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Week in review: ScreenOS backdoor, Twitter warns about state-sponsored attacks, and MacKeeper data breach
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Critical ScreenOS bugs allow undetectable decryption of VPN connections, device …
Infosec pros are moving beyond traditional passwords
Businesses nationwide are increasing their cybersecurity budgets and exploring alternative authentication techniques to passwords, according to a SecureAuth and Wakefield …
Stolen medical information affects 18 out of 20 industries
Stolen medical information is a much more widespread issue than previously thought, affecting 18 out of 20 industries examined, according to the just released Verizon 2015 …
Mobile banking threats among the leading malicious financial programs
For the first time ever, mobile financial threats rank among the top ten malicious programs designed to steal money. Another alarming trend is the rapid spread of ransomware, …
Five key cybersecurity trends for 2016
The overwhelming shift to mobile and cloud computing among both businesses and consumers will see some surprising additions to the risk landscape in 2016. ISACA shares five …
Blockchain transactions create risks for financial services
Trust is the most valuable commodity in the digital age. Failure to trust the systems or organizations in which we place our digital assets leads us to look at alternate …
New EU rules on data protection put the citizen back in the driving seat
New EU data protection legislation, informally agreed on Tuesday and backed by Civil Liberties MEPs on Thursday morning, will create a uniform set of rules across the EU fit …
Vision for a new generation of experimental cybersecurity research
How do cybersecurity experts discover how to properly defend a system or build a network that’s secure? As in other domains of science, this process involves hypothesis, …
IT teams expect a nightmare during the holidays
Dealing with potential data loss will be the number one headache confronting IT professionals in the run up to the 2015 holiday season. Over one-third of IT professionals in …
IT use of cloud surges to record heights
The cloud has reached the point where businesses are no longer debating whether or not to use cloud, but how pervasively they will use it. A new North Bridge survey shows …
Will 2016 be the year of the 100G network?
100G Ethernet networks will be deployed much faster and more broadly than previously expected. Based on the influence of new paradigms currently emerging like SDN, NFV, Big …
Driving an industry towards secure code
The German government made an unprecedented move this week by issuing requirements for all new vehicles’ software to be made accessible to country regulators to ensure that …
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