Access management specialist BeyondTrust, headquartered in Carlsbad, California, has acquired Blackbird Group to bolster its product portfolio.
Mixed bag of attitudes and success with encryption
Almost half of businesses worldwide have started using encryption technology to protect critical data, and encryption is now the fifth most used protection technique claims a new report.
The cloud is loved, but not trusted
‘Do as I say, not as I do’ seems to be the attitude toward the cloud held by security professionals – it’s good enough for company data, but not our own data.
Companies are losing control of their data to the mobile revolution
Users are sharing information on social networks and using public cloud services to move data from corporate to personal devices in ways that by-pass company security policies and systems, and expose company data.
1.6 million records hacked and dumped by GhostShell
Hacking group Team GhostShell launches a new logo, drops 1.6 million hacked records in the name of ProjectWhiteFox (NASA, European Space Agency, Bigelow Aerospace and more), and signs off until the new year.
Shamoon was an external attack on Saudi oil production
In its first comment on the apparent purpose behind the August Shamoon attack on Aramco, Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it was an external attack not just against Aramco, but against the Saudi economy.
GPU cluster can crack any NTLM 8-character hashed password in 5.5 hours
A cluster of 25 AMD Radeon GPUs using OpenVCL and the Hashcat password recovery software is claimed to make 348 billion guesses per second against NTLM hashed passwords, and 63 billion against SHA1 hashed passwords according to a presentation at last w…
Cyber-attacks that kill, IPv6, and vulnerability markets on tap for 2013
As rough of a year as 2012 was for cybersecurity, in 2013 we will see higher stakes than ever before, researchers say. WatchGuard’s security research analysts are predicting upticks in emerging cyber threats – including those that can cause loss of hum…
Goodbye, 123456: Blackberry bans weak passwords
Blackberry has always had a reputation for taking particular care when it comes to security. Its enterprise-server-based deployment configuration was one of the reasons the Blackberry soared to such a high penetration rate in North America, pre-iPhone….
New and improved SHA1 cracking method for passwords published
SHA1 is probably the most widely used password cryptographic hash function; but perhaps it shouldn’t be. The first attack faster than brute force against SHA1 was discovered in 2005, and just over two months ago NIST declared, “Federal agencies should …