RSA Conference opens Innovation Sandbox Contest
The RSA Conference annual Innovation Sandbox Contest is now accepting submissions to name the “RSAC Most Innovative Startup 2016.” Past winners include successful companies …
End-to-end encrypted database ZeroDB is now open source
ZeroDB, an end-to-end encrypted database whose release was announced earlier this year, is now open source. Developers MacLane Wilkison and Michael Egorov changed the license …
The impact of data breaches on customer loyalty
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of consumers worldwide say they are unlikely to shop or do business again with a company that had experienced a breach where financial information was …
Do CEOs know enough about cyber security?
One-third of CEOs and 43 percent of management teams are not regularly briefed on cyber security issues, according to Dimensional Research. Additionally, while 79 percent of …
Only 5% of organizations protect credentials
In order to find the riskiest industries in the cloud, CloudLock analyzed 10 million users, 1 billion files, and over 91,000 applications, focusing on and breaking down risk …
10 tips to help organizations stay secure this holiday season
Optiv Security shared a list of the top 10 things organizations can do to help them stay secure during the holiday season.1. Know who on your security team is on vacation and …
Next year, smart cities will use 1.6 billion connected things
Gartner estimates that 1.6 billion connected things will be used by smart cities in 2016, an increase of 39 percent from 2015.“Smart commercial buildings will be the …
Microsoft kills many critical flaws, some 0-days, un-trusts one wildcard cert
For this December Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released twelve security bulletins, eight of which have been rated critical.Those refer to the cumulative security updates for …
Apple releases security updates for every major product
Apple has released security updates for the operating systems running on the company’s iPhones, computers, Apple TV and various versions of smartwatches, as well as …
Only 37% of SMBs think they’re equipped to manage IT security
Just 37% of IT decision makers surveyed in the US, the UK, and Australia believe their organisations are completely ready to manage IT security and protect against threats. …
Demand for new malicious programs reaches saturation point
According to Kaspersky Lab, the number of new malware files detected by its products in 2015 decreased to 310,000 a day, falling 15,000 from the 2014 number of 325,000. …
DDoS attacks increase 180% compared to a year ago
Akamai Technologies announced its Q3 2015 report, which provides analysis and insight into the global cloud security threat landscape.“Akamai has been seeing greater …
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