Security News

U.S. Defense Contractor Exposes Sensitive Military Data (Security Week)
2017-06-01 09:22

Sensitive data belonging to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) was left exposed on the Internet by defense and intelligence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, a security firm...

Defense contractor stored intelligence data in Amazon cloud unprotected (ArsTechnica)
2017-05-31 20:00

Booz Allen Hamilton engineer posted geospatial intelligence to Amazon S3 bucket.

Google Boosts Gmail’s Defenses for Businesses (Security Week)
2017-05-31 19:57

Google today announced a series of improvements to Gmail’s security aimed at making the service better at protecting business data. read more

US Defense Contractor left Sensitive Files on Amazon Server Without Password (The Hackers News)
2017-05-31 11:20

Sensitive files linked to the United States intelligence agency were reportedly left on a public Amazon server by one of the nation's top intelligence contractor without a password, according to a...

Revised Active Defense Bill Allows Victims to Recover or Destroy Stolen Data (Threatpost)
2017-05-25 18:14

Rep. Tom Graves has revised a draft of the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act with new provisions that include mandatory notification and permission to recovery or destroy stolen data on the...

The next line of defense-How new security leverages virtualization to counter sophisticated threats (IT Toolbox Blogs)
2017-05-23 23:03

How to upgrade an ASA 5506-X to the new Firepower Threat Defense software (TechRepublic)
2017-05-15 19:18

Spectacular phishing attack pushes Google to improve defenses (Help Net Security)
2017-05-08 21:06

The most recent Google-themed phishing attack shouldn’t have come as a surprise, but it did – and has affected around a million Gmail users. As Google succinctly explained it: “Victims of this...

Ransomware Defense: The Do's and Don'ts (InfoRiskToday)
2017-05-05 19:33

Hackers Target Small Firms as Big Biz Toughens Cyber Defenses (InfoRiskToday)
2017-05-02 14:03