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Credit to Author: Natasha Hellberg (Senior Threat Researcher)| Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:00:47 +0000
It started as a small idea. Get a bunch of good people together, away from the pressures of their offices, and see if they could address some of the issues operational security teams have to deal with. Better monitoring tools; better analysis tools; new ways to generate threat indicators and feeds. That first year was…
Credit to Author: John Brandon| Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 03:00:00 -0700
For security pros, spambots are known enemies. For the uninitiated, they are unknown entities. And yet they proliferate like ants at a picnic or teens on messaging apps. You might be receiving countless messages from bots every day, and even worse, a bot might be sending out unwanted emails from your computer right now, making you an unwilling participant in digitized mayhem.
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Get up to speed quickly on the potential use cases for blockchain technology, in industries such as healthcare, with Esmond Kane, deputy CISO at Partners Healthcare.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000
University of Washington researchers have shown just how cheaply spies can exploit ad networks for fine-grained, individualized surveillance.
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Credit to Author: DealPost Team| Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 06:32:00 -0700
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:00:00 +0000
University of Washington researchers have shown just how cheaply spies can exploit ad networks for fine-grained, individualized surveillance.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 19:39:52 +0000
The Krack Wi-Fi vulnerability exposes just how deeply broken IoT security really is—and just how limited the options are to repair it.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:55:24 +0000
When software standards aren’t open and available for researchers to vet, bad things happen. Just look at Krack.
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