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Cutting-edge security research comes to Amsterdam
Held once again at De Beurs van Berlage, HITB2015AMS takes place from the 26-29 May 2015 and runs alongside HITB Haxpo, a 3-day technology expo for hackers, makers, builders …
Online trust is at the breaking point
IT security professionals around the globe believe the system of trust established by cryptographic keys and digital certificates, as well as the security of trillions of …
Week in review: Shadow IT, crypto-ransomware goes after gamers, and the security of smartwatches
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Hack yourself first: How we can take the fight to the black hats Threats are no …
Preventing fraud through enterprise password management
The past few years the world has seen various incidents where students have fraudulently modified their school grades, progress reports and attendance records. Recently, there …
Defending against PoS RAM scrapers
Stealing payment card data has become an everyday crime that yields quick monetary gains. Attackers aim to steal the data stored in the magnetic stripe of payment cards, …
Most businesses fail interim PCI compliance assessment
Nearly 80 percent of all businesses fail their interim PCI compliance assessment, leaving them vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to Verizon’s 2015 PCI Compliance …
Listen to your employees or deal with shadow IT
Data leakage, compliance breaches, business inefficiency and hidden costs are just some of the risks organizations are leaving themselves open to by not meeting the IT demands …
2,400 unsafe mobile apps found in average large enterprise
The average global enterprise has approximately 2,400 unsafe applications installed in its mobile environment, according to Veracode. Based on an analysis of hundreds of …
How much pressure do infosec professionals face?
Businesses were under increased pressure to secure their organizations in 2014 and expect that pressure to increase in 2015, according to Trustwave. Survey respondents also …
As confidence sinks, cyber attacks rise
While IT security spending is increasing, confidence is falling. In surveying more than 800 security decision makers and practitioners, the CyberEdge Group found that more …
False positive free online web application security scanner from Netsparker
Netsparker launched their new enterprise online service offering Netsparker Cloud, which enables organizations to simultaneously scan hundreds and thousands of websites for …
When it comes to patient data privacy, compliance and security differ
If a name perfectly underscored a growing issue of concern, it’s Anthem. In February, the health insurance plan provider disclosed cyber attackers had breached its IT …
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