RSA 2013: Interview with security evangelist Stephen Cobb
Infosecurity Editor, Eleanor Dallaway, spent a fascinating 45 minutes picking the brain of ESET security evangelist, Stephen Cobb at RSA in San Francisco.
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RSA 2013: Compliance Equals False Sense of Security, Says Vormetric
Compliance is responsible for a false sense of security, Alan Kessler, President & CEO, Vormetric, told Infosecurity at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, February 26 2013.
RSA 2013: Aadhaar, the Indian Electronic Identity Scheme, will change lives, says RSA keynote presenter
During the keynote sessions at the RSA conference in San Francisco today, Srikanth Nadhamuni, Head of Technology at UID Authority of India and CEO at Khosla Labs, presented Aadhaar, the identity scheme in India.
Technology moves to make cloud synchronization / storage secure
One of the most worrying security concerns to come out of the growth of cloud computing and BYOD has been the extensive adoption of third-party file synchronization services, typified by Dropbox and Box, but also including other cloud services such as …
Big data analytics for anomaly detection in security
Big data analytics first evolved for use in marketing: by understanding the relationships between customers and actions, better marketing can be developed. Now the practice is being applied to security: by understanding the relationship between network…
NBC hack serves Citadel malware to visitors
NBC has become the latest high-profile target for a cyber-attack, with its website, NBC.com, becoming compromised by the Citadel financial malware kit long enough to start serving malware to visitors before being corrected.
Latest (ISC)2 Workforce Study Shows Lack of Skilled Infosec Professionals and Developers
The problem is that not enough skilled people actually get into the profession; and all too often security is deemed to be separate from software development. These are the key findings of the sixth and latest study among the existing global security w…
A hacker’s dream: two-thirds of SharePoint users have no security policy
Even though Microsoft SharePoint is widely deployed throughout enterprises and SMBs as a collaboration platform, a shocking two-thirds of SharePoint-using companies in a recent survey have admitted to having ‘no active security policy’ in place for the…
New e-shop hawks stolen PayPal accounts
Hacked PayPal credentials are up for sale in the cybercriminal underworld, arranged in a fast and convenient “e-shop” format.
The car of the future will be recording everything you do
A very public row between the New York Times motor correspondent John Broder and Tesla Motors is entertaining motor enthusiasts and worrying privacy advocates. The NYT delivered a negative review, but Tesla had logged every part of the test drive.