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2017-05-22 10:18:11 | With a year to GDPR coming into force, what do businesses need to do? (lien direct) | With 25th May 2017 marking a year until General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, Mark Thompson, global privacy advisory lead at KPMG, highlights that business need to get their act together to make sure they don't fall foul of the new legal framework. He said: “On 25 May 2018, GDPR will affect organisations ... | Guideline | ★★★★ | |
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2017-05-19 10:05:38 | Proposed PATCH Act forces US snoops to quit hoarding code exploits (lien direct) | Two US senators have proposed a law limiting American intelligence agencies’ secret stockpiles of vulnerabilities found in products. The Protecting our Ability To Counter Hacking (PATCH) Act [PDF] would set up a board chaired by an Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official to assess security flaws spies have found in code and hardware, and decide if manufacturers ... | |||
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2017-05-19 10:04:09 | Banking association calls for end of \'screen-scraping\' (lien direct) | The European Banking Federation (EBF) has asked the EU Commission to support a ban on “screen scraping”. Screen-scraping services, seen as a first-generation direct access technology, allow third parties to access bank accounts on a client's behalf using the client’s access credentials. The Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2) introduces a general security upgrade for ... | |||
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2017-05-19 10:02:49 | DDoS activity falls 30 per cent but Mirai-style attacks are on the rise (lien direct) | AKAMAI HAS WARNED that, while the volume of DDoS attacks has so far declined in 2017, a proliferation of Mirai-style hack on IoT devices means that bigger attacks could be just around the corner. The content distribution company, which accounts for as much as 30 per cent of all online traffic, made the claims in its latest State of the Internet (PDF) ... | |||
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2017-05-19 10:01:04 | London City Airport\'s new digital air traffic control tower \'safe from cyber attack\' (lien direct) | London City Airport is to become the first UK airport to install a digital air traffic control tower. Air traffic controllers who have until now looked out from the tower to direct planes for take off and landing will be moved to a virtual control tower more than 80 miles away. The airport will decommission ... | |||
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2017-05-19 09:57:24 | ValueLicensing reduces the cost of the war on cybercrime (lien direct) | Worried about the WannaCry virus? Don’t let the cost of upgrading your online security reduce you to tears, says ValueLicensing Cyberattacks and data breaches are two of the greatest concerns for modern businesses – but making sure your business has access to greater security needn’t cost the earth, according to one expert. The WannaCry ransomware ... | Wannacry | ||
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2017-05-19 09:53:52 | Samsung Pay Now Available to UK Visa Cardholders (lien direct) | With today's launch of Samsung Pay, UK Visa account holders can now use their compatible Samsung smartphones for purchases worldwide. Visa's tokenisation service enables cardholders to add their Visa credit and debit cards quickly and easily to the Samsung Pay wallet and pay in a secure and convenient way at contactless point-of-sale terminals. Samsung Pay ... | |||
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2017-05-19 09:50:49 | Global survey reveals that most people are ill equipped to deal with ransomware (lien direct) | Friday's ransomware attack, which affected 200,000 computer systems in 150 countries and crippled hospitals across the United Kingdom, is a frightening reminder of how much damage can be done by this type of malicious cyberattack. A new global survey of Internet users in 23 countries and Hong Kong (China) reveals that most people are ill ... | |||
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2017-05-18 10:20:14 | HP Inc wireless mouse can be spoofed (lien direct) | If you’re using an HP Inc wireless keyboard/mouse combo and the cursor starts behaving badly, someone might be pranking you. That’s because the wireless mouse in the ERK-321A bundle is unencrypted: anyone can sniff its signals, learn its protocol and commands, and inject their own signal in a spoofing attack. German pentesters Syss reported the bug to ... | |||
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2017-05-18 10:18:40 | Gotcha, Tatcha! Thieves hide in servers to hoover up victims\' bank card numbers mid-order (lien direct) | Cosmetics peddler Tatcha is warning customers after hackers were able to compromise its website and harvest payment card details as orders poured in. The US branch of the Japanese biz has been sending notices this month to customers whose card details were apparently stolen on January 8 of this year and discovered in April. “During the early ... | |||
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2017-05-18 10:17:08 | Romania foreign ministry target of “surgical†cyberattack (lien direct) | Ukrainian accusations that Moscow was behind cyber attacks on President Petro Poroshenko’s official website are baseless, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. “The lack of any details confirms the groundlessness of the accusations,” Peskov told reporters during a regular conference call. Ukraine accused Russia on Tuesday of carrying out an organised cyber attack on ... | |||
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2017-05-18 10:14:38 | Researchers discover another ongoing cyberattack using NSA hacking tools (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have identified a second ongoing global cyberattack that has quietly hijacked hundreds of thousands of computers around the world, including many in the United States, for a massive cryptocurrency mining operation.While investigating the WannaCry ransomware attacks, researchers at the cybersecurity firm Proofpoint stumbled upon another “less noisy†form of malware called Adylkuzz that, ... | Wannacry | ||
