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The slow death of static security detections: Beginning of SIEM deployments
Machines both mechanical and electric have always been good at counting things. Ask anyone from an earlier generation who still uses a Victor Champion adding machine from the …
Can you correctly identify phishing emails?
An Intel Security quiz presented ten emails and asked respondents to identify which of the emails were phishing attempts designed to steal personal information and which were …
CIOs are distracted by the business of keeping the lights on
75 percent of CIO respondents to a global survey stated their network is an issue in achieving their organizations goals. For almost a quarter of CIO’s polled, it is a …
Man charged with attempted spear-phishing attack on U.S. Department of Energy
An indictment is charging a former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) with a total of four felony offenses in …
Increasing cloud adoption will drive IT innovation
DevOps is a software development and IT management method that brings software engineering, quality assurance, and IT operations together as an integrated team to …
Do you know where your sensitive data lives?
The majority of IT security professionals don’t have full visibility into where all their organization’s sensitive data resides, according to Perspecsys. Challenges with …
Defend your network from APTs that exploit DNS
Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are designed to spread, morph and hide within IT infrastructure to perpetrate a long term attack, posing a significant threat to the …
IoT and the great data heist
The term mobile has evolved from the device that simply made and received phone calls, to smartphones, wearables and a multitude of devices in the home. With the introduction …
Data privacy endangered by international trade agreements
You might or might not know that some countries – especially some European ones – have (or are working on) strong data protection laws.What most people don’t …
Week in review: Illegal surveillance, WordPress insecurity, cheap computer kill switch
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts and articles:Securing the smart grid: European Network of Cyber SecurityDr. Klaus Kursawe …
How long is the wait?
Does this question sound familiar? You have probably asked this question several times. Nobody likes to wait. But yet, we wait at restaurants, to see the doctor, and to get …
BalaBit updates Shell Control Box
BalaBit announced Shell Control Box (SCB) 4 F1, an enterprise-level activity monitoring appliance that controls privileged access to remote IT systems, records activities in …