Security News

Tech Companies Partner to Securely Connect IoT to Cloud
2020-03-17 18:52

With billions of IoT devices transferring data to and from the cloud, ensuring security requires both the IoT cloud service and the device to trust the received data. Mutual authentication ensures that the device and the cloud trust each other, but the fragmentation of the IoT market means that security services scalability and duplication are very limited.

Tech Must Be Treated Like Tobacco, Says Facebook Whistleblower
2020-03-12 12:03

Facebook and other tech companies need to be regulated like the tobacco industry, warned Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who exposed the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The data scientist revealed how he helped the disgraced company, founded by Donald Trump's former right-hand man Steve Bannon, to use unauthorised personal data harvested from Facebook to help swing a string of elections, including Trump's US presidential win in 2016.

Exabeam employees at RSA tech conference in San Francisco stricken with COVID-19
2020-03-11 14:27

Both tested positive for COVID-19 after attending RSA in San Francisco. The two Exabeam employees who were diagnosed with coronavirus after attending the RSA tech conference, which ran from Feb. 24-28 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, are on the road to recovery.

California tech industry gets its first big coronavirus hit: RSA Conference attendee infected, in serious condition
2020-03-10 20:36

The deadly novel coronavirus has reached California's tech sector with the news that an engineer who attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco last month has now tested positive for COVID-19 - and is in a serious condition. The RSA Conference is significant with roughly 40,000 attendees.

Phone carriers may soon be forced to adopt anti-robocall tech
2020-03-10 11:04

US carriers haven't been doing enough to block robocalls, according to the Federal Communications Commission, so its chairman, Ajit Pai, has proposed a set of rules that would force carriers to block robocalls. In November 2018, Pai asked the phone carriers to adopt a technology framework called SHAKEN/STIR to help solve the problem.

IWD: biometrics, machine learning, privacy and being a woman in tech – Naked Security Podcast
2020-03-08 12:33

To celebrate International Women's Day we invite you to this all-female splinter episode. We discuss privacy, biometrics, machine learning, social media, getting into cybersecurity and, of course, what it's like to be a woman in tech.

Coronavirus adds uncertainty and cost to tech company supply chains
2020-03-05 17:04

Buchman said tech supply chains are particularly vulnerable to air cargo changes and because many airlines have canceled flights around the world, this will create a down-chain gap that will become more apparent as manufacturing speeds up. The supply chain management company Anvyl has employees in China and said that his entire team has been quarantined twice.

Tech support scammers hacked back by vigilante
2020-03-04 11:08

A UK cybercrime vigilante was so incensed by tech support scammers he reverse-hacked the call centre in India to reveal CCTV footage of perpetrators as they ripped off their victims in real-life calls. During 2019, Browning said he was able to identify dozens of call centres in India where many of tech support scams targeting English speakers originate.

Facebook cancels F8: How the coronavirus is disrupting tech conferences worldwide
2020-02-27 19:00

As a result, thousands of events around the world are being canceled, postponed or turned into online-only events in the wake of the coronavirus and the looming threat of COVID-19. Shopify Unite 2020 developers conference was set for May 6-8 in Toronto and now the in-person portion is canceled and it will be an online-only event.

RSA: What it's like to attend the first tech conference after the coronavirus epidemic
2020-02-26 20:56

San Francisco is the site of the RSA 2020 conference, which took place despite cancellations from IBM, Verizon and AT&T. As San Francisco declared a state of emergency and the federal government warned Americans that novel coronavirus will spread within the US, RSA 2020 still soldiered on at the Moscone Center. On the first day of the security event, organizers sent a message through the conference app, encouraging attendees to knock elbows instead of shake hands.