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FBI Director James Comey to keynote RSA Conference 2014
RSA Conference announced that Director of the FBI, James B. Comey will provide a keynote presentation on Wednesday, February 26 at RSA Conference 2014 in San Francisco. During …
Half a million Belkin WeMo users are wide open to attackers
IOActive has uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in Belkin WeMo Home Automation devices that could affect over half a million users. Belkin’s WeMo uses Wi-Fi and the …
Most security pros concerned about missing threats between vulnerability scans
Continuous monitoring, whose roots lie with the U.S. government, addresses many of the challenges faced by traditional vulnerability management solutions and offers CISOs and …
One of the first network firewall inventors to come to Abu Dhabi
One of the creators of the world’s first network firewall and the author of “Firewall and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker”, Bill Cheswick, will …
GFI Cloud gets enhanced performance monitoring
GFI Software has enhanced the network performance monitoring capabilities and other features of GFI Cloud, the company’s IT platform for SMBs that enables IT …
What to expect at RSA Conference 2014
The annual RSA Conference is taking place next week in San Francisco, and Avivah Litan, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, provided her thoughts on what to …
Removing admin rights mitigates 92% of critical Microsoft vulnerabilities
Avecto analyzed data from security bulletins issued by Microsoft throughout 2013 and concluded that 92% of all vulnerabilities reported by Microsoft with a critical severity …
Week in review: IE 0-day and fake SSL certificates exploited in the wild, Bitcoin exchanges suspend withdrawals
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Account details of 27,000 Barclays customers stolen, sold to brokers (In)famous …
300,000 users affected by premium-SMS sending apps from Google Play
Panda Security has identified malicious apps on Google Play that can sign users up to premium SMS subscription services without their permission. These new threats have been …
Most organizations are unable to resolve a cyber attack
The lack of incident detection and investigation puts companies and their CISOs’ jobs at significant risk, according to a new Ponemon Institute study. In fact, when a …
Security vulnerability in the Duo WordPress two-factor authentication plugin
During an internal assessment, Duo Security found a vulnerability in their popular WordPress two-factor authentication plugin that completely bypasses the security measures …
The sad state of cyber security readiness
Just 17 per cent of UK business leaders see cyber security as a major priority, compared to 41 per cent in the US, research from BT has revealed. The research, which assessed …