As he has watched news break seemingly every day in recent weeks about high-profile cyberattacks, David Wiener has come to the conclusion that he is in a particularly unique position. There was the theft of Democratic National Committee emails that … Read More
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Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Control System Systems
Source: The Cipher Brief The Cipher Brief’s Luke Penn-Hall spoke to Tom Parker, Chief Technology Officer for FusionX, at the annual Black Hat cybersecurity conference that took place in early August. Parker shared his view of the threat landscape to … Read More
Holding Your Devices Hostage
Source: The Cipher Brief The Cipher Brief’s Luke Penn-Hall sat down with Steve Grobman, Intel Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for Intel Security, at the annual Black Hat cybersecurity conference, which took place in early August. Steve discussed how he … Read More
The Blurring Line Between Cyber and Physical Threats
Source: The Cipher Brief Every day, the line between cyber-threats and physical threats grows thinner – blurring the crucial distinction between attacks on networks and attacks on materials objects. 225,000 Ukrainians learned this in January of 2016 when they lost … Read More
Has your Company Suffered a Data Breach? Expect to Lose $6.03 Million on Average
Aird & Berlis LLP Canada August 10 2016 There are 6.03 million reasons for organizations to protect their databases from cyber-attacks. The 2016 Cost of Data Breach Study (the “Study”), produced by IBM and the Ponemon Institute, serves as a … Read More
Hackers claim to auction NSA source code
Hackers calling themselves Shadow Brokers are auctioning off what they claim is the source code to a vaunted, likely state-sponsored hacking group many believe is affiliated with the National Security Agency. There is no definitive proof the auction is genuine, but … Read More
Thousands of Patient Files Accessible Online After Data Breach
Thousands of North and South Carolina patients will be checking their credit report for the next year free of charge after learning their personal information appeared online. A spokeswoman for Bon Secours Healthcare Systen says a vendor hired by the … Read More
Oops: Microsoft leaks its Golden Key, unlocking Windows Secure Boot and exposing the danger of backdoors
Microsoft has demonstrated why the FBI’s desire for “Golden Key” backdoors allowing “good guys” to bypass security is such a bad idea: it inadvertently released its own keys to Windows tablets, phones, HoloLens and other devices using UEFI Secure Boot. … Read More
Researchers Made the First Quantum Enigma Machine
In 1949, the father of information theory Claude Shannon wrote a paper proving that it was possible to create a perfectly secure message, one where the code could never be cracked—even with all the time and computing power in the … Read More
CIA official: Stop treating IT as a service
One of the legacies of early information technology adoption in the corporate world and public sector, alike, is the tendency to view IT shops as part of the administrative cadre — placing it more in line with human resources and billing-and-receiving … Read More