The cybersecurity industry can be romanticized as a crime-fighting cabal of protectors facing off against hackers to keep the Internet safe. In this version of the story, there are good guys and bad guys, and the good guys do everything they can to keep their adversaries at bay. Read more.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday said a controversial new surveillance bill could sweep away “important privacy protections”, a move that bodes ill for the measure’s return to the floor of the Senate this week.
Forty-three percent of mid-sized businesses say they have experienced a data breach in the past three years and 13 percent have had a supplier’s data breach impact their business information.
Last year was a banner year for high-profile data security breaches with Sony, Target, Home Depot, and JPMorgan reporting attacks. This year will be no different.
Hint: Success of the incident response team will depend heavily on the preparation done before the breach The first thing an IT security executive should do after the corporate network has been breached is fall back on the incident response plan that was put in place well before attackers got through the carefully constructed defenses. …
Last Monday – the 15th – password storage maker LastPass was hacked, exposing the email addresses and encrypted master passwords of its users. Last Tuesday – the 16th – in Congressional testimony, House Oversight Chairman, Jason Chaffetz, said that federal cybersecurity “stinks” in response to the governmental breach that happened earlier this month, exposing the …
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Security researchers have many names for the hacking group that is one of the suspects for the cyberattack on the U.S. government’s Office of Personnel Management: PinkPanther, KungFu Kittens, Group 72 and, most famously, Deep Panda. But to Jared Myers and colleagues at cybersecurity company RSA, it is called Shell Crew, and Myers’ team is …
Hunt for Deep Panda intensifies in trenches of U.S.-China cyberwar Read More »
Aspen Institute, Intel Security Critical Infrastructure Survey Shows 86% of Respondents Want More Public-Private Cooperation; Of Those who Experienced Cyberattacks, 59% Reported Physical Damage
Attivo Networks, an innovator in information security threat detection, today announced that Sarah Ashburn has joined the company’s executive leadership team as senior vice president of sales. Ashburn brings 25 years of sales and business operations experience at high-tech companies VMware, Symantec, and VERITAS Technologies.
As cybersecurity threats become increasingly more common and complex, businesses and governments globally are responding by trying to improve their defense infrastructure. Last week we looked at the way that Israel has risen to a global cybersecurity leader, and today we’ll discuss why the American South is another region that is leading the way in …
