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A historical overview of the cyberattack landscape

Over the past 16 years, sensitive data and the complex IT infrastructure within Global 2000 enterprises used to create, distribute, and protect it has grown exponentially. …

Major vulnerabilities in office security and RFID systems

At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, researchers will reveal critical vulnerabilities in many of the world’s most widely-used building security systems and …

Researcher sets up honeypot to counterattack, identifies attackers

I believe that most infosec professionals have, at one time or other, wished they could fight back when some of the resources they are tasked with protecting came under attack …

Can the Nuclear exploit kit dethrone Blackhole?

In a market dominated by the mega-popular Blackhole exploit kit (newly upgraded to version 2.0) and the somewhat less sought-after Eleonore and Phoenix exploit packs, can the …

1,500 severe security events detected on Black Hat WLAN

The WLAN network at Black Hat was accessed by 3,155 attendees with a maximum of 904 simultaneous clients, detected and quickly contained a total of 1,561 severe independent …

Researchers beat Google’s Bouncer

When earlier this year Google introduced Bouncer – an automated app scanning service that analyzes apps by running them on Google’s cloud infrastructure and …

Detect and shut down rogue mobile apps

To counter the emergence of malicious and unauthorized apps appearing on mobile app stores, RSA introduced the RSA FraudAction Anti Rogue App Service designed to detect and …

First holistic security platform unveiled at Black Hat

AccessData released Cyber Intelligence & Response Technology 2 (CIRT 2), a platform that integrates network and computer forensics, malware analysis, large-scale data …

Hidden security risks of top mobile apps

Appthority cast a spotlight on the hidden behaviors of the top free mobile apps. The report reveals the security issues raised by the BYOD movement, app market fragmentation …

CryptoAuditor: Privileged user access auditing

SSH Communications Security launched CryptoAuditor at the Black Hat USA 2012 conference. It helps prevent data loss across encrypted secure shell, RDP and SFTP traffic with …

Microsoft Security Toolkit delivers new defensive technology

Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group today released the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 3.5 Technology Preview, which includes new Return Oriented …

Free advanced evasion technique testing software

Stonesoft released Evader, the first software-based testing tool that empowers organizations to test their network security solutions’ ability to withstand advanced …

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