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Photo gallery: Black Hat USA 2014 Business Hall
The Black Hat conference is underway at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, and the “business” part of the conference is bustling. Featured vendors and people: Qualys, …
SWSIS program awards cybersecurity scholarships to women
Responding to a shortage of cybersecurity professionals across the United States and a dearth of women in the field, Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA) and the …
Deploying and monitoring honeypots made easy
At the Black Hat conference, LogRhythm released a new analytics suite that monitors honeypots to track would-be attackers, enabling customers to analyze nefarious tactics and …
92% of brands fail email security test
The Online Trust Alliance (OTA), the non-profit with the mission to enhance online trust and empower users, announced the results of its 2014 Email Integrity Audit report, …
State of security: malicious sites, CryptoLocker copycats, email scams
AppRiver released its mid-year Global Security Report, a detailed analysis of web and email-borne threats and malware trends tracked between January and June 2014. During the …
Free service helps CryptoLocker victims get their files back
FireEye and Fox-IT announced DecryptCryptoLocker, a new service assisting victims of the CryptoLocker ransomware. Available immediately for no cost, the service can offer help …
Detect threat patterns across your web and mobile assets
During the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, RiskIQ announced an automated platform with global reach that enables organizations to discover, scan for malware and gather …
CrowdStrike launches Intelligence Exchange Program
At Black Hat, CrowdStrike announced the launch of the CrowdStrike Intelligence Exchange Program (CSIX). The exchange enables vendor partners to access and share threat …
Open source threat visualization engine for infosec pros
OpenDNS has released OpenGraphiti, an interactive open source data visualization engine that enables security analysts, researchers and data scientists to pair visualization …
DDoS attack volumes plummet as NTP servers got patched
Wise to attackers’ exploitation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) vulnerability to create distributed reflection denial of service (DrDoS) attacks, information security …
The weak links in an increasingly dynamic threat landscape
The Cisco 2014 Midyear Security Report, released today at Black Hat, examines the “weak links” in organizations – outdated software, bad code, abandoned …
NIST asks for comments on security guide for federal information systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public comment a draft update of its primary guide to assessing the security and privacy controls that …
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