Security
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Tired of Forgetting Passwords – We Might Have the Answer for You
Sick of forgetting passwords? Do you try entering yours multiple times before hitting that ‘forgot password’ link in disgust? Well, researchers from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University may have found a simple but effective solution, using an icon-based password system that plays on a human’s natural ability to tell stories. Developed by Dr Hai-Ning Liang, Dr Charles Fleming and
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SingHealth Cyberattack – Wake-Up call for Business
Singapore’s recent SingHealth cyberattack, affecting 1.5 million patients in Singapore, demonstrate why today’s enterprises must be prepared for similar attacks to occur in their organizations. They must also be aware that their current operations may well be impacted as a result of this breach. With the growing proliferation in the number and vastly different endpoints
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Threat Hunting and Digital Investigation at SANS Denver 2018
SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training, today announced the keynote address for SANS Denver 2018 (#SANSDenver) taking place October 15-20 in Colorado. Forensic expert Heather Mahalik (@HeatherMahalik) will offer valuable insight into digital investigations during her keynote discussion Convergence Forensics: Leveraging Multiple Skills to Analyze Evidence. According to Mahalik, “Most people are trained in
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – Even More Fun with IoT Cyber(in)security!
Greetings, and welcome. This week, yet another new survey highlighting the lack of cybersecurity in business IoT deployments, and yet another IoT device vulnerability – 20, actually. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and IIoT, check out “DortchOnIT’s Industrial Internet
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Consumers Concerned Internet Service Providers Monitor, Share and Sell Personal Data
Internet access is now seen by many to be a human right, a necessity rather than a luxury. Our Internet Service Providers (ISP) are one of the things we love to complain about – the cost, the speed, the reliability are all things that concern us. Another concern that is becoming more widespread is privacy
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Free Data Science in Cybersecurity Symposium from Carnegie Mellon
The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute CERT Division today announced the 2nd annual CERT Data Science in Cybersecurity Symposium, a free one-day symposium to be held in Arlington, Va., on August 29. Registration is now open. Modern computer networks generate incredible amounts of data, but making sense of this data is simultaneously a critically
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – IoT Cybersecurity? What IoT Cybersecurity?
Greetings, and welcome. This week, a decade-old security flaw threatens nearly a half-billion IoT devices, while hackers use other long-known vulnerabilities to enslave thousands of IoT and other connected devices. What are we doing about IoT cybersecurity? As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more
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Cybersecurity – We Still Have a Long Way to Go!
It seems that we still have a long way to go in educating people about the complexity of the cybersecurity space. Women continue to be underrepresented in the field of cybersecurity and, most concernedly, only just over one third of organizations believe they are ready for a cyber attack. University of Phoenix today announced findings
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