Welcome back to our monthly review of some of the most interesting security research publications. July was very busy with the annual DEFCON and BlackHat US conferences, but also RMLL, the Worldwide Free Software Meeting held this year in France. Past editions: June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 Elie Burzstein et al, How We Created the First SHA-1 collision and what it means for hash security video, DEFCON 25 slides and paper With the nickname "Crypto Girl", I obviously had to listen to this…
Credit to Author: Jack Chan| Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 03:00:00 +0000
In our last post we talked about some of the AI tools (AEE, AutoCPRL, etc.) that Fortinet has developed, and how the specialist teams at FortiGuard Labs around the world collaborate to detect, mitigate, and prevent threats of all shapes and sizes. But all of that happens in the background. How do these innovations and techniques translate into actionable tactics and strategies that decision-makers and CISOs can employ toda, to protect their IP, data, and networks from an increasing number of bad actors and adversaries? The key to cyber security…
I cannot recall a previous data breach in which the breached company’s public outreach and response has been so haphazard and ill-conceived as the one coming right now from big-three credit bureau Equifax, which rather clumsily announced Thursday that an intrusion jeopardized Social security numbers and other information on 143 million Americans.
Equifax, one of the “big-three” U.S. credit bureaus, said today that a data breach at the company may have affected 143 million Americans, jeopardizing consumer Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and some driver’s license numbers.