Smart cities are exposed to old-school threats
Spurred by the false alarm that made Hawaii residents fear for their lives earlier this year, IBM X-Force Red and Threatcare researchers have decided to test several smart …
A botnet of smart irrigation systems can deplete a city’s water supply
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) cyber security researchers warn of a potential distributed attack against urban water services that uses a botnet of smart irrigation …
There’s a global divide in how organizations assess cyber risk
Nearly 48 percent of organizations globally have embraced strategic vulnerability assessment – defined as mature or moderately mature programs that include targeted and …
Cyber hygiene: Where do organizations fall behind on basics?
Tripwire released its State of Cyber Hygiene report, which examined how organisations are implementing security controls that the Center for Internet Security (CIS) refers to …
Photo gallery: Black Hat USA 2018
Black Hat USA 2018 is underway at Las Vegas. Here are a few photos from the Business Hall and the Arsenal. Featured companies: ZeroFOX, LogRhythm, Qualys, Rapid7, Irdeto, …
Should we add bugs to software to put off attackers?
A group of New York University researchers are testing a new approach to software security: adding more bugs to it instead of removing them. The idea is to “drown …
Nearly 15% of US security budgets go to remediating active compromises
Malwarebytes and Osterman Research have polled 900 senior IT decision-makers and IT security professionals in Australia, Germany, the US, UK, and Singapore about the impact of …
OpenEMR vulnerabilities put patients’ info, medical records at risk
A slew of vulnerabilities in OpenEMR allowed attackers to access random patients’ health records, view data from a target database, escalate their privileges on the …
Where should companies focus as they begin their machine learning journey?
As machine learning has become more widely adopted across industries, O’Reilly set out to learn more about how companies approach this work. By surveying more than 11,000 data …
Only 8% of orgs have effective DevSecOps practices
92 percent of organizations struggle to implement security into the entire DevOps process despite most saying they want to do so – a staggering capability gap exposed in …
Most IT decision makers believe AI is the silver bullet to cybersecurity challenges
New research from ESET reveals that three in four IT decision makers (75%) believe that AI and ML are the silver bullet to solving their cybersecurity challenges. In the past …
Hashcat developer discovers simpler way to crack WPA2 wireless passwords
While looking for ways to attack the new WPA3 security standard, Hashcat developer Jens “Atom” Steube found a simpler way to capture and crack access credentials …
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