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Blockchain for Identity Management: It's Years Away
2018-01-19 14:33

Why It Doesn't Fix Long-Running Access Management ProblemsTechnologists are wrangling with an identity puzzle: Is it possible to create a single digital identity that can be seamlessly and...

Infosec expert viewpoint: Google Play malware
2018-01-19 14:30

Researchers routinely discover a variety of malicious apps on Google Play, some of which have been downloaded and installed on millions of devices worldwide. Here’s what infosec experts think...

New infosec products of the week​: January 19, 2018
2018-01-19 13:55

Continuous vulnerability management for ICS cybersecurity PAS Cyber Integrity 6.0 now includes continuous vulnerability management providing visibility into vulnerability risk within industrial...

Firms More Open to Receiving Vulnerability Reports: Ethical Hackers
2018-01-19 13:35

Companies have become more open in the past year to receiving vulnerability reports from security researchers, according to ethical hackers surveyed by bug bounty platform HackerOne. read more

Strong Incident Response Starts with Careful Preparation
2018-01-19 13:26

Through working every day with organizations’ incident response (IR) teams, I am confronted with the entire spectrum of operational maturity. However, even in the companies with robust IR...

Ransomware: Why Some Victims With Backups Still Pay
2018-01-19 13:03

Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Why some organizations with working backups still choose to pay a ransom after suffering a cryptolocking malware attack. Also featured: The...

IT infrastructure spending for cloud environments to reach $46.5 billion in 2017
2018-01-19 13:00

Total spending on IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switches) for deployment in cloud environments is expected to total $46.5 billion in 2017 with year-over-year...

Dridex Campaign Abuses FTP Servers
2018-01-19 12:45

A recently observed email campaign is abusing compromised FTP servers as download locations for malicious documents and infecting users with the Dridex banking Trojan, Forcepoint has discovered.  read more

Security Breaches Don't Affect Stock Price
2018-01-19 12:06

Interesting research: "Long-term market implications of data breaches, not," by Russell Lange and Eric W. Burger. Abstract: This report assesses the impact disclosure of data breaches has on the...

Researchers Uncover Government-Sponsored Mobile Hacking Group Operating Since 2012
2018-01-19 10:48

A global mobile espionage campaign collecting a trove of sensitive personal information from victims since at least 2012 has accidentally revealed itself—thanks to an exposed server on the open...