Where Are the US Tech Heroes?
It has been three months since the world learned that the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate, through its Tailored Access Operations (TAO) has been deploying backdoors in Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, Dell,…
DetailsNever The Twain Shall Meet: Why Network Security Vendors Should Stay Away From End Point Security, and Vice-Versa
There would be many more successful security companies if their founders and leaders had a better understanding of the IT security space. One fallacy that will not die is the…
DetailsHackers Increasingly Turn to Darknet, Black Market Growing
The black market for hackers is continuing to grow as they increasingly turn to the “darknet” to access tools, services and the spoils of the attacks while averting law enforcement, according to a…
DetailsStreetCred – Criminals Can Run and They Can Hide but Not for Long
“We wanted to make a difference”, said StreetCred co-founder and CEO, Nick Selby. Selby, a long-time figure in the information security industry was sworn in as a Dallas-area police officer…
DetailsThe Safe Use of Test Data
The best time to eliminate software bugs is early on in the application development lifecycle. Doing so helps ensure better code is released in the first place; it will be…
DetailsMore than 3000 US Companies Notified of Breaches in 2013 – Report
Federal law enforcement notified more than 3,000 U.S. companies in 2013 that their computer systems and networks had been breached, according to a Washington Post report. Lisa Monaco, deputy national…
DetailsDormant VM Images: A Sealed Box of Evil?
Imagine for a moment a villain (or villains) trapped powerless for years. After being reanimated by an unsuspecting populace, the newly-released evil goes forth to wreak havoc until it’s only once…
DetailsPalo Alto Networks to Acquire Israeli Cybersecurity Firm
Firewall maker Palo Alto Networks Inc. said it will buy Israeli security firm Cyvera for about $200 million in cash and stock, the company said in a release. After the…
DetailsHow Symantec Can Pull Out of a Tail Spin
It should come as no surprise to anyone that Symantec’s recently fired CEO Steve Bennett’s strategy of cut costs and improve operations has failed miserably. As I wrote when Symantec’s…
DetailsClone Wars: Robolawyers Acting as Laywer, Judge and Executioner
Copyright lawyers are being replaced by robots – well, algorithms at least. And this is not good for lawyers. It’s also not good for copyright holders, and those who make…
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