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When entire regions are quarantined, home-bound people are overloading local switches, reducing international call quality and interrupting connectivity. This is having a measurable, negative impact on the audio quality of international calls and could be a harbinger of things to come.
Sameer Malhotra of TrueFort on Filling XDR Visibility GapsMoving from EDR to XDR creates new visibility gaps for organizations, says Sameer Malhotra of TrueFort, who explains a new approach to...
The RSA 2020 theme was "The Human Element." Gabriel Gumbs of Spirion describes what this means in the era of privacy regulations. What "The Human Element" means in the context of privacy;.
Although businesses are increasingly at risk for cyberattacks on their mobile devices, many aren't taking steps to protect smartphones and tablets. These companies were twice as likely to be compromised as those that didn't take precautions.
Cybersecurity firm Checkpoint has created an encyclopedia of the various techniques used by malware to evade analysis. The encyclopedia covers evasion techniques related to the file system, registry, generic OS queries, global OS objects, user interface artifacts, OS features, processes, network, CPU, firmware tables, hooks, hardware, and macOS-specific sandboxes.
Trump's appearance at HIMSS is "Unprecedented" - in that it's the first time a sitting president addressed the health IT conference, the organization notes. "Since our inception, HIMSS has been a nonpartisan organization whose mission is improving global health through information and technology, while providing insights and resources to our membership," HIMSS said in a statement Monday.
Emerging technologies being adopted by cities - like facial recognition, smart-city technologies like smart lighting, and 5G-driven IoT - are opening up municipalities to even more security and privacy threats. Tara Seals: So I wanted to talk to you a little bit about smart cities and municipalities in general and some of the security threats that they're facing.
Marcus Fowler of Darktrace on the Threat Landscape and the Security Roles for AI and MLMarcus Fowler of Darktrace discusses the 2020 U.S. presidential election cyberthreat landscape and the roles...
It looks like Switchzilla is moving swiftly to clear up the Krook bug discovered by ESET. Just hours after the researchers delivered their findings in a report, Cisco gave its own advisory on the Wi-Fi data snooping flaw. Missing C++ update opens security hole in Ubuntu 16.04.
A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company.