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Microsoft set to release a total of five bulletins for this month's Patch Tuesday
Hacktivists have launched attacks in the wake of the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine.
Cloud-based security solutions provider Proofpoint has launched a new offering designed to combat malvertising.
Some criminals are taking advantage of poor cloud security practices and configuration mistakes to take over user cloud instances on Amazon Web Services and similar cloud infrastructure platforms.
Microsoft launched a new web site dedicated to sharing the untold story behind its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).
Kaspersky Lab says there has been an uptick in recent months of malware authors attempting to use TOR to hide their infrastructure, as well as a growth in criminal marketplaces.
Two Bitcoin exchanges were hit recently by hackers, causing one to shutdown.
Target said that its chief information officer, Beth Jacob, has resigned effective immediately, after the massive data breach that occurred late last year.
Long time condiment maker Smucker’s was forced to shut down its online store after hackers breached the site and obtained customer and payment card information.
A poll of 341 attendees found that just 48 percent felt the spy agency went too far in its surveillance efforts.
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For a month, I kept all of my spam, then looked at the subject matter, where it was from and tried to analyze some additional characteristics of the spam.
What needs to change is the perception that the primary role of IT is in safeguarding and blocking data from being viewed by an outsider.
Security Metrics are critical for our ability to do better at our jobs, to quantify where we are succeeding and to measure what works, and how well it's working.
Focusing more on availability-based attacks, the security friction surfaces are now wider than ever, and much more dynamic for enterprises, cloud service providers and carrier organizations.
Here are five things I recommend security pros keep in mind when navigating the line between tight security and keeping the organization running at peak proficiency.
Enterprises must find the right balance to deliver a mobile security environment that meets productivity and flexibility needs without putting devices, apps, or data at risk.
The concepts of defense in depth have been with us for years -- hundreds of years, if not thousands. Maybe we can learn something from those architects of warfare from the Middle Ages?
Mosquitoes are quite similar to malware. There are thousands of species and numerous ways to try to protect against them but each method has its limitations.
While I’d argue the point that the chip and PIN system is better and more secure than the mag stripe, it’s not what caused these or what will prevent future malware attacks.
While security monitoring generates big data, in its raw form it remains only a means to an end. Ultimately, information security decision making should be based on prioritized, actionable insight derived from the data.
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