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Google increases bounties for Chrome, Google Play bugs

Bug hunters searching for security flaws in Google’s offerings are now vying for higher bounties. Microsoft has launched a new bug bounty program. Google’s changes …

Healthcare IoT
Healthcare’s blind spot: Unmanaged IoT and medical devices

From imaging to monitoring systems, infusion pumps to therapeutic lasers and life support machines, medical devices are used to improve and streamline patient care. Many of …

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Securing modern web apps: A case for framework-aware SAST

If you were to write a web application entirely by yourself, it would be a rather daunting task. You would need to write the UI elements from lower-level APIs, set up and …

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Most consumers still don’t know how brands are using their data

Despite the past year’s global focus on GDPR and other data privacy regulations designed to give consumers more power over their data, more than half (55 percent) of consumers …

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How DNS firewalls can burn security teams

It’s easy to see how DNS firewalls could have thwarted 33% of data breaches. For most IT and security teams, DNS has been an afterthought. Or, worse, not even that. The …

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Upfront transparency of data use is key for greater consumer acceptance of AI devices

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) relies heavily on the need for higher levels of intelligence to better predict, suggest and adapt to changing user behaviors. …

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How understanding and trust in data informs business decisions

There is a disconnect around understanding and trust in the data and how it informs business decisions, a Syncsort survey reveals, though most respondents rated their …

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Week in review: Malicious Python packages, FaceApp panic, and how to avoid a biometric dystopia

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Do you have what it takes to be a hardware hacker? If you ask Yago Hansen, a hacker …

Slack
4 years after data breach, Slack resets 100,000 users’ passwords

Roughly 100,000 Slack users are getting their password reset and will have to choose a new one. The reason? During the data breach the company suffered in 2015, the attackers …

Perimeter81
New infosec products of the week: July 19, 2019

Perimeter 81 ensures zero trust access to web applications without an agent Zero Trust Application Access is designed to meet the demands of today’s ever-expanding modern …

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NSS Labs test exposes weaknesses in NGFW products

Firewalls are the most widely deployed network security devices. Enterprises expect next generation firewalls (NGFWs) to prevent exploits and malware from infecting critical …

AWS
New open source solution reduces the risks associated with cloud deployments

An open source user computer environment (UCE) for the Amazon Cloud, called Galahad, has been launched by the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The technology will …

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