Inside an Epic Hotel Room Hacking Spree
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +0000
A vulnerability in hotel keycard locks was a security disaster—and a huge opportunity for one burglar.
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Month: August 2017
Why the Financial Sector Needs to Focus on Automating Threat Intelligence
Credit to Author: Bill Hogan| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 07:00:00 +0000
Threat intelligence is a necessary part of threat detection, yet is often ignored. Learn why financial institutions must focus on building their architecture for automated threat intelligence.
Read MorePepe the Frog’s Creator Gets Alt-Right Children’s Book Pulled, Vows to ‘Aggressively Enforce His Intellectual Property’
Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 21:11:30 +0000
All profits from the book will go to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Read MoreTech Firms Team Up to Take Down ‘WireX’ Android DDoS Botnet
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:06:08 +0000
A half dozen technology and security companies — some of them competitors — issued the exact same press release today. This unusual level of cross-industry collaboration caps a successful effort to dismantle ‘WireX,’ an extraordinary new crime machine comprising tens of thousands of hacked Android mobile devices that was used this month to launch a series of massive cyber attacks. Experts involved in the takedown warn that WireX marks the emergence of a new class of attack tools that are more challenging to defend against and thus require broader industry cooperation to defeat.
Read MoreIs Your Mobile Carrier Your Weakest Link?
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 02:46:42 +0000
More online services than ever now offer two-step authentication — requiring customers to complete a login using their phone or other mobile device after supplying a username and password. But with so many services relying on your mobile for that second factor, there has never been more riding on the security of your mobile account. Below are some tips to ensure your mobile device (or, more specifically, your mobile carrier) isn’t the weakest link in your security chain.
Read MoreThree Ways to Improve Regulatory Compliance in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Credit to Author: Keith Chambers| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:45:22 +0000
Pharmaceutical companies in the market today need to comply with a huge array of regulations –in most regions, manufacturers must follow Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), as well as Good Documentation… Read more »
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Read MoreExtend Protection to VMWare Cloud on AWS with Trend Micro™ Deep Security™
Credit to Author: David Clement| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:00:33 +0000
On August 28th at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, VMware announced initial availability for their unique offering called ‘VMware Cloud on AWS’ allowing customers to run VMware workloads on the AWS cloud. This means customers can take advantage of agile cloud infrastructure all the while maintaining their familiar VMware tools, skill sets and architecture framework…
Read The First Chapter of ‘The Winds of Winter,’ Written By a Neural Network
Credit to Author: Zack Thoutt| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:41:58 +0000
A programmer taught an artificial intelligence how to write the next entry in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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