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CyberRX: First industry-wide healthcare cyber attack exercise

HITRUST will lead an industry-wide effort to conduct exercises to simulate cyber attacks on healthcare organizations, named CyberRX. The results will be used to evaluate the …

Mass-scale cleansing of co-opted computing devices

Cyber criminals are infecting innocent victims’ computing devices with crimeware at an alarming rate and with enormous costs. Technology solutions alone have not worked …

Key security program and budget data for CISOs

Benchmarking against similar organizations provides IT leaders with powerful tools to analyze departmental performance and gain executive management support. Since no …

An introduction to firmware analysis

This talk by Stefan Widmann gives an introduction to firmware analysis: It starts with how to retrieve the binary, e.g. get a plain file from manufacturer, extract it from an …

Week in review: Target breach expands, the security realities of the Internet of Things

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, videos, reviews and articles: How to make malware warnings more effective? An effective security …

Sefnit Trojan endangers users even after removal

Remember when in late August 2013 the Tor anonymity network was hit with a sudden and massive influx of active clients connecting to it? It was later discovered that the spike …

Personal info of 70 million Target customers compromised

Target today announced updates on its continuing investigation into the recent data breach. As part of Target’s ongoing forensic investigation, it has been determined …

EU committee asks Snowden to testify via video link

With an overwhelming vote of 36-to-2 (plus one abstention), the members of the European Parliament’s Justice and Civil Liberties Committee have decided to extend an …

Fear of data sharing on the rise

U.S. consumer attitudes and behavior related both to data sharing and social media oversharing have shifted significantly just within the last two years, according to a new …

Fake “Critical browser update” warnings lead to malware

If you have manually updated your browser in the last week or so, think back on how you did it. Did you look for the update yourself, or did you download one after being faced …

The basics of digital wireless communication

The aim of this talk by Clemens Hopfer from the 30th Chaos Communication Congress is to give an understandable insight into wireless communication, using existing systems as …

Barracuda Networks unveils Backup-as-a-Service

Barracuda Networks announced its new Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering, which allows Barracuda Backup 190 and 390 to be purchased as an annual service that includes an …

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