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Week in review: Docker security, SWIFT warns of new attacks, SAP vulnerability exploited
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: SWIFT warns of new attacks, Bangladesh Bank heist linked to Sony hack They believe …
Milagro: A distributed cryptosystem for the cloud
A new open source project within the Apache Incubator aims to create an alternative to outdated and problematic monolithic trust hierarchies such as commercial certificate …
Do users’ perceptions of password security match reality?
Think your password is secure? You may need to think again. People’s perceptions of password strength may not always match reality, according to a recent study by CyLab, …
Bridging the security automation gap
Security management has gotten out of hand, according to our recent State of Automation in Security Report. 48% of survey respondents had an application outage as a result of …
Healthcare under attack! 89% of organizations experienced data breaches
It’s a turbulent time for the healthcare industry: patient data is under siege and hospitals are big targets for cyber attacks, according to the Ponemon Institute. Mistakes …
Worldwide server virtualization market is reaching its peak
The worldwide x86 server virtualization market is expected to reach $5.6 billion in 2016, an increase of 5.7 percent from 2015, according to Gartner. Despite the overall …
Impact of security breaches on consumer trust
High-profile data breaches are negatively impacting consumer trust in major brands, according to a new FireEye report. 76 percent of respondents would likely take their …
Financial services IT pros overconfident in breach detection capabilities
A new Tripwire study evaluated the confidence of IT professionals regarding the efficacy of seven key security controls, which must be in place to quickly detect a cyber …
Vulnerability management trends in Asia Pacific
A new study conducted by Forrester Consulting evaluated perceived challenges, drivers and benefits of various vulnerability management strategies and investments based on …
It’s time to get serious about ICS cybersecurity
As recently reported by The Register, a proof-of-concept PLC worm could spell disaster for the critical infrastructure by making attacks exponentially more difficult to detect …
Microsoft releases eight critical updates
Microsoft has released its May patch updates and it was a rather large deployment with 16 total updates this month. The critical versus important updates were split down the …
Universities to help train IBM Watson for Cyber Security
IBM Security announced Watson for Cyber Security, a new cloud-based version of the company’s cognitive technology trained on the language of security as part of a …
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