Tag Archives: Computer network security

Unofficially Fixing Apple’s ‘Gotofail’ Mess And How To Stay Safe

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Many of you by now will have read about the Apple security issues in iOS and Mac OS X. Whilst we all wait patiently for Apple to comment on the issue, or better yet to fix it, users are left exposed...

How To Prevent Becoming The Next Target

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Welcome to another installment in my cybersecurity for business owners series. Black Hat held a good webinar today on securing POS (Point of Sale) Systems.  I published an article on this topic...

SANS Institute Report on Cyberthreat To Healthcare Industry

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In light of last weeks cyber-attack on Forbes (here), the release of new cyberthreat report yesterday specifically for healthcare was both timely – and sobering. Maliciously disrupting the...

SD Elements–A Solution To The Web App Security Conundrum

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The idea of web applications seems timeless, web apps have been around for a couple of decades already and yet we still keep hearing about security vulnerabilities in applications. Indeed the OWASP...

Former NSA Security Architect Pushes Email Encryption For The Masses

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Since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden began divulging information on how vulnerable our personal digital data is – and how much of it security organizations have been helping themselves to – the...

How Secure is Your Health Data?

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By Julie Steele Dr. Andrew Litt, Chief Medical Officer at Dell, made a thoughtful blog post last week about the trade-offs inherent in designing for both the security and accessibility of medical...

Secure Your POS and Avoid a Target-Style Disaster

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An estimated 70 million consumers were affected by a data breach impacting Target’s POS systems over the holidays. For Target, this signals the beginning of a gradual rebuilding of trust between...

Survey Shows Most American Execs Are Out of Touch With IT?

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Many American executives are out of touch with their IT department, putting them at risk for security issues and data loss. When surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, more than 9,300 high-ranking...

7 Israeli Security Companies Capable of Protecting the Sochi Olympics

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The 22nd Winter Olympics are to be held in short time in Sochi, Russia. The news leading up to one of the world’s greatest sporting events hasn’t been good, to put it mildly. From stories about...

The Target Data Breach Is Becoming A Nightmare

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Over the past month, details about the breadth of the Target data breach have continued to emerge.  It’s not a pretty story.  Bad enough when it appeared that through some means, hackers had gotten...