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How can you tell the difference between a legitimate email and a phishing attack? Host Steve Ragan shows what an Apple phishing attack looks like, screen by screen, showing the difference between the real and the fake.
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 03:23:00 -0700
Microsoft two weeks ago quietly added a security feature to Windows 10 Pro that initially was available only in the operating system’s most expensive edition.
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 03:00:00 -0700
This small IT consulting outfit gets a contract with a very, very big company — which is a very big deal, says a pilot fish at the consultancy.
“On a daily basis, a large text data file needs to get loaded into a very fast database, and that information is used to deal or not deal with certain customers,” fish explains. “And this all has to happen in real time.”
The big client is very security conscious, and it won’t let the consultancy download the data from the client’s site. Instead, a third-party site is used, and access is through a secure connection with a totally inscrutable password.
And on the first day, everything works fine. The big client puts the data on the site and fish’s company downloads the data, then keeps checking back periodically to see if anything has been added or changed.
Reporting from RSA 2018, host Steve Ragan helps dispel the hype and confusion surrounding the dark web, as he talks with Alon Arvatz, co-founder at IntSights.
Host Steve Ragan reports from the show floor at RSA 2018, taking with Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra Networks, and author of the Thinking Security blog on CSOonline.com, about the types of IT security work that can be off-loaded to artificial intelligence systems.
In this episode of CIO Leadership Live, host Maryfran Johnson talks with Jack Clare, CIO and chief strategy officer at Dunkin' Brands, about the company's mobile payment, ordering and loyalty apps, and how it's striving to improve customers' drive-through experience.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 15:24:38 +0000
Much of the fraud involving counterfeit credit, ATM debit and retail gift cards relies on the ability of thieves to use cheap, widely available hardware to encode stolen data onto any card’s magnetic stripe. But new research suggests retailers and ATM operators could reliably detect counterfeit cards using a simple technology that flags cards which appear to have been altered by such tools.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 03:00:00 -0700
It’s 1999, and in this IT department the big crisis isn’t Y2k, says a pilot fish there — it’s the Melissa virus.
“We were infected, and we were all called into the Emergency Operations Center to devise a strategy to determine the extent of infection and how to mitigate the effects,” fish says.
“The server admins were coming up with methods to clean up any servers that were affected. The desktop group was trying to figure out how many desktops were infected. We in the network group were trying to come up with a way to block traffic from the virus, both inbound and outbound, at the firewalls.
“Everything was moving as well as could be expected, but we had to give an update to senior leadership on progress.