Federal Weather System Breached
China-based attackers are back in the news again, this time for breaching the federal weather network, officials told the Washington Post. The initial intrusion appears to have occurred late September,…
DetailsFBI Investigates Cyber Attack on US Postal Service
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a cyber attack earlier this year against the U.S. Postal Service that exposed the personal information of every single employee. Personal information of…
DetailsThe Problem of Buggy Software Components
What do Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle all have in common? Well apart from being software vulnerabilities discovered in 2014, they were all found in pre-built software components, used by developers…
DetailsMore Calls for Businesses to Adopt EMV Chip Payment Technology
Another industry alliance joined the chorus urging businesses that process debit and credit cards to implement EMV payment chip technology to combat fraud. EMV stands for Europay, MasterCard® and Visa®, the…
DetailsLegacy Security Controls: Time to Pull the Plug?
It’s a fact of life that most IT shops have, to one degree or another, a “security products graveyard” – i.e. security technology that’s past its prime, performing poorly, or…
DetailsSplitting Symantec is the Right Thing To Do – Now it is Intel’s Turn
The current flurry of breakups in the tech sector is gratifying to watch. The only conglomerate strategy I have ever seen work effectively is Alfred P. Sloan’s revolutionary “centralized decentralization”…
DetailsWhat CISOs Must Know About Fighting Identity Theft
High-level strategies for defending against attacks to steal identities are twofold: solutions on the back end, and what consumers and business partners can do to protect themselves. Almost daily, we…
DetailsThe Thanks-Rob Worm to Come
By now you have heard about a new bug in one of the most popular Unix shell programs, the Bourne Shell, or bash. If you run Mac OSX you probably…
DetailsSecurity Versus Compliance: What’s the Difference?
Security is the pursuit of perfect protection through ongoing tightening of defenses and preemptive activities to cover vulnerabilities. Risk management, on the other hand, is a discipline that enables organizations…
DetailseSentire Raises $14 Million in Series C Round
[usp_status display=”email”] eSentire, a Canadian technology and security services company, said on Tuesday that it had raised $14 million in a series C investment round led by Georgian partners, with…
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