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Five principal cloud security challenges
In our technology driven world, security in the cloud is an issue that should be discussed from the board level all the way down to new employees. CDNetworks takes a look at …
Script injection vulnerability discovered in Salesforce
Elastica discovered an injection vulnerability in Salesforce which opened the door for attackers to use a trusted Salesforce application as a platform to conduct phishing …
Dropbox adds support for FIDO U2F secure authentication
Cloud storage giant Dropbox announced to its 400 million users that it supports FIDO U2F for strong two-factor authentication.Dropbox users can now protect their files with …
Addressing IoT risks with a trust framework
The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) released its Internet of Things Trust Framework, the first global, multi-stakeholder effort to address IoT risks comprehensively.The framework …
Impact and scope of fraud that crosses multiple industries
84 percent of fraud mitigation professionals interviewed by LexisNexis Risk Solutions see fraud that crosses multiple industries in their investigations.Multi-industry fraud …
Insider trading ring hacked into newswire services, raked in $100M based on stolen info
The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced civil fraud charges against 32 defendants for taking part in a scheme to profit from stolen nonpublic information about …
OpenSSH 7.0 deprecates weak, legacy and unsafe cryptography
OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. Additionally, it provides secure tunneling …
Revisiting takedown wins: Are users in the developing world getting left behind?
We have all seen the headlines: another botnet dismantled, and we can all rest easy that the threat that has been plaguing us for all those years is now no longer an issue. …
Looks like mobile device security is on nobody’s mind
Despite recent high-profile data theft attacks, much of the American workforce has not taken action to protect information on their personal and corporate-issued devices. …
Firefox 40: New features and critical security updates
Mozilla released Firefox 40. The update includes four critical, seven high and two moderate security updates. The new release now issues a warning if you visit a page known to …
Kali Linux 2.0 released: New 4.0 kernel, improved hardware and wireless driver coverage
Kali Linux, the open source penetration testing platform, has reached version 2.0.Kali Linux 2.0 comes with a 4.0 kernel, now based on Debian Jessie. It features improved …
Top 10 U.S. cities for online fraud
Data reveals Tampa as the top hot spot for online fraud and ThreatMetrix found a correlation between top cities for fraud and those home to hosted data centers. The top 10 …