
About the authors Ira Winkler, CISSP is President of the Internet Security Advisors Group. He is considered one of the world’s most influential security professionals. Araceli …
66% of US law firms reported a breach in 2016
The majority of US-based law firms are not only exposed in a wide variety of areas, but in many cases, unaware of intrusion attempts. These findings were based on Logicforce …
South Korean bitcoin exchange hacked, user accounts plundered
Bithumb, a South Korean bitcoin and ether exchange, has suffered a data breach that resulted in customer losses potentially reaching billions of South Korean won (currently, a …
How to create an effective application security budget
Inadequately secured software ranks amongst the most significant root cause issues in cybersecurity. The frequency and severity of attacks on the application layer is greater …
Security’s blind spot: The long-term state of exception
It seems every major hack is accompanied by the pointing of fingers. And there are plenty of places to point them: the servers that weren’t patched, the retailer who hadn’t …
How High-Tech Bridge uses machine learning
In this podcast, Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at High-Tech Bridge, talks about the difference between artificial intelligence and machine learning, and illustrates how his company …
Windows 10 will use protected folders to thwart crypto ransomware
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (the next major update of Microsoft’s popular OS) is scheduled to be released in September, and will come with major new end-to-end …
Rising information security threats, and what to do about them
The digital threat landscape faced by enterprises large and small is in perpetual flux, and keeping an eye on things and adapting defenses should be of primary importance to …
TLS security: Past, present and future
The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol as it stands today has evolved from the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol from Netscape Communications and the Private …
Cloud IT infrastructure revenues grew 14.9% to $8 billion in 1Q17
Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew 14.9% year over year in the …
Week in review: NotPetya, Facebook to inspect private messages, new issue of (IN)SECURE
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: With ransomware, pay up if you want to keep paying So there you are, staring at a …
Eternal Blues: A free EternalBlue vulnerability scanner
It is to be hoped that after the WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks, companies will finally make sure to install – on all their systems – the Windows update that …