Worldwide IT spending outlook for 2016
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.54 trillion dollars in 2016, just a 0.6 percent increase over 2015 spending of $3.52 trillion dollars, according to Gartner, Inc. …
LostPass: A worryingly simple phishing attack aimed at LastPass users
Security researcher (and Praesido CTO) Sean Cassidy has demonstrated at ShmooCon how easy it can be for hackers to steal LastPass users’ email, password, and two-factor …
Casino operator sues Trustwave for failing to spot and stop hackers
Nevada-based Affinity Gaming, which operates five casinos in that state and 11 altogether in the US, is suing infosec outfit Trustwave, claiming that the company did a poor …
Unexpected implications arising from the Internet of Things
More than half of major new business processes and systems will incorporate some element of the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2020, according to Gartner. The impact of the IoT …
Week in review: The danger of terror attacks using drones, cheap web cams as permanent backdoors into networks
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Wi-Fi and security are better together for SMBs As a small to midsized business …
OS X’s Gatekeeper bypassed again
Do you remember when, last October, Synack director of research Patrick Wardle found a simple way to evade OS X’s Gatekeeper defense mechanism by bundling up a …
250 Hyatt hotels around the world hit with PoS malware
In late December, the Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced that they found malware on computers that operate the payment processing systems for Hyatt-managed locations, but …
Success of the Internet of Things depends on privacy and security
Even as the Internet of Things (IoT) creates new usages, systems and ways to manage and store data, there is a parallel need for impermeable privacy policies and protection …
Flaw allows malicious OpenSSH servers to steal users’ private SSH keys
Qualys researchers have discovered two vulnerabilities in the popular OpenSSH implementation of the secure shell protocol, one of which (CVE-2016-0777) could be exploited by …
Compromised credentials a leading concern for most security pros
90% of organizations are worried about compromised credentials, though 60% say they cannot catch these types of attacks today, according to a new survey by Rapid7. 62% of …
Key principles for corporate digital responsibility
Businesses’ use of personal data from consumers is at risk and recommends key strategies and principles to properly protect consumer data, build trust and simultaneously grow …
Why the legal sector is risking confidential information
The lack of unique logins, manual logoffs and concurrent logins is putting confidential information in the legal sector at risk, new research has revealed. A report by IS …