Security News

DHS Orders U.S. Federal Agencies to Audit DNS Security for Their Domains
2019-01-23 07:48

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has today issued an "emergency directive" to all federal agencies ordering IT staff to audit DNS records for their respective website domains, or...

DoD Lacks Visibility into Software Inventories, Audit Finds
2018-12-19 16:11

The U.S. Department of Defense lacks visibility into software inventories, a review of Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force commands and divisions reveals. read more

Super Micro: Audit Didn't Find Chinese Spying Chip
2018-12-14 10:18

Firm Says Audit 'Lays to Rest the Unwarranted Accusations'Super Micro says a third-party audit of recent and older motherboards has not turned up evidence of a spying chip as alleged in an...

Making Internal Audits More Relevant
2018-12-13 13:48

Wockhardt's Prasanna Bharatan on Why Audits Often Are Not MeaningfulHow can improve internal audits be improved and made more meaningful? Prasanna Bharatan, internal auditor at the pharmaceutical...

Symantec comes out in swinging in bitter legal battle over security bug audit conspiracy claims
2018-11-29 08:03

Profit driving NSS claims of industry boycott, antivirus makers swear Symantec says the biz that accused it of conspiring with others to avoid independent security audits is "less than honest" and...

Why you need to know about Penetration Testing and Compliance Audits?
2018-11-15 15:18

We live in an age where data flows like water, becoming the new life source of our everyday ventures. As such, you can just imagine what all of that entails and the weight that data receive,...

Top data and analytics risks that will concern audit executives in 2019
2018-10-26 05:15

Risks surrounding data and analytics are the primary concerns of chief audit executives (CAEs) for 2019, according to Gartner. Based on a survey of 144 CAE clients, Gartner has identified the...

Ohio taps college cybersecurity experts to audit election systems before 2018 midterms
2018-10-11 14:50

Called 'Pathfinders,' these security officials are conducting risk assessments and mitigating vulnerabilities in voting systems.

Audit Finds No Critical Flaws in Firefox Update System
2018-10-11 14:20

An audit commissioned by Mozilla for the Firefox update system revealed no critical vulnerabilities and the flaws rated "high severity" were not easy to exploit. read more

EU Lawmakers Push for Cybersecurity, Data Audit of Facebook
2018-09-28 14:04

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers appear set this month to demand audits of Facebook by Europe's cybersecurity agency and data protection authority in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica...