Security News

Anthem Breach Lesson: Why Granular Access Control Matters (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-14 14:17

Healthcare organizations can learn important lessons - including the need for granular data access control - from the costly proposed settlement of the breach lawsuit against health insurer...

Media Access Control (MAC) Standards for CSMA/CD (IT Toolbox Blogs)
2017-02-10 04:07

Media Access Control (MAC) Standards Overview (IT Toolbox Blogs)
2017-02-09 03:21

Duress Codes for Fingerprint Access Control (Schneier on Security)
2017-01-26 20:03

Mike Specter has an interesting idea on how to make biometric access-control systems more secure: add a duress code. For example, you might configure your iPhone so that either thumb or forefinger...

Simple Approach to Access Control: Port Control and MAC Filtering (SANS Reading Room)
2016-08-22 18:21

OIF Finds GSA Access Controls in Good Shape (August 12, 2016) (SANS Newsbites)
2016-08-16 18:51

PacketFence: Free and open source network access control (Help Net Security)
2016-02-22 14:00

PacketFence is a fully supported, free and open source network access control (NAC) solution. Its feature set includes a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and...

Getting Remote Code Exec and Remote Enrollment on FingerTec Biometric Access Control Devices (Reddit)
2016-01-08 03:25

Software-Defined Perimeter enables application-specific access control (Help Net Security)
2015-11-02 09:00

Back in the early 1990s enterprises migrated away from proprietary protocols such as DECnet, SNA, and Novell IPX to common standards such as IP. The motivation was the open nature of IP and access to ...

BLEKey Device Breaks RFID Physical Access Controls (Threatpost)
2015-08-06 20:42

A device called BEKey which is the size of a quarter and can be installed in 60 seconds on a proximity card reader could potentially be used to break physical access controls in 80 percent of deployments.