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Twitter underground economy still going strong
The Twitter underground economy and the fake social account market as a whole continues to gain momentum, and the financial motivations of this multimillion-dollar business …
Protect your company from BYOD security threats
With users wanting to connect their personally owned computers to corporate infrastructure, IT admins have to find the right balance between providing services, and securing …
Combating attacks with collaborative threat intelligence
Advanced Persistent Attacks (APTs) get most of the attention from the cyber security community because, as defenders, we want to be vigilant against the most insidious …
SSL Labs: Deploying forward secrecy
With revelations about mass surveillance in the news everywhere, an obscure feature of SSL/TLS called forward secrecy has suddenly become very interesting. So what is it, and …
How big data is transforming information security
In this video recorded at Hack In The Box 2013 Amsterdam, Eddie Schwartz, CSO at RSA, The Security Division of EMC, discusses the impact of big data on information security. …
DDoS attacks: What they are and how to protect yourself
Ameen Pishdadi is the CTO at GigeNET. In this interview he discusses the various types of DDoS attacks, tells us who is at risk, tackles information gathering during attacks, …
BYOD: The why and the how
Brad Keller and Robin Slade are Senior Vice Presidents at The Santa Fe Group. In this interview they talk in detail about the challenges involved in evaluating, deploying and …
Information security executives need to be strategic thinkers
George Baker is the Director of Information Security at Exostar. In this interview he talks about the challenges in working in a dynamic threat landscape, offers tips for …
Oppose PRISM-like programs today or lose you privacy tomorrow
I used to work for a telecommunication company. The government had access to call records, although the process for obtaining any information required manual requests and …
To hack back or not to hack back?
Many centuries ago, explorers came to the vast land of North America. Shipload upon shipload of dreamers, explorers, businessmen and farmers entered the harbors and spread out …
The future of online authentication
Recently, Twitter has introduced 2-factor authentication – the latest in a long list of large-scale web services that have taken this step including Google, Microsoft …
Brown University CISO on education, BYOD and emerging threats
David Sherry is the CISO at Brown University. He leads the Information Security Group, charged with the development and maintenance of Brown’s information security …