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Long-Range Familial Searching Forensics
2019-01-02 15:29

Good article on using long-range familial searching -- basically, DNA matching of distant relatives -- as a police forensics tool....

Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure Poise to Reshape Cyber Landscape
2019-01-02 15:22

It's Time for the Organizations Charged With Protecting Our Physical Infrastructure to Take Action and Fight Back read more

Vietnam's Draconian Cybersecurity Bill Comes Into Effect
2019-01-02 15:16

A law requiring internet companies in Vietnam to remove content communist authorities deem to be against the state came into effect Tuesday, in a move critics called "a totalitarian model of...

How Big is Your Digital Footprint Anyway?
2019-01-02 14:49

Those of us at a certain age (ahem) grew up in a simpler time. Email was largely unheard of. There was no social media, no Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. There was no e-commerce, no Amazon,...

Train for the fight against cybercrime at SANS London 2019
2019-01-02 14:48

Ten intensive courses promise to cover every angle Promo As new and ever more inventive threats keep crowding over the IT horizon, the security professional is under constant pressure to stay...

Open-source devs: Wget off your bloated festive behinds and patch this user cred-blabbing bug
2019-01-02 11:36

New year, new security fails, new CVE Happy New Year! Oh, and if you include GNU's wget utility in software you write, pull down the new version released on Boxing Day and push out updates to your users.…

It's Great to Go Straight
2019-01-02 11:03

Ex-Cybercriminal Brett Johnson Discusses Life as a Keynote SpeakerIt's good to be legal, according to Brett Johnson, formerly America's most wanted cybercriminal, as he reflects on a year of his...

What happens when a Royal Navy warship sees a NATO task force headed straight for it? A crash course in Morse
2019-01-02 10:37

Plus: Your vulture clocked the Northern Lights from the Arctic Circle Boatnotes What's it like aboard a warship? Aside from the glamorous bits when Russian jets are whizzing past and there's lots...

EU to Run Bug Bounty Programs for 14 Free Software Projects
2019-01-02 07:55

The European Union is offering a total of more than €850,000 – nearly $1 million – for vulnerabilities found in 14 widely used free and open source software projects. read more