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Intel Working on CPUs With Meltdown, Spectre Protections
2018-01-26 18:10

Intel is working on CPUs that will include built-in protections against the notorious Meltdown and Spectre attacks, CEO Brian Krzanich revealed on Thursday during a conference call discussing the...

PCI Council Introduces New Standard for Mobile Card Payments
2018-01-26 17:13

Responding to the market's growing interest in, and use of, mobile payments, the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has announced a new standard for software-based PIN entry on commercial...

Cryptocurrencies Fall After Hack Hits Japan's Coincheck
2018-01-26 16:55

Cryptocurrencies fell Friday after Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck suspended client deposits and withdrawals for virtual currencies except bitcoin, saying it had been hacked. read more

Data Privacy Concerns Cause Sales Delays: Cisco
2018-01-26 16:02

Nearly two-thirds of businesses worldwide have experienced significant delays in sales due to customer data privacy concerns, according to Cisco’s 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study. read more

Six Months in Jail for University Email Hacker
2018-01-26 13:35

A man who accessed over 1,000 email accounts maintained by a New York City-area university to download in appropriate photos and videos was sentenced to 6 months in prison this week. read more

New infosec products of the week​: January 26, 2018
2018-01-26 13:15

Empowering security teams with unlimited security data collection, indexing and search Exabeam Data Lake centralizes all relevant logs to reduce the work of collecting logs from multiple systems....

Good privacy is good for business, so pay attention
2018-01-26 13:00

Data privacy concerns are causing significant sales cycle delays for up to 65 percent of businesses worldwide, according to findings in the new Cisco 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study. The...

Cyber attacks surge, ransomware leading the way
2018-01-26 12:45

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) found that cyber incidents targeting businesses nearly doubled from 82,000 in 2016 to 159,700 in 2017. Since the majority of cyber incidents are never reported, OTA...

Rise in cryptomining malware impacts organizations worldwide
2018-01-26 12:30

Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to cryptominers to develop illegal revenue streams, while ransomware and malvertising adware continue to impact organizations worldwide, according to Check...