Security: Page 52
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Tech giants side with Google in fight over foreign emails
Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Cisco filed a brief in support of Google to try and prevent law enforcement from retrieving customer data located outside the U.S.
By Justine Brown • March 16, 2017 -
33.7M records leaked from US commercial database
Can PII be protected or controlled anymore? Business services company Dun & Bradstreet confirmed it owned the leaked database, which it acquired from NetProspex in 2015.
By Justine Brown • March 16, 2017 -
Grand jury indicts 4 hackers for 2014 Yahoo breach
The defendants include two Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers who allegedly committed computer hacking, economic espionage and criminal offense.
By Naomi Eide • March 15, 2017 -
Why companies should start using HTTPS
Major websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia now offer HTTPS by default, which works to ensure the security of content online.
By Justine Brown • March 15, 2017 -
AWS pushes Snowball Edge to the limit — by testing its resilience using underwater explosives
AWS wants customers and potential customers to know it’s ready for anything.
By Justine Brown , Naomi Eide • March 14, 2017 -
Target promotes security VP after CISO leaves to join Booz Allen
Target promoted Rich Agostino to replace Brad Maiorino as CISO.
By Justine Brown • March 10, 2017 -
Deep Dive
How 5 women in cybersecurity are approaching the industry gender gap
Though the outlook of gender diversity in cybersecurity seems grim, female leaders in the sector are working from within the industry to create a more diverse and inclusive work environment in both cyber and STEM.
By Naomi Eide • March 8, 2017 -
How a spamming organization collected, and exposed, data on 1.37B email accounts
The data was collected by a group disguising itself as a legitimate marketing firm offering free services, which failed to properly configure its backups, exposing the information.
By Justine Brown • March 7, 2017 -
Why Consumer Reports is taking on device security, privacy
The company hopes to eventually get device manufactures to meet security standards when building and designing connected devices, software and mobile apps.
By Justine Brown • March 7, 2017 -
Deep Dive
The mobile device conundrum: Employee flexibility and security at odds
Enterprise data on mobile devices can be dangerous. But as workers insist on flexible options, the mobile device management market is forced to evolve.
By Justine Brown • March 7, 2017 -
HackerOne sets hackers on open source projects to improve internet security
The company says it wants to improve the safety of open source projects that underlie so many internet products and services today.
By Justine Brown • March 6, 2017 -
Yahoo fallout: General counsel resigns, CEO won't see bonus
General Counsel Ronald Bell resigned after an SEC report found Yahoo’s legal team had enough information in 2014 to warrant further investigation.
By Justine Brown • March 3, 2017 -
Soon, users will actually be able to schedule their Windows 10 updates
Microsoft personnel promise new features in the Windows 10 Creators Update will put users in better control of their privacy and security.
By Justine Brown • March 2, 2017 -
How one Boeing employee exposed the personal data of 36K coworkers
A simple email request for help formatting an Excel spreadsheet could have been a security disaster.
By Justine Brown • March 2, 2017 -
Microsoft, Intel lead collaboration to adapt blockchain for business
The new alliance will work to make Ethereum blockchain better suited to enterprise applications.
By Justine Brown • March 1, 2017 -
A test case for other states, NY cybersecurity regulations take effect
On Wednesday, New York became the first state to require companies to implement cybersecurity programs to protect customers.
By Justine Brown • March 1, 2017 -
Google turns email encryption effort over to GitHub
As part of a community-driven open source end-to-end encryption research effort, Google is hoping developers can help make E2E more user-friendly
By Justine Brown • Feb. 28, 2017 -
Microsoft adds option to prevent Windows 10 installation of 'bloatware'
Windows 10 users will soon be able to restrict the installation of software from any source other than the Windows Store.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 28, 2017 -
Cloudflare admits bug leaked customer data for months
About one in every 3.3 million HTTP requests to Cloudflare sites may have exposed data with the "Cloudbleed" leak.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 27, 2017 -
Deep Dive
Why third-party risk is worth the reward
With the transition to service providers and cloud offerings, security concerns began to fall outside the purview of the enterprise and instead to workloads and relationship processes.
By Naomi Eide • Feb. 27, 2017 -
Cybercriminals offer 'customer support' to help victims pay ransomware
Transcripts of "customer support" chat reveal how creative criminals can be in order to get paid.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 24, 2017 -
Why Adobe is rolling out digital signatures for any device
Instead of waiting until they return to the office to print and sign a document, users can now review, sign and send documents securely via any mobile device.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 23, 2017 -
Elite federal tech team in hot water over shadow IT
The General Services Administration’s internal watchdog found 18F, an organization established by the Obama administration, created its own security assessment and authorization process.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 23, 2017 -
Deep Dive
Who really owns security in the enterprise?
As an increase in large-scale breaches and embarrassing cybersecurity shortcomings have illustrated security's bottom-line impact, different parties have become invested, from the general council to the CEO.
By Naomi Eide • Feb. 23, 2017 -
Netflix 'Stethoscope' finds the beat of employees' security habits
The streaming giant believes a user-focused approach to improving security can enable better results, so now it's open-sourcing its internal tool.
By Justine Brown • Feb. 22, 2017
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