In today’s businesses, it seems like the technology landscape is changing ever more rapidly. For most firms, IT has become a veritable parade of transformative and disruptive technology: cloud, mobility, BYOD, Internet of Things – new technologies keep coming down the pike that call for new strategies, new technologies, and new processes to keep organizational…
DetailsThe latest iCloud photo leak news makes for interesting conversation – both with friends and family as well as business leaders. Yet not surprisingly, many are entrusting their digital lives and their business with something they know very little about. Is this the epitome of trust? Just do what others did; it’ll be fine? This…
DetailsHome improvement retailer Home Depot is still investigating a possible breach where cyber-criminals may have stolen credit and debit card details from nearly all of its 2,200 stores in the United States this year. Krebs on Security first reported the alleged breach on Tuesday. Home Depot CEO Frank Blake told investors at the Goldman Sachs…
DetailsVeritas Capital, the New-York-based private-equity, firm has agreed to buy BeyondTrust Software Inc., a provider of privileged account management and vulnerability management solutions, a statement by the security vendor said. Bloomberg reported that Veritas, which has been an investor in BeyondTrust since 2006, would pay $310 million. A Phoenix-based company, BeyondTrust said it has experienced revenue CAGR of…
DetailsGoogle, Twitter, and HP are teaming up with 10 other technology companies and universities to help developers design secure software and write better code. An initiative under the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, the new group focuses on practical recommendations for secure software design. The other founding members of IEEE Center…
DetailsSecurity products have evolved with the use of the Internet. When web sites were largely static it was enough to tell users which URLs to avoid because the content was undesirable (porn etc.). As the web became a means distributing malware and perpetrating fraud, there was a need to identify bad URLs that appeared overnight…
DetailsWe all knew it was coming. As more and more networks are created and the IP address space is subdivided more and more the global routing table that backbone routers have to store in memory grow. Many older routers only have 512K of memory. If the size of the table exceeds that, the routers start…
DetailsThis is an update to the article about identifying LinkedIn scammers when they request a connection. In that article we listed six ways to identify fake accounts: 1.Look at that URL. If it indicates that this is a new account (anything over 300 million right now) be very suspicious. Other than your kids do you know…
DetailsNetScout, a vendor of network management tools, has filed a suit against Gartner claiming that Gartner has a “pay-to-play” business model. The suit states that Gartner made false and defamatory statements regarding NetScout, causing substantial injury to NetScout. It says that NetScout suffered the consequences based on its placement in Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant (MQ) report Network Performance Reporting and Diagnostics…
DetailsIn its 17th year, the annual Black Hat security conference was bigger than ever, with more than 8,000 registered attendees, 147 vendors exhibiting in the expo hall, and more workshops. The conference’s size and the fact that the conference had moved from Caesars Palace to Mandalay Bay are fairly cosmetic changes. The tenor of the…
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