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Credit to Author: Blair Hanley Frank| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:52:00 -0800

Microsoft is calling for a Digital Geneva Convention, as global tensions over digital attacks continue to rise. The tech giant wants to see civilian use of the internet protected as part of an international set of accords, Brad Smith, the company’s president and chief legal officer, said in a blog post.

The manifesto, published alongside his keynote address at the RSA conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, argued for codifying recent international norms around cyberwarfare and for establishing an independent agency to respond to and analyze cyberattacks.

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The Cybersecurity Canon

Palo Alto Networks' CSO Rick Howard sits down at RSA 2017 with Infoworld's Fahmida Rashid to talk about what the Cybersecurity Canon is, and his top picks for inclusion this year.

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Cybersecurity and the Cloud in 2017

Infoworld Senior Writer Fahmida Rashid chats with Palo Alto Networks' CSO Rick Howard about the biggest cybersecurity challenges facing businesses working in the cloud in 2017.

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Forget the network perimeter, say security vendors

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:13:00 -0800

What if all your company’s computers and applications were connected directly to the Internet? That was the assumption behind BeyondCorp, a new model for network security that Google proposed back in 2014, and it’s one that’s starting to get some attention from networking and security vendors.

Enterprises have moved beyond the traditional workspace in recent years, allowing employees to work remotely by using their personal devices and accessing apps in private or public clouds. To bring roaming workers back into the fold, under the security blanket of their local networks, companies rely on VPNs and endpoint software to enforce network access controls.

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Want Secure Elections? Then Maybe Don’t Cut Security Funding

Credit to Author: Dan S. Wallach and Justin Talbot-Zorn| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:30:35 +0000

Opinion: Dropping funding for the crucial Election Administration Commission is a particularly bad way to save money. The post Want Secure Elections? Then Maybe Don’t Cut Security Funding appeared first on WIRED.

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Edward Snowden’s New Job: Protecting Reporters From Spies

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:00:08 +0000

As president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Snowden is helping the media beat state-sponsored hackers and government surveillance. The post Edward Snowden’s New Job: Protecting Reporters From Spies appeared first on WIRED.

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Cybersecurity alliance promoting intel-sharing seeks to expand

Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:48:00 -0800

The Cyber Threat Alliance, a group of security firms that often compete, is seeking to expand. In an effort to recruit more members, the Cyber Threat Alliance is announcing that it’s become a not-for-profit. In addition, a former White House official will be its new leader.

Rivals including Fortinet, Intel Security, Palo Alto Networks and Symantec originally entered into the alliance over two years ago, even as doubts arose over whether it would last.

The intelligence sharing between the vendors will also accelerate. Before it was done manually, and involved sharing 1,000 malware samples each day. But alliance members have built a platform that will now automate the information sharing in real-time.

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Researcher develops ransomware attack that targets water supply

Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:35:00 -0800

A security researcher is showing that it’s not hard to hold industrial control systems for ransom. He’s experimented with a simulated water treatment system based on actual programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and documented how these can be hacked.

David Formby, a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology, conducted his experiment to warn the industry about the danger of poorly secured PLCs. These small dedicated computers can be used to control important factory processes or utilities, but are sometimes connected to the internet.

For instance, Formby found that 1,500 of these industrial PLCs are accessible online, he said while speaking at the RSA cybersecurity conference on Monday. It’s not hard to imagine a hacker trying to exploit these exposed PLCs, he added. Cybercriminals have been infecting businesses across the world with ransomware, a form of malware that can hold data hostage in exchange for bitcoin.

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