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Universities now have access to cybersecurity education

(ISC)2 is making its educational resources, which are updated regularly by its members and industry luminaries, available to academia to help meet the global demand for more …

Breaches expose 552 million identities in 2013

After lurking in the shadows for the first ten months of 2013, cybercriminals unleashed the most damaging series of cyberattacks in history. Symantec’s Internet Security …

TCG releases TPM 2.0 specification for device security

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has announced the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 2.0 library specification, which provides a technology response to the global need for a more …

Lie detection technology that accurately reads eye behavior

A company has discovered how to not just open the window to the soul via one’s eyes, but also accurately determine whether or not that soul is lying. For years, …

Demand for security and Big Data experts grows

A new survey by TEKsystems compares current market conditions to the state of spending, skills needs, and impact areas. The survey represents the views of 244 IT leaders …

Email management lacks innovation, businesses turn to cloud

SolarWinds released survey results highlighting the growing challenge organizations face managing email in an increasingly complex environment where BYOx, mobility and other …

Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability: A technical remediation

OpenSSL released an bug advisory about a 64kb memory leak patch in their library. The bug has been assigned CVE-2014-0160 TLS heartbeat read overrun. According to OpenSSL, the …

WordPress releases important security update

WordPress 3.8.2 is now available. This is an important security release for all previous versions and you should update immediately. This releases fixes a weakness that could …

Universities are a rich target for hackers

In 2013, HALOCK Security Labs noted information security vulnerabilities at colleges and universities along with numerous challenges that plague these institutions across the …

A closer look at Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday

April’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday is on par with the prior releases this year. There are only four bulletins being released, two rated “Critical” and two rated …

Best practices for secure use of Windows XP

Microsoft’s support for Windows XP ended yesterday, April 8, 2014. However, Gartner estimates that one-third of enterprises currently have more than 10 percent of their …

56% of employees still receive no security awareness training

A new research survey by EMA takes you inside today’s organizations to reveal how employee decisions related to information security can significantly increase …

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