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2017-05-18 10:12:25 | British MPs targeted by hackers in co-ordinated attack (lien direct) | British MPs were targeted in a co-ordinated hacking attempt this year, according to intelligence officials, an attack that has raised concern over foreign meddling in the forthcoming election.The attack was politically motivated, a senior security official told the Financial Times, and was likely to have been the work of a state. Officials said they could ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-05-18 10:09:52 | Ransomware Attack a Wake-Up Call (lien direct) | The WannaCry ransomware attack that has impacted an estimated 300,000 users in 150 countries is a wake-up call for both government and business, said the global body for ICT professionals. Mike Hinchey, President of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing), today warned that WannaCry was only the latest in a series of online attacks that ... | Wannacry | ★★★★ | |
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2017-05-18 10:05:36 | Password inertia leaving UK consumers at risk of fraud, research reveals (lien direct) | Less than half (49%) of consumers regularly change their passwords as a way to prevent fraud, according to research from Callcredit Information Group. Yet, the majority (66%) perceive the risk of identity theft and online fraud as one of their biggest concerns around sharing personal information online. The research*, commissioned by Callcredit Information Group as ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-05-18 10:04:15 | SailPoint report benchmarks enterprises\' reactions to the surge of breaches, reveals 3 in 5 companies expect to be breached in 2017 (lien direct) | SailPoint, the leader in enterprise identity management, today announced the results of its 9th annual Market Pulse Survey which explores how enterprises are changing their approach to security, amid an evolving threat landscape that sees almost daily announcements of data breaches, including some of the largest ever recorded. This years' Market Pulse Survey found that ... | Guideline | ★★ | |
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2017-05-16 10:49:20 | Cyber attack: Latest evidence indicates \'phishing\' emails not to blame for global hack (lien direct) | Latest evidence suggests “phishing” emails are unlikely to have caused the global cyber attack that wreaked havoc at dozens of NHS trusts and hit hundreds of thousands of computers in 150 countries. Security experts have disputed claims that the virus was spread through suspicious emails, saying that computers were vulnerable to the bug regardless of how vigilant users ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-05-16 10:44:12 | All Orthopaedic Outpatient Clinics Cancelled by Northumbria NHS (lien direct) | Planned orthopaedic outpatient clinics on all sites will not take place today and will be rescheduled as soon as possible, Northumbria NHS has said. It follows the healthcare services’ ongoing recovery from the global cyber attack which took place on Friday 12th May. Northumbria NHS has said it continues to experience disruption to some planned ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-05-16 10:42:30 | DocuSign Forged – Crooks Crack Email System And Send Nasties (lien direct) | Electronic signatures outfit DocuSign has warned world+dog that one of its email systems was cracked by phisherpholk. The company has of late reported an extensive phishing campaign that sees messages with the subject line “Completed *company name* – Accounting Invoice *number* Document Ready for Signature†land in plenty of inboxes. As is the way with ... | |||
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2017-05-16 10:39:48 | WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack \'may have N Korea link\' (lien direct) | You may not have heard of the Lazarus Group, but you may be aware of its work. The devastating hack on Sony Pictures in 2014, and another on a Bangladeshi bank in 2016, have both been attributed to the highly sophisticated group. It is widely believed that the Lazarus Group worked out of China, but on behalf ... | Medical | Wannacry APT 38 | |
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2017-05-16 10:37:18 | Cloud Encryption: Bring Your Own Key Is No Longer Enough (lien direct) | 'Trust' can be both a terrific enabler and a severe inhibitor in cloud services adoption. Keen to benefit from the cloud's promise of flexible and scalable on-demand computing, businesses everywhere continue to migrate increasing volumes of critical data off-site and into the hands of third party cloud service providers. Each time this happens, however, they ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-05-16 10:33:45 | SolarWinds MSP Security Survey Highlights Overconfidence, Lack of Preparedness by IT Execs to Fight Ransomware and Other Cyber Attacks (lien direct) | SolarWinds MSP, a global leader in delivering comprehensive, scalable IT service management solutions to IT solution providers and MSPs, today published survey findings outlining the preparedness of UK and U.S. businesses in dealing with cybersecurity breaches. The report reveals that businesses are gravely optimistic about their ability to deter and cope with malicious attacks, despite ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-05-16 10:31:32 | NHS cyber-attack patch highlights complexity of keeping enterprise IT up to date (lien direct) | A patch which may have prevented the NHS ransomware attack was made available to the organisation a month ago, it has emerged.[1] The widespread use of unsupported Windows XP operating systems is thought to have provided an entry-point for hackers to infect computers with ransomware software, effectively paralysing large parts of the NHS. The attack ... | |||
