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In this episode, Michael Feiertag, CEO and co-founder of tCell, joins host Steve Ragan to talk about why application security is more critical than ever and why it's just now getting more attention from security teams.
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0000
Two-factor authentication is a must, but don’t settle for the SMS version. Use a more secure authenticator app instead.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 13:01:00 +0000
Russian meddling, Venmo privacy, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 03:00:00 -0700
Half a trillion dollars.
That’s the rough amount of money that counterfeiters displaced last year by selling phony products. Some 2.5% of all trade is for fake goods.
The United States is hit hardest by the scourge of counterfeit products — U.S. brands accounted in 2013 for 20% of the world’s infringed intellectual property.
When most people think about counterfeiting, they think of knock-off Louis Vuitton handbags sold on the sidewalk. But fake products also include business and enterprise products, as well as everyday consumer goods.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:14:53 +0000
Phishing attempts and DDoS attacks have begun hitting 2018 campaigns. The US seems ill-prepared to meet the challenge.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 15:24:42 +0000
One night this week, I came across one of my favorite movies Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The world had gone crazy after the reclusive Willy Wonka announces that he has hidden five golden tickets in chocolate Wonka Bars that promised a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate. There’s a scene at…
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:02:00 -0700
If you’re trying to apply this month’s patches — an exercise in futility that I continue to discourage — you may have found that this month’s patches and their documentation read like a da Vinci script, mirrored upside down and backwards.
Take this astounding bit of bafflegab, from the official Microsoft Exchange blog:
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 03:00:00 -0700
Pilot fish’s workplace is upgrading to use smart cards, but he’s not thinking about that when he sees a pop-up about an update — one that strikes fish as a little, um, fishy.
“I thought, if something like that was to occur and need user intervention, IT would have sent a notice out about it,” says fish.
“So a screen shot and email went off to IT security. They responded much faster than I expected, and in person: There was something wrong and they needed my laptop hard drives ASAP.”
Fish turns over his machine, and the next day he receives replacement hard drives. But it turns out his backup wasn’t configured for all the folders and file types he stores data in — and now he’s missing about a terabyte of data.