Week in review: Mac ransomware, women in infosec, and the death of SHA-1
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: The dangers that come with buying pre-owned IoT devices When you buy a …
Which countermeasures improve security and which are a waste of money?
If you want to know about which cyber defenses are most effective and which are a waste of money and resources, ask a hacker. And that’s just what Nuix researchers did. …
New infosec products of the week: February 24, 2017
Security solutions for IoT automotive telematics Building a secure automotive telematics platform to achieve a profitable business model for automakers and ecosystem partners …
Biggest limiting factors to universal adoption of connected devices
After surveying 250 respondents at CES 2017, the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) concluded that more than 60 percent of respondents consider standardization and …
New attack sounds death knell for widely used SHA-1 crypto hash function
SHA-1 is definitely, provenly dead, as a group of researchers from CWI Institute in Amsterdam and Google have demonstrated the first practical technique for generating a …
Suspected Deutsche Telekom router hacker arrested
A 29-year-old British national, believed to be the mastermind behind last November’s unsuccessful hijacking attempt of Deutsche Telekom users’ routers, was …
Removing admin rights mitigates most critical Microsoft vulnerabilities
Avecto has analyzed the security bulletins Microsoft released in the past year, and came to an important conclusion: an overwhelming majority of all the critical Microsoft …
Women in infosec: Real-life experiences and challenges
In all segments of society and business, minorities encounter problems that the majority rarely or never faces. And information security is – I think we can all agree …
Passages: Secure virtual browser for malware isolation
Over 90% of undetected attacks come through the web. In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Lance Cottrell, Chief Scientist at Ntrepid, talks about Passages, a …
New macOS ransomware masquerades as software cracking tools
New crypto ransomware dubbed Filecoder (aka Findzip) is stalking macOS users, ESET researchers warn. Masquerading as an application for cracking/patching legal copies of Adobe …
The devastating impact of healthcare data breaches
One in four U.S. consumers have had their personal medical information stolen from technology systems, according to Accenture. The findings show that half of those who …
Key obstacles to digital transformation and data privacy compliance
To stay relevant in an increasingly digital world, companies are either starting to or are currently in the process of transforming their digital environment to improve …
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