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An Interesting Approach to Cyber Insurance
What if insurers were to offer companies an incentive -- say, a discount -- for better protecting themselves? You know, the way car insurance companies offer lower premiums to customers who take a driver's ed course.
The Danger of Action Bias: Is It Always Better to Act Quickly?
Experts discuss the meaning of action bias and how it presents a threat to IT security leaders, practitioners, and users.Microsoft Signs Malware That Spreads Through Gaming
The driver, called "Netfilter," is a rootkit that talks to Chinese C2 IPs and aims to spoof gamers' geo-locations to cheat the system and play from anywhere, Microsoft said.
Critical CISO Initiatives for the Second Half of 2021
Saryu Nayyar, CEO at Gurucul, goes over what defenses CISOs need now, and how and why to prioritize the options.
In Memoriam: John McAfee
What was it like to work for, and be friends with, the larger-than-life technology entrepreneur back when he helped shape the computer security industry?
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The Role of Encryption in Protecting LGBTQ+ Community Members
The Internet is a vital tool that helps LGBTQ+ community members communicate without fear of persecution -- and strong encryption is a critical part of this equation.Buckland: ministerial offices should be swept for hidden cameras – video
The justice secretary has signalled that ministerial security may have been compromised as he called for regular security sweeps for cameras in ministers’ offices after the Matt Hancock scandal. Hancock resigned as health secretary after CCTV footage from his departmental office showing him kissing his senior aide was leaked to the press
Continue reading...Own an old WD My Book Live? Disconnect it from the internet right now
Active attacks are indiscriminately wiping user devices.Hancock CCTV footage: security may have been breached, minister says
Justice secretary Robert Buckland calls for regular sweeps for hidden cameras in government offices
The justice secretary, Robert Buckland, has signalled that ministerial security may have been compromised as he called for regular security sweeps for cameras in ministers’ offices after the Matt Hancock scandal.
Hancock resigned as health secretary on Saturday following the leak of CCTV images from his departmental office showing him kissing his senior aide Gina Coladangelo.
Continue reading...GitHub bug bounties: payouts surge past $1.5 million mark
GitHub says that 2020 was the “busiest year yet” in vulnerability disclosure.Ministry of Defence employee charged in child pornography case
The charges stem from his participation in the “PedoPub” web forum.John McAfee obituary
Controversial antivirus software pioneer who entered US politics and became a fugitive from justiceAs the inventor of the antivirus software that bears his name, John McAfee, who has died aged 75 after apparently taking his own life in a Spanish prison, turned paranoia into a fortune. He was one of the first successful self-promoting celebrity millionaires whose power and media exposure provide untold influence in the US.
Moving from computer savant to spiritual guru, he then began an extended second act in Belize, where his outsized lifestyle fuelled his own personal paranoia, and led to his becoming the leading suspect in the murder of a beachfront neighbour.
Continue reading...Mercedes-Benz Customer Data Flies Out the Window
For over three years, a vendor was recklessly driving the cloud-stored data of luxury-car-owning customers and wannabe buyers.
New CPU Baseline for Windows 11 Will Ensure Better Security, Microsoft Says
Redmond's latest OS will run only on systems with TPM 2.0 chips.PS3 Players Ban: Latest Victims of Surging Attacks on Gaming Industry
Every Sony PlayStation 3 ID out there was compromised, provoking bans of legit players on the network.
MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet
Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a previously unknown critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device.FIN7 ‘Pen Tester’ Headed to Jail Amid $1B in Payment-Card Losses
One of the Carbanak cybergang's highest-level hackers is destined to serve seven years while making $2.5 million in restitution payments.
Amazon Acquires Secure Messaging Platform Wickr
AWS CISO Stephen Schmidt says the acquisition is strategic amid the proliferation of remote work.Data Privacy Is in 23andMe CSO's DNA
How serious is the company about safeguarding its customers and their genetic information? "We're hiding data even from ourselves," says the biotech and genetic testing company's head of security.
Cisco ASA Bug Now Actively Exploited as PoC Drops
In-the-wild XSS attacks have commenced against the security appliance (CVE-2020-3580), as researchers publish exploit code on Twitter.