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2017-05-15 12:34:20 | Unfragmenting Security with Threat Intelligence (lien direct) | Written by Anthony Perridge, Regional Director, ThreatQuotient It has often been said that complexity is the enemy of security. It is a simple statement but, nonetheless, one that holds true time and time again. The more complex your infrastructure, the more likely it is to have seams with exposed vulnerabilities. This is exactly what hackers ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-05-15 12:31:14 | EMEA is top source of phishing attacks worldwide (lien direct) | Over half (53 per cent) of the world's phishing attacks originated in EMEA, according to the 2017 Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR) published by NTT Security, the specialised security company of NTT Group. Analysing global threat trends (1 Oct 2015–31 Sept 2016), the report also shows that of all phishing attacks worldwide, 38 per cent ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-05-15 12:28:34 | Combat the DDoS of Things with These 5 Simple Tactics (lien direct) | By Duncan Hughes, Systems Engineering Director, EMEA, A10 Networks Threat actors have weaponised the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. They're using unsecured IoT devices and creating botnets to launch catastrophic distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. This has given rise to the DDoS of Things (DoT). Fueled by headline-making malware like Mirai and Leet, these DDoS ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-05-15 12:25:23 | Insider and Third-Party Access Rank as Top Cyber Threats for Global Organisations (lien direct) | Bomgar, a leader in secure access solutions, today announced the results of its 2017 Secure Access Threat Report, which finds that insider and third-party access are growing security threats facing organizations and enterprise IT systems. The global survey explores the visibility, control, and management that IT organizations in the U.S. and Europe have over employees, ... | Guideline | ★★ | |
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2017-05-15 12:18:54 | Baijiu malware preys on heightened interest in North Korea (lien direct) | Security researchers have detected a new strain of malware dubbed Baijiu that targets people curious about what happens within North Korea. According to security firm Cylance, the new advanced threat “abuses global concern about the dire humanitarian situation in North Korea” by luring victims with a malicious file that offers insight into the devastating flood that the ... | |||
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2017-05-15 12:17:24 | Whitehall suffers a data breach every HOUR: Damning report reveals personal information is regularly being breached (lien direct) | Personal information held by Government departments is being breached at least once an hour, a little-noticed study recently revealed. The damning report – by the Commons' Public Accounts Committee (PAC) – found insufficient measures were in place to stop sensitive data being lost, wrongly shared or hacked, potentially leading to 'significant harm'. There were an ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-05-15 12:13:39 | Isis have been hacked by Anonymous again with lots of gay porn (lien direct) | A hacker who has previously hacked Isis Twitter accounts with gay porn appears to have done it again. WachulaGhost, a hacker who is associated with Anonymous, first targeted the terror group in the wake of the Orlando attack at the Pulse nightclub after Omar Mateen shot 49 people dead. He said that hacking Isis is actually easier ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-05-15 12:10:31 | Cyber attack: Fears of surge in ransomware infections as people return to work on Monday (lien direct) | Fears are growing that Monday could see a surge in the number of computers taken over by the devastating WannaCry ransomware hack. As people return to work and connect laptops to their office system, this could potentially spark a new wave of infections. About 200,000 victims in 150 countries or more have so far been ... | Wannacry | ★★★ | |
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2017-05-12 10:32:45 | One Identity Customer Nestlé Wins Prestigious 2017 KuppingerCole European Identity and Cloud Award (lien direct) | One Identity, a proven leader in helping organizations get identity and access management (IAM) right, today announced its long-standing customer, Nestlé, the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company has been recognized by industry-leading analyst firm KuppingerCole as a winner in the “Best Identity and Access Management†category at this year's European Identity and Cloud ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-05-12 10:31:00 | FireMon Announces Industry\'s First Intelligent Cloud Security Management Solution (lien direct) | FireMon today announced that its market leading Intelligent Security Management, which helps organizations worldwide centrally manage their on-premises firewalls, is available for cloud and native cloud firewalls. From traditional, on-premises or cloud firewalls such as Juniper Networks®, Palo Alto Networks® or Cisco®, to native cloud security controls like Amazon Web Services, regardless of what an ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-05-12 10:23:22 | People at Risk of Data Heartache, and They Have Themselves to Blame (lien direct) | People love their digital devices. Yet, they put it at risk with dangerous behaviour that compromises security. New research by Kaspersky Lab reveals a contradiction in the way people treat their data – although they are aware of the threat from cybercriminals, their actions show they're failing to protect their data properly, with around half ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-05-12 10:08:33 | Cookie monster: malware steals cookies and hijacks WordPress sessions (lien direct) | Sucuri researchers recently observed a malware attack that injected obfuscated code into a JavaScript file in order to steal web users’ cookies and hijack their WordPress sessions. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine | ★★ | ||
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2017-05-12 10:07:22 | Learning Platform Edmodo Investigates Reports of Major Breach (lien direct) | Social learning platform Edmodo says it's investigating reports that millions of user account details are up for sale on the darknet. The firm claims to be “the world’s largest primary and secondary social learning communityâ€, connecting learners with teachers and resources. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine | |||
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2017-05-12 10:04:15 | HP pushes out fix for keylogging audio driver in its laptops (lien direct) | Swiss security consultancy Modzero revealed on Thursday that a number of HP laptops contain an audio driver that logs users' keystrokes and stores them in an unencrypted file on the local system. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security | |||
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2017-05-12 10:02:29 | (Déjà vu) Unpatched 0-days in Vanilla Forums let Remote Attackers Hack Websites (lien direct) | A security researcher has publicly disclosed two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Vanilla Forums, an open source software that powers discussion on over 500,000 websites, which could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to fully compromise targeted websites easily. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Hacker News | |||
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2017-05-11 10:03:43 | Cifas Report – Fraud trends from over 325,000 fraud cases recorded in 2016 (lien direct) | Cifas, the UK's leading fraud prevention service, yesterday released a new report detailing the fraud trends from over 325,000 fraud cases recorded in 2016. The data, from 387 organisations, including many major UK brands, is one of the most comprehensive pictures of fraud and fraudulent attempts made in the UK. The research discovered fraudsters’ takeovers of customer ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-05-11 09:59:32 | Data detox: Kaspersky Lab helps businesses achieve good data health, in advance of GDPR deadline (lien direct) | With just over a year to go until businesses within the EU must become compliant with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Kaspersky Lab has today launched an online hub to help them complete their journey to good data health and long-term business prosperity. Featuring an assessment tool to help gauge GDPR readiness, and ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-05-11 09:58:23 | Nearly two-thirds of UK consumers say experiencing a data leak/breach would likely make them leave a brand (lien direct) | Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a leader in cloud and big data integration software, announced the results of an international consumer and IT business survey that uncovers a startling gap between customer expectations, and the reality of what organizations are currently providing. The study, which was conducted by Researchscape, highlights the importance of high-quality data security to any business engaging with UK ... | Guideline | ★★ | |
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2017-05-11 09:55:38 | Unpatched “Denial of Service†Vulnerability within Microsoft Windows – A Different Perspective (lien direct) | By Kasper Lindgaard, Director of Research and Security, Secunia Research at Flexera Software Recently, Secunia Research discovered a “Denial of Service†(DoS) vulnerability within Microsoft Windows. It is triggered through a stack exhaustion during the Type 1 font processing within the Adobe Type Manager Font Driver library (AMTFD.dll), which results in a crash of the ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-05-11 09:50:25 | DDoS attack knocks out major French news sites including Le Monde and Le Figaro (lien direct) | A DDos attack on Portland-based company Cedexis, which helps in speed delivery of content, knocked out several major French news websites including Le Monde and Le Figaro. A DDoS attack makes online services unavailable by overwhelming the target site with unexpected traffic from multiple sources. “At approximately 2 pm GMT, the Cedexis infrastructure came under ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-05-11 09:49:33 | New Mac malware propagates through popular DVD ripping software (lien direct) | Some Mac users may have fallen victim to a new Mac malware called Proton. Over the weekend, the malware infected unsuspecting users by hitching a ride on a trusted server that hosted downloads for HandBrake, a popular DVD ripper and media encoding program. The malware provides a backdoor for malicious activity, such as stealing stored files. ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-05-11 09:48:45 | Fake Origin Energy bills loaded with malware target Aussies (lien direct) | A round of malware has hit the inboxes of Australians on Wednesday morning posing as Origin Energy bills. The emails, which appear to be genuine bills from the electricity and gas utility, contain a direct link to a malware payload in the form of a JavaScript dropper and will install malicious files like keyloggers. The ... | |||
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2017-05-11 09:47:57 | 67% of Security Teams Say Insiders Top Data Security Threat (lien direct) | Healthcare organizations must ensure that they carefully monitor who is able to access sensitive information, as potential data security threats can occur from either insiders or third-parties. While working with trusted vendors or business associates is not new for the healthcare industry, failing to manage, control, and monitor sensitive data access could lead to inappropriate ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-05-11 09:47:03 | Thousands of Patient Records Leaked in New York Hospital Data Breach (lien direct) | Medical records of at least 7,000 people compromised in a data breach involving Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center in New York disclosed patients’ mental health and