Appeals court overturns AT&T hacker’s sentence
A US federal appeals court has vacated the conviction and sentence received by Andrew “weev” Auernheimer for the AT&T iPad hack. Auernheimer, a hacker and …
Week in review: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Windows XP reaches end of line
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews, reviews and articles: Does IP convergence open you up to hackers? Recent reports …
Heartbleed bug: Checking websites and changing passwords
In the wake of the discovery of the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL, some security experts even went as far as advising users to avoid the Internet for a few days until the problem …
Vendors address the Heartbleed bug
Which products and services are affected by the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL? Vendors have started issuing security advisories telling users which of their products are safe and …
The effect of the Heartbleed bug on open source projects
The Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL is all the information security world is talking about these days. Many are beginning to realize, its existence has opened multiple cans of …
Advanced attackers go undetected for 229 days
A new FireEye report details the tactics used by threat actors to compromise organizations and steal data. It also highlights emerging global threat actors, their suspected …
Most cloud services are putting businesses at risk
A new Skyhigh Networks report analyzes usage data from more than one million users across more than 40 companies spanning the financial services, healthcare, high technology, …
The state of remote access security
At the end of 2013, HOB conducted a survey of more than 200 CIOs and CTOs in the U.S. The survey quantified the trends and challenges IT decision makers experience when …
The digital universe will reach 44 trillion gigabytes by 2020
A new EMC study reveals how the emergence of wireless technologies, smart products and software-defined businesses are playing a central role in catapulting the volume of the …
Universities now have access to cybersecurity education
(ISC)2 is making its educational resources, which are updated regularly by its members and industry luminaries, available to academia to help meet the global demand for more …
NSA subverted EU privacy laws, spied on human rights orgs
In a testimony delivered by video-link from Moscow, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed to EU parliamentarians that the US NSA is actively spying on human rights …
Heartbleed bug: What regular users need to do
As the news of the existence of the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL and the implications of its existence trickles down into mainstream media, users are trying to figure out what …
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