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Demand for smart security is on the rise
75% of UK consumers own a smart home device or are considering a purchase, according to Swann. They also reveal that 72% believe smart home technology could improve their …

Week in review: Facebook data breach fallout, BEC-as-a-Service, true password behaviors
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: APTs are targeting IT service providers Managed service providers (MSPs) and cloud …

Safe IT/OT integration with unidirectional security gateways
The reason SCADA security is so controversial stems primarily from the intense consequences that come from a compromise in this area. In this podcast, Andrew Ginter, VP of …

Heading into October Patch Tuesday on the heels of big announcements from Microsoft
October is here and Patch Tuesday is next week, followed quickly by Halloween. Don’t be scared (unless you are a Facebook user)! The winds of change are blowing this fall …

BEC-as-a-Service: Hacked accounts available from $150
Digital Shadows has announced the findings of new research revealing the diversity of methods used to infiltrate company emails. The FBI has estimated that scams resulting …

Most enterprises highly vulnerable to security events caused by cloud misconfiguration
Fugue released the results of its Cloud Infrastructure Misconfiguration Report. The survey of more than 300 IT professionals revealed that most enterprises are highly …

Identity fraudsters are getting better and better at what they do
Socure, a provider of predictive analytics for digital identity verification, found that fraudsters have virtually eliminated reliable indicators for detecting fake identities …

Can we trust digital forensic evidence?
Research carried out at the University of York has suggested that more work is needed to show that digital forensic methods are robust enough to stand-up to interrogation in a …

Even with internal focus, most companies utilize external resources for cybersecurity
A greater reliance on metrics to measure success combined with enhancing skills across security teams can help organizations boost their cybersecurity effectiveness, according …

Bridging the priority gap between IT and security in DevOps
Let’s start with a test. Suppose that you manage a corporate network gateway across which a critical programmed transaction is scheduled to occur in exactly one hour. Suppose …

Most organizations believe hackers can penetrate their network
Radware released findings from its second annual web application security report, Radware 2018 State of Web Application Security. The report shares an in-depth view of the …

For some cloud services more than 75% of accounts are utilized by hackers
Researchers found that 21.57% percent of accounts originating from cloud service IP ranges appear to be fraudulent. Malicious accounts are eight times more likely to originate …
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