In part one of our two-part series, we explored how biometric authentication methods are being defeated. In the second part, we’ll explore how manipulating biometrics can alter society, and what can be done to avoid a biometric dystopia. Biometric authentication secures access to most consumer phones, many laptops and PCs, and even physical …
If you ask Yago Hansen, a hacker specialized in Wi-Fi and RF security, curiosity and a willingness to learn and improve your skills are the two things that you absolutely must have to embark on a (white hat) hacking career. A love for money, on the other hand, is not. “In my mind, hackers are security researchers who spend a lot of their …
Cybersecurity is usually not a user’s primary duty, yet they suffer an increasing burden to respond to security warnings, maintain many complex passwords, and make security decisions for which they are not equipped. This is the main reason why security needs to be usable and why the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a …
Financial institutions are in a fully-fledged war against data breaches. And rightly so – the finance sector is a frequent target of ransomware, phishing, and other malicious attacks. Sensitive communications are particularly vulnerable, with thousands getting leaked every year. Yet at the same time, championing email security in the finance …
The sheer volume of data created by the Internet of Things (IoT) is increasing dramatically as …
In this Help Net Security podcast, Marco Rottigni, Chief Technical Security Officer for Qualys …
A researcher has released proof-of-concept code for a critical code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-11580) in Atlassian Crowd, a centralized identity management solution providing single sign-on and user identity. Atlassian plugged the hole in …
The inability to adequately assess and understand the risks that vendors pose is becoming incredibly costly to healthcare providers, according to a new report by Censinet and the Ponemon Institute. According to the research, the yearly hidden …
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly finding applications in nearly every walk of life. Self-driving cars, social media networks, cybersecurity companies, and everything in between uses it. But a new report published by the SHERPA consortium …
In this Help Net Security podcast, Marco Rottigni, Chief Technical Security Officer for Qualys across EMEA, talks about the importance of IT asset management within digital transformation processes. He illustrates why it’s crucially …
The sheer volume of data created by the Internet of Things (IoT) is increasing dramatically as the world is becoming progressively more connected. There is projected to be a mind-boggling 75 billion IoT devices in the world by 2025. Meanwhile, …
In part one of our two-part series, we explored how biometric authentication methods are being defeated. In the second part, we’ll explore how manipulating biometrics can alter society, and what can be done to avoid a biometric dystopia. …
Digital technologies such as cloud computing, big data, data analytics, IoT, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and blockchain are gradually being leveraged in the defense industry at both agency and operational levels as change …
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has published an update of its internationally recognized Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). CVSS is a common scoring system designed to provide open and universally standard …
DefenseStorm, a leading cloud-based cybersecurity and cybercompliance management provider to regional and community banks and credit unions, announced that it has raised $15M in a Series A financing round led by Georgian Partners. Justin …
Understanding the risks to your most sensitive data begins with understanding the mindset of the hackers attacking it. Knowing why they do it can help identify where and how they will attack. This report gets inside the mind of a hacker, …
