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Is there a weak link in blockchain security?

Recent research revealed that blockchain is set to become ubiquitous by 2025, entering mainstream business and underpinning supply chains worldwide. This technology is set to …

DevSecOps
There’s a significant disconnect between DevOps capabilities and DevSecOps readiness

Retailers are putting their customer’s data at risk by failing to incorporate proper security controls in their new application development practices, according to the latest …

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Criminals are selling hacking services targeting world’s biggest companies

A new study – undertaken by Dr. Mike McGuire, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey, and underwritten by Bromium – provides details of first-hand …

DDoS
Global communications service providers struggling to fend off growing number of DDoS attacks

Global communications service providers, whose businesses are predicated on continuous availability and reliable service levels, are struggling to fend off a growing number of …

Workforce diversity key to plugging the IT skills gap

An (ISC)2 study of employees in 1,000 organizations in the U.K. and 250 in the Netherlands reveals that workplace diversity in IT and security has become a key operational …

dark
Trust nothing: A life in infosec is a life of suspicion

Like many before him, Amit Serper started his cybersecurity career in one of Israel’s intelligence agencies. Nine years later, he left for the private sector: he joined …

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How privileged insiders threaten the security of global organizations

A new global survey from BeyondTrust explores the visibility, control, and management that IT organizations in the U.S., APAC, Europe and the Middle East have over employees, …

payments
Will biometrics replace passwords for online payment authentication?

Over half of consumers in the UK (53 percent) are worried that the shift to biometrics to authenticate online payments will dramatically increase the amount of identity fraud, …

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Advancing transparency and accountability in the cybersecurity industry

NSS Labs, the Texas-based company that specializes in testing the world’s security products, has a new CEO. Jason Brvenik, the company’s CTO since early 2017, took over …

cloud complexity
Embrace chaos to improve cloud infrastructure resilience

Netflix is a champion of using chaos engineering to improve the resilience of its cloud infrastructure. That’s how it ensures its customers don’t have their Stranger Things …

firefighters
2018 in numbers: Data breaches cost $654 billion, expose 2.8 billion data records in the U.S.

Cybercriminals exposed 2.8 billion consumer data records in 2018, costing over $654 billion to U.S. organizations, according to ForgeRock. Cyberattacks to U.S. financial …

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Despite disclosure laws, cybercrime may be widely underreported

While attack vectors remain largely the same year over year, attack volume will increase and cybercrime may be vastly underreported, according to the 2019 State of …

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