Palo Alto Networks created an app designed to check our Android device to see if it suffers from a critical security vulnerability its researchers discovered more than a year ago. Palo Alto Networks just revealed details of the flaw this […]
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The first weekend of March Madness is behind us. Is your bracket completely trashed yet? After some upset victories in the early games Ritchie King at FiveThirtyEight.com calculates that a mere fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the
March Madness cybercrooks hope to bust more than just your brackets Read More »
Sometimes a piece of news comes across your desk that is too amazing to believe. You read it and think to yourself, “That can’t be true. No one with any professional savvy would ever make such an obvious mistake.” But
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Cylance is traveling across the country to 18 sites throughout March and April to demonstrate its security tools. The Unbelievable Tour registration page makes it sound like a must-see event: Everyone’s searching for it! A solution that CAN stop Advanced
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Most cyber attacks against a corporation aren’t conducted by a nation-state. Most cyber attacks against a corporation don’t seek to literally destroy data and PCs. The recent attack against Sony was not most attacks. I had a chance to talk
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You don’t have to know how to rebuild an engine even how to change your own oil to drive a car. You don’t have to understand how Intel fits billions of transistors on a processor the size of a postage
Sophos finds many ‘advanced’ malware attackers lack coding skills Read More »
Security is traditionally a game of “us vs. them”: defending resources and data inside some invisible perimeter from malicious attacks outside of that perimeter. Technology has evolved and attackers have adapted exploits and techniques, but the primary security model remains
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Cylance (a sponsor of this website) has earned the admirable distinction of joining both the Microsoft Virus Initiative (MVI) and Virus Information Alliance (VIA) groups. What makes Cylance unique is that it is the first next-generation security tool invited to
Cylance becomes first next-gen security tool recognized by Microsoft Read More »
Reduce, re-use, recycle. I guess that mantra also works for malware developers. A new study from CyActive found that many of the biggest malware campaigns of 2014 relied on re-used and recycled components. The question is why are the security
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Common password security practices suggest that use a unique, original password for every site and service, but I’ve maintained for years that you need to simplify by compartmentalizing passwords so you don’t have 200 different ones to remember. Sensitive accounts
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