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Unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots and troubling browsing behaviors
As adoption of cloud and mobile continues to rise, common employee practices inside and outside the workplace create risk for enterprises. To uncover the risks posed by users’ …

Who is better prepared for IoT-related attacks, SMEs or large organizations?
Small and midsized organizations (SMEs) are taking more steps to protect themselves from security risks associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) than large businesses, …

Password Power Rankings: A look at the practices of 40+ popular websites
Nothing should be more important for these sites and apps than the security of the users who keep them in business. Unfortunately, Dashlane found that that 46% of consumer …

We can’t rely on black swans: Three areas to improve cyber policy now
What will it take for cybersecurity policy to finally catch up to the digital age? I get this question often, and increasingly I worry that it will take a true “black swan” …

Attacks on manufacturing industry continue to rise
The frequency and sophistication of cyber attacks continues to rise globally according to research data in the Q2 Threat Intelligence Report released by NTT Security. Four …

UK essential service operators with poor cyber security face massive fines
Organisations who fail to implement effective cyber security measures could be fined as much as £17 million or 4 per cent of global turnover, as part of plans to make …

Where does corporate cloud security responsibility begin and service provider responsibility end?
Security has, is and will continue to be the cornerstone of advancement in the digital age. Conditions of trust, real or expected, are essential for digital economies to grow …

Most organizations are not leveraging the benefits of business agility
Only 12 percent of organizations can claim that their whole organization is on the path to business agility, according to CA Technologies. The survey finds improved business …

Has healthcare misdiagnosed the cybersecurity problem?
Take a cursory look at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) wall of data breach shame and you might be scratching your head: Why does the healthcare sector …

Dash invites researchers to hack their blockchain
Thousands of security researchers will be incentivized to identify critical software vulnerabilities within Dash’s code and present them to the Dash Core Team for remediation. …

Week in review: MalwareTech arrested, hacking Amazon Echo
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: US senators introduce bill to improve IoT security, protect researchers …

Identity-in-depth and the evolution of defense
We’ve seen it over and over again: the parade of companies and government agencies announcing the impact of their latest breach. These players have something in common that …
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