Insider Threat Seriously Undermining Healthcare Cybersecurity
Two separate reports suggest insiders - of the malicious and careless variety - pose more of a problem in healthcare than any other sector....
More Security Vendors Putting ‘Skin in the Game’
Secure messaging and collaboration provider Wickr now publicly shares security testing details of its software....
6 Questions to Ask Your Cloud Provider Right Now
Experts share the security-focused issues all businesses should explore when researching and using cloud services....
CERT.org Goes Away, Panic Ensues
Turns out the Carnegie Mellon CERT just moved to a newly revamped CMU Software Engineering Institute website....
New 4G LTE Network Attacks Let Hackers Spy, Track, Spoof and Spam
Security researchers have discovered a set of severe vulnerabilities in 4G LTE protocol that could be exploited to spy on user phone calls and text messages, send fake emergency alerts, spoof location of the de...
Facebook Upgrades Link Security with HSTS Preloading
Facebook and Instagram links will automatically update from HTTP to HTTPS for eligible websites, increasing both speed and security, the social media giant said....
Intimate Partner Threat
Princeton's Karen Levy has a good article computer security and the intimate partner threat:
When you learn that your privacy has been compromised, the common advice is to prevent additional access -- delete y...
600 Powerful Bitcoin-Mining Computers Worth $2 Million Stolen In Iceland
Around 600 powerful devices specifically designed for mining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been stolen from Icelandic data centers in what has been dubbed the "Big Bitcoin Heist."
To make a profit, s...
Hacking Back & the Digital Wild West
Far from helping organizations defend themselves, hacking back will escalate an already chaotic situation....
Extracting Secrets from Machine Learning Systems
This is fascinating research about how the underlying training data for a machine-learning system can be inadvertently exposed. Basically, if a machine-learning system trains on a dataset that contains secret i...