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Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000

What happens to online accounts when we die? Not a cheerful subject by any stretch of the imagination, but the good news is there are options available—some, a little more sensible than others.

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March 9, 2018 admin

How artificial intelligence and machine learning will impact cybersecurity

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:06:28 +0000

Both artificial intelligence and machine learning are being adopted in cybersecurity. But before they achieve mainstream traction, it’s important to discuss their impact to the industry.

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Tags: adversarial AI artificial intelligence cybersecurity machine learning ML

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March 8, 2018 admin

International Women’s Day: Women in tech share their stories

Credit to Author: Wendy Zamora| Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:00:00 +0000

On International Women’s Day, we highlight six women in tech who’ve faced discrimination. Read their stories on how they handled it in the moment and what advice they have for other women in the industry.

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Tags: gender issues international women’s day sexism in tech women in tech

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March 8, 2018 admin

The state of Mac malware

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:01:00 +0000

Mac users are often told that there are no Mac viruses. In reality, Mac malware does exist, as we’ll see in this summary of 2018 Mac threats.

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Tags: Apple mac mac malware macOS osx Thomas Reed

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March 7, 2018 admin

Building an incident response program: creating the framework

Credit to Author: Paul Kincaid| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:00:32 +0000

An incident response plan does not need to be overly complicated. However, having a solid and tested framework for the program is key in the ability of an organization to respond to and survive a security incident.

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Tags: gdpr General Data Protection Regulation Incident Response incident response framework incident response program

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March 6, 2018 admin

Encryption 101: How to break encryption

Credit to Author: Vasilios Hioureas| Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:10:34 +0000

Continuing on in our Encryption 101 series, we now look at what it takes to break encryption. In order for something as powerful as encryption to break, there needs to be some kind of weakness to exploit. That weakness is often a result of an error in implementation.

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Tags: break encryption encryption encryption functionality random number generator

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March 5, 2018 admin