Collaborate Disseminate
In 1801, the United States had a small Navy. Thomas Jefferson deployed almost half that Navy—three frigates and a schooner—to the Barbary Coast of northern Africa. The Barbary States had been the scourge of the seas for centuries. They raided coastal … Continue reading Barbary Pirates and Russian Cybercrime
Speculation swirled over why the prolific and dangerous REvil ransomware went offline – blog, payment processing, all suddenly went kaput – it’s important not to lose sight of the bigger issues. While the ransomware is gone, at least for the time bein… Continue reading Where Did REvil Ransomware Go? Will it Be Back?
Salt Security, a provider of a platform for securing application programming interfaces (APIs), today published a report that reveals the existence of vulnerabilities in APIs in an unidentified platform employed widely in the financial services indust… Continue reading Salt Security Report Highlights Prevalence of API Vulnerabilities
Amazon’s Ring unit is moving ahead with plans to allow end-to-end encryption (E2EE).
The post Finally! Ring Doorbells get End-to-End Encryption, but There’s a Big Catch appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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For those security professionals who work to mitigate enterprise software vulnerabilities, it may often seem like Groundhog Day—patching and mitigating the same types of vulnerabilities over and over again. As a just-released report from crowdsourced … Continue reading Despite Pen Testing Efforts, Stubborn Vulnerabilities Persist
Domains impersonating companies and their brand names still pose a significant threat—research from Digital Shadows released today found that on average 1,100 fake websites are registered against individual organizations annually. And with commercial … Continue reading Spoofed Domains Still a Persistent Threat
A good way to monitor the overall health of the IT security industry is to track the publicly traded companies in the space. I previously reported on the performance of 20 cybersecurity companies in 2020. This is an update on those 20 companies with t… Continue reading How Public Cybersecurity Companies Performed in 1H 2021
Remember WYSIWYG? What you see is what you get. That was a simpler time in technology; you knew what the end result would be during the development stage. There were no surprises. Technology moved on, though. Now, the mantra should be, “don’t automati… Continue reading Propaganda as a Social Engineering Tool
The space community is growing rapidly and Microsoft’s Space team is developing capabilities and services to meet its needs for extended connectivity across the world, simulated digital space environments, and ways for dealing with the huge amoun… Continue reading How Microsoft is taking cloud-powered innovation beyond Earth with Azure Space
Data compromises have increased every month this year except May. If that trend continues, or even if there is only an average of 141 new compromises per month for the next six months, the total will still exceed the previous high of 1,632 breaches se… Continue reading Phishing, Ransomware Driving Wave of Data Breaches