Security News > 2018 > November

How IAM is Evolving in the Blockchain Era
2018-11-05 07:48

Identity and access management is not about compliance anymore - It's really about security, says Gartner's Felix Gaehtgens. With cloud, virtualization, DevOps and other IT trends, IAM has evolved...

Ensuring election integrity: The overlooked last mile of securing voter data
2018-11-05 07:00

With 99 percent of America’s votes counted by computers, security experts agree that our elections remain extremely vulnerable for a cyberattack. Fourteen states are still using fragile voting...

The building blocks of blockchain-based digital identity
2018-11-05 06:45

In earlier articles, I discussed what a shared digital identity can do as well as which organizations are the right starting point to adopt a solution for digital identity built using blockchain...

Companies implementing DevSecOps address vulnerabilities faster than others
2018-11-05 06:30

A new study from CA Veracode includes promising signs that DevSecOps is facilitating better security and efficiency, and provides the industry with the company’s first look at flaw persistence...

Beagle free visual analytics tool helps bring cybercriminals to justice
2018-11-05 06:15

A team of researchers is helping law enforcement crack down on email scammers, thanks to a new visual analytics tool that speeds up forensic email investigations and highlights critical links...

Cyber-crooks think small biz is easy prey. Here's a simple checklist to avoid becoming an easy victim
2018-11-05 04:57

Make sure you're spending your hard-earned cash on the 'right' IT security Comment One of the unpleasant developments of the last decade has been the speed with which IT security threats, once...

Kemp Cites Voter Database Hacking Attempt, Gives No Evidence
2018-11-05 02:20

The office of Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is also the Republican gubernatorial nominee, said Sunday it is investigating the state Democratic Party in connection with an alleged attempt to...

Week in review: Bleedingbit, nastiest malware of 2018, Cisco security appliances under attack
2018-11-04 19:25

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: New techniques expose your browsing history to attackers Security researchers at UC San Diego and Stanford have...

Who’s In Your Online Shopping Cart?
2018-11-04 19:10

Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. In Internet ages past, this often meant obfuscating...

New Intel CPU Flaw Exploits Hyper-Threading to Steal Encrypted Data
2018-11-04 09:33

A team of security researchers has discovered another serious side-channel vulnerability in Intel CPUs that could allow an attacker to sniff out sensitive protected data, like passwords and...