Cisco’s Webex Browser Extension contain a critical bug that can open up customers’ entire computers to remote code execution attacks if the browsers visit websites containing specially crafted malicious code.
Tim Greene | 26 Jan | Read more
IBM Security plans to buy San Francisco-based Agile 3 Solutions, which makes software for visualizing data risk for analysis by senior executives.
Tim Greene | 24 Jan | Read more
Pennsylvania says workers can’t collect damages from their employer if things like Social Security numbers, bank account information, birth dates, addresses and salaries are compromised in a data breach.
Tim Greene | 18 Jan | Read more
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says Donald Trump has tapped him to gather top cybersecurity leaders to meet with the administration regularly to share “all the information available in the private sector” with the goal of improving national cyber defenses “because we’re so far behind.”
Tim Greene | 13 Jan | Read more
The life of the corporate desktop team can turn into a legal nightmare quickly if end users haven’t agreed that it’s OK for techs to search their machines, something that has come to light in a California child pornography case involving Best Buy’s Geek Squad.
Tim Greene | 13 Jan | Read more
The raw intelligence documents published this week that contain salacious stories about Donald Trump also offer up a glimpse into how Russia goes about its cyber spying – including the tidbit that it has cracked Telegram’s encrypted instant messaging service.
Tim Greene | 12 Jan | Read more
A startup with a strong pedigree is trying to address the problem that businesses have keeping up with the ever-increasing options for authentication.
Tim Greene | 12 Jan | Read more
It took less than a week for criminals to drain virtually all publicly exposed MongoDB servers of their data, and now a second tier of opportunistic thieves is trying to walk off with the ransom.
Tim Greene | 12 Jan | Read more
Fortinet is adding Cisco, HPE and Nokia to its stable of partners whose security gear can share information with Fortinet products to improve overall security.
Tim Greene | 11 Jan | Read more
A $1 billion Russia-based criminal gang has been bilking online advertisers by impersonating high-profile Web sites like ESPN, Vogue, CBS Sports, Fox News and the Huffington Post and selling phony ad slots, but that’s about to end.
Tim Greene | 21 Dec | Read more
Security pros need to pay attention to malicious activities that don’t rely on actual malware to succeed, according to a study by Carbon Black.
Tim Greene | 16 Dec | Read more
Adultery dating service submits to 20 years of federal auditing of its information security.
Tim Greene | 15 Dec | Read more
Cyber incidents dominated headlines this year, from Russia’s hacking of Democrat emails to internet cameras and DVRs launching DDoS attacks, leaving the impression among many that nothing should be entrusted to the internet.
Tim Greene | 15 Dec | Read more
As some of the tech sector’s heaviest hitters prep for a meeting this week with president-elect Donald Trump, they need to make sure they get answers to critical questions about issues that could affect not only their businesses but the U.S. economy in general.
Tim Greene | 13 Dec | Read more
Donald Trump’s effect on cybersecurity after he’s sworn in as president will likely be toward military uses of cyber weapons and stronger tools for law enforcement to crack encryption, but the impact is hard to predict due to the vagueness of his proposals so far.
Tim Greene | 09 Dec | Read more