Sharing and collaboration and open platforms are all great–but inevitably security will become an issue. Atlassian recently introduced new security features for Bitbucket to help organizations restrict access and protect sensitive code from unauthorized access. Collaboration is part of the […]
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Well thanks to WikiLeaks this week we now know those paranoid folks who wear the tinfoil hats and think their appliances are spying on them are largely right. I think it gets especially scary when the paranoid people actually turn
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Should an organization be subject to a data breach, it could be a big problem for those affected, yet the organization may not be mandated to offer any kind of compensation. In this scenario, the risks associated with such a
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Can we just assume at this point that there is no such thing as confidential or secret data? I mean, if it hasn’t been compromised and exposed yet, it seems like it’s only a matter of time and opportunity. The
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DNS amplification attacks have been used for several years. The Spamhaus attack of 2013 was the first large scale DDoS attack using DNS amplification. This attack reached up to 300Gbps and involved up to 30,000 open DNS resolvers. The attack
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A lack of qualified security professionals is putting businesses at risk of increasingly complex and dangerous cyber threats. “Every year the number of threats and the sophistication of those threats escalate,” says Alice Hill, Managing Director at Dice.com. “It’s a
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In the last few years we have seen several high-profile Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against political and financial targets. Many of us remember the attack against Occupy Central in 2014 and the attack against the Church of Scientology
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The reality is that it’s a Quixotic fantasy to believe you can ever prevent 100 percent of unauthorized access. I don’t mean to be a pessimist, but the simple fact is that your network or device will almost certainly be
Vera Launches New Tool to Protect Data in Your Email Read More »
To compete in a global marketplace, enterprises are outsourcing business processes and other services at an increasing rate. This trend has created the attack vector “du jour” for cyber criminals and experts estimate 50-plus percent of major breaches involve a
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I live near an intersection ruled by four-way stop signs. Driving through it often becomes an awkward experience. Some people stop for longer than necessary, disrupting the usual order while gesturing for other drivers: “No, you go.” Others blow through
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