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Cloud security without borders
The cloud’s growing prevalence is drastically changing the way we do business and conduct our daily lives. As the digital exchange of business and personal information …
Risk Fabric: Automated predictive security analytics platform
In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2015, Anil Nandigam, Senior Director Product Marketing at Bay Dynamics, talks about Risk Fabric, an automated predictive security …
Cloud security: Integrated global CDN with DDoS mitigation and WAF
Applications are becoming more accessible on the web across all industries including gaming, e-commerce, software, and media. This is great for reaching new customers around …
IoT devices: The good, the bad and the ugly
Cognosec has revealed critical security flaws in ZigBee, one of the most popular wireless communication standards used by Internet of Things (IoT) devices today.Speaking at …
HTC phone stores fingerprints in easily accessible plaintext
Pressing a finger on your mobile phone’s fingerprint scanner has to be the easiest, most seamless way to unlock the device, and this is why more and more manufacturers …
The GasPot experiment: Hackers target gas tanks
Physically tampering with gasoline tanks is dangerous enough, given how volatile gas can be. Altering a fuel gauge can cause a tank to overflow, and a simple spark can set …
Vulnerabilities in 2015: 0-days, Android vs iOS, OpenSSL
Secunia has taken an early peek at the trend in vulnerabilities for 2015, and has presented the results at Black Hat USA 2015. Seven months into the year, the number of …
Easily exploitable Certifi-gate bug opens Android devices to hijacking
Check Point’s mobile security research team discovered a vulnerability in Android that affects phones, tablets and devices made by major manufacturers including LG, …
Photo gallery: Black Hat USA 2015, part 2
The Black Hat USA 2015 conference is underway at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. Take a peek at the happenings in the Business Hall.Featured vendors and …
GameOver Zeus gang boss also engaged in cyber espionage
Cyber crooks and cyber spies are often two distinct categories of attackers, but not always. Years-long research by the FBI, Fox-IT and Crowdstrike revealed that, at least in …
Zero-day disclosure-to-weaponization period cut in half
There’s no doubt about it: the batch of stolen information leaked in the wake of the Hacking Team breach was a boon for exploit kit developers.Not only did it contain a …
Android users rejoice! Security updates will be coming out faster
August 5, 2015, is the date that (hopefully) marks the beginning of one of the biggest positive changes in the Android ecosystem.Adrian Ludwig, Google’s lead engineer …
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