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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:55:08 +0000
You’re about to be able to turn on new encrypted calling features. But you may also want to turn off one that could leak your metadata. The post Encryption App Signal Adds Video Calls—And a New Privacy Tradeoff appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Blair Hanley Frank| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:52:00 -0800
Microsoft is calling for a Digital Geneva Convention, as global tensions over digital attacks continue to rise. The tech giant wants to see civilian use of the internet protected as part of an international set of accords, Brad Smith, the company’s president and chief legal officer, said in a blog post.
The manifesto, published alongside his keynote address at the RSA conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, argued for codifying recent international norms around cyberwarfare and for establishing an independent agency to respond to and analyze cyberattacks.
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Palo Alto Networks' CSO Rick Howard sits down at RSA 2017 with Infoworld's Fahmida Rashid to talk about what the Cybersecurity Canon is, and his top picks for inclusion this year.
Infoworld Senior Writer Fahmida Rashid chats with Palo Alto Networks' CSO Rick Howard about the biggest cybersecurity challenges facing businesses working in the cloud in 2017.
Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:13:00 -0800
What if all your company’s computers and applications were connected directly to the Internet? That was the assumption behind BeyondCorp, a new model for network security that Google proposed back in 2014, and it’s one that’s starting to get some attention from networking and security vendors.
Enterprises have moved beyond the traditional workspace in recent years, allowing employees to work remotely by using their personal devices and accessing apps in private or public clouds. To bring roaming workers back into the fold, under the security blanket of their local networks, companies rely on VPNs and endpoint software to enforce network access controls.
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Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:31:02 +0000
One of the key benefits of the cloud is focus. Spinning up a virtual server in the cloud lets you focus on the operations and security of the operating system, you applications, and your data. Similarly migrating to a SaaS productivity suite lets you focus on your data and getting work done. This is the…
Credit to Author: Dan S. Wallach and Justin Talbot-Zorn| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:30:35 +0000
Opinion: Dropping funding for the crucial Election Administration Commission is a particularly bad way to save money. The post Want Secure Elections? Then Maybe Don’t Cut Security Funding appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:00:08 +0000
As president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Snowden is helping the media beat state-sponsored hackers and government surveillance. The post Edward Snowden’s New Job: Protecting Reporters From Spies appeared first on WIRED.
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