Chances are your latest data breach could have been prevented. Hackers typically exploit well-known vulnerabilities. Zero-day attacks are actually quite rare, especially for commercial enterprise targets. Companies still struggle to have a realistic picture of their defenses; to know where […]
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WebRTC or Web Real-Time Communication is a communications protocol that enables users to communicate with each other on the web. The functionality requests resources you search for from backend servers and brings forth search results regarding your queries. Previously, if
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If anything has been clear in the last couple of years, it’s that the barriers to becoming a successful cybercriminal keep coming down. Internet connectivity is more accessible, technology is more affordable, and traditionally ‘dumb’ devices are smarter. This has
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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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One of the interesting announcements this week was Watson For Cybersecurity. While it has been rumored that Watson has been tied to DOD and Intelligence efforts for some time this is the first time we’ve seen Watson’s powerful AI engine
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With digital advancements you would expect some progress in halting cybercrime. But wait!! The graph of data breach statistics was trending up as the year progressed. While we hoped for a more secure year for our online world, the scammers showed us
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While nobody will argue that Donald doesn’t know his way around a 140-character tweet, I think it’s fair to say cybersecurity experts and the US Intelligence Community know more about hacking than he does–by an order of magnitude or more.
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It seems like corporate networks and data are under siege from all angles. Security professionals need to defend against a vast threat landscape that includes external hackers, rogue apps, and insider attacks–both intentional and inadvertent. With limited resources to work
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It is ironic that no tech topic is as befuddling to people as the cloud, and yet in reality most of us use it in some form or another many times a day, via all the various apps and services
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Time Inc. confirmed just before the Memorial Day weekend that data was compromised from the MySpace social network. The company issued a statement that the compromised data is limited to MySpace usernames, passwords and email addresses from an old version
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