Security News > 2015 > August

Who's afraid of shadow IT? (Help Net Security)
2015-08-31 09:00

One of the biggest disruptions in the IT world is the quantity and quality of SaaS tools. From email and storage, to phone systems and infrastructure, it has never been easier to use top of the range ...

CPU hardware performance counters for security (Help Net Security)
2015-08-31 08:15

In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2015, Nishad Herath, Principal Anti-Malware Technologist at Qualys, talks about CPU hardware performance counters, which allow us to do low latency performanc...

Hope is not a strategy, we need more healthy paranoia (Help Net Security)
2015-08-31 08:00

35 percent of security experts believe leadership within their organization lacks a healthy paranoia, with 21 percent of leadership "relying on hope as a strategy" to avoid a cyber security breach. ...

Should the removal of personal info posted online be a human right? (Help Net Security)
2015-08-31 07:30

69% of online Americans agree that the 'Right to be Forgotten' should be a human right, 29% think it allows for censorship. Only 16% think the 'right to be forgotten' is not practical. The 'Right t...

EMEA organizations are being pre-emptive about security (Help Net Security)
2015-08-31 07:00

In EMEA, organisations are being pre-emptive about security due to the increasing threat posed by targeted attacks. These threats take the form of cyber-attacks that lie dormant inside the network for...

5 reasons Security Congress is the (ISC)2 member event of the year (Help Net Security)
2015-08-31 06:30

The fifth annual (ISC)2 Security Congress, co-located with the 61st annual ASIS International Annual Seminar and Exhibits, is scheduled for September 28 through October 1 in Anaheim, California, U.S.A...