TENAFLY, N.J. - Wireless cameras, RFID key cards, keyboards, cordless phones, just about every wireless technology that isn?t light- or sound-based will attract a hoard of researchers (and attackers) looking at ways to exploit them. Are you prepared? It is now known that your car?s GPS, toaster and medical devices are vulnerable to attack. For
WASHINGOTN DC - AT&T reportedly has a contract with the CIA to provide the agency with data on certain phone calls. Citing information from unnamed government officials, The New York Times said that AT&T receives more than $10 million a year from the Central Intelligence Agency in exchange for providing customer phone records used to
WASHINTON DC - Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reportedly gained access to classified data after persuading several co-workers to reveal their passwords. As many as 20 to 25 workers at a National Security Agency base in Hawaii revealed their login credentials to Snowden, allowing him to obtain some of the documents that he eventually leaked
SAN FRANCISCO - Internet Bug Bounty challenges you to hack your way into such critical Web platforms as OpenSSL, PHP, Perl, and Apache for the chance to earn as much as $5,000. Sponsored by Microsoft and Facebook, one challenge even invites you to hack the Internet itself, meaning finding a bug that affects a wide
TENAFLY, N.J. - Cloud security provider HyTrust Inc. said on Thursday it had acquired HighCloud Security for an undisclosed sum, striking a deal it said would round out its security offering. The move follows HyTrust?s $18.5M Series C financing round in August and comes as enterprises increasingly deploy private cloud services. HyTrust said that it
TENAFLY, N.J. - Insurance fraud. Identity theft. Financial fraud. These are just a few of the risks associated with storing personal healthcare information online. Healthcare organizations hold some of the most private and sensitive information, and if it were to be comprised, a breach of this data could have serious repercussions for individuals and organizations
BIRMINGHAM - If you are like me you completely discount official protests as posturing. In this age of suspicion of all politicians there is not much to be read into the President of Brazil, angry about spying, canceling a state visit to the United States, or the governments of Germany, Spain and France summoning their
LIVONIA ? Selling Risk Management Internally and gaining support For your program are the topics on Nov. 21 at the ISSA Motorcity Chapter meeting at Schoolcraft College. Stephen Marchewitz, President of SecureState, will talk about the Risk Based Approach to Security Management. To pull it off, you need support from senior management to make the
SAN FRANCISCO - Hundreds of protests around the world sparked up on Tuesday in what the hacking collective Anonymous called the "Million Mask March." Donning Guy Fawkes masks, the demonstrators' goal was to "defend humanity." The protests were scheduled for 450 cities and towns worldwide -- from Tampa, Fla., to Amsterdam to Mumbai, CNET News.Com
TENAFLY, N.J. - No business can avoid ?the cloud.? Some embrace cloud based services with enthusiasm as a formal way of delivering all or part of a given organization?s IT requirements, whilst others grudgingly accept them because it is near impossible to stop individual users or lines of business from building them in to business