ISACA survey shows security disconnect for breaches, wearables
"This year was the year of the breach," ISACA international president Robert Stroud told CSO Online.
Maria Korolov | 14 Nov | Read more
"This year was the year of the breach," ISACA international president Robert Stroud told CSO Online.
Maria Korolov | 14 Nov | Read more
A mixture of excitement and danger. No, I'm not talking about a theme-park thrill ride, I'm talking about the future of technology as seen by users surveyed for Intel Security's Safeguarding the Future of Digital America in 2025. Here's a peek at some of the things people think will happen within the next decade:
Tony Bradley | 08 Nov | Read more
The number of attempts by hackers to compromise computers through the Shellshock vulnerability is rising, but companies have options for defending against attackers.
Antone Gonsalves | 30 Sep | Read more
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas earlier this month, researchers demonstrated how a Nest thermostat can be hacked, to show how easily connected appliances--the household technologies that make up the Internet of Things--can be compromised. When you look beyond the demo's hyperbolic headlines, it turns out the hack requires physical access to the Nest device, but the questions remains, "How vulnerable is IoT?"
Tony Bradley | 23 Aug | Read more
After twenty years, a vulnerability in Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO), an extremely efficient compression algorithm, has finally been patched. The flaw, a subtle integer overflow, existed for as long as it did because of the practice of recycling code in the development community.
Steve Ragan | 27 Jun | Read more
There's a "digital business" revolution coming and IT security professionals need to grasp the significance early on to be prepared to address whatever security needs arise. That was the message from Gartner analyst Jorge Lopez in the closing keynote at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit today.
Ellen Messmer | 27 Jun | Read more
Gartner has kicked off its annual Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2014 in National Harbor, Maryland, by pointing to the top threat challenges heading into next year -- and added that in the future, the term IT security will give way to "digital security" to encompass newer challenges, such as the Internet of Things.
Ellen Messmer | 24 Jun | Read more
The Consumer Product Safety Commission today issued a complete recall of all Nest Protect Smoke + CO alarm systems, over an issue that could silence the devices at a critical time.
Size matters. Which is one of the main reasons the Internet of Things (IoT) is, and is likely to remain, a very dangerous place.
Taylor Armerding | 09 May | Read more
Just because something is scary doesn't mean it's a figment of your paranoid imagination.
Taylor Armerding | 09 May | Read more
Gartner predicts that IoT (internet of things) security requirements will "reshape and expand" over half of all global enterprise IT security programmes by 2020.
Antony Savvas | 03 May | Read more
The Internet has been abuzz for the last week or so in response to the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL. While almost all of the attention has centered on patching Web servers and advising users to change their passwords, security researchers have discovered that individual client PCs and devices are also at risk thanks to "Reverse Heartbleed."
Tony Bradley | 15 Apr | Read more
Everybody from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to a unanimous crowd of security experts has been issuing increasingly insistent warnings that security is not being taken seriously in the explosive development of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Taylor Armerding | 12 Apr | Read more
We've all heard the same story recently – malware developers and distributors are becoming far smarter and commercially minded than ever before. The days of disgruntled teenagers hacking from their dimly lit bedrooms are behind us with corporatised criminal gangs now working as organized syndicates intent on stealing identities and extorting money.
Anthony Caruana | 24 Mar | Read more
Amongst the key themes covered at the recent Connect 2014 event in Melbourne were the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine communications.
Anthony Caruana | 18 Mar | Read more