Brain’s reaction to certain words could replace passwords
You might not need to remember those complicated e-mail and bank account passwords for much longer. According to a new study, the way your brain responds to certain words …
NIST updates ICS security guide
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the second revision to its Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security. It includes new guidance on …
Released: New version of REMnux Linux distro for malware analysis
REMnux is a free Linux toolkit for assisting malware analysts with reverse-engineering malicious software. It strives to make it easier for forensic investigators and incident …
Week in review: Hiding exploit code in images, online summer travel scams, and Infosecurity Europe 2015
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles:Cookie warnings: Useless and bad for security?Our daily clicking away of these …
MalumPoS can be customized to target different systems
“A new Point-of-Sale RAM scraper is being offered for sale, and is currently designed to collect data from a very specific type of PoS systems: those running on Oracle …
Personal info of 4 million US government workers compromised in OPM breach
Approximately 4 million US federal employees, both current and former, will start receiving a breach notification alerting them that their personal information has potentially …
Stagnant budgets and rising insider security threats
A Vectra Networks survey of more than 500 cybersecurity professionals in the Information Security Community on LinkedIn reveals that insider threats are rising, but IT …
Online summer travel scams to watch out for
Iovation released a list of common online summer travel scams to watch out for. The company also announced that it has seen a hundred percent increase in online travel …
70% of breaches are detected by a third-party
46 percent of organizations that have suffered a data breach took more than four months to detect a problem, and more than three months to mitigate the risk. Worryingly, the …
CSA releases tool for personal data legal protection
At Infosecurity Europe 2015, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Working Group released the Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) v2, a tool that provides …
Access control and password management solution for privileged endpoints
Bomgar and Thycotic have partnered to provide enterprises with better control and visibility of access to critical endpoints and privileged accounts.Bomgar Privileged Access …
Discovering connections between attackers
In the last few years, Pedram Hayati, founder of Australian IT company Security Dimension, has been developing a custom honeypot intelligence system called Smart Honeypot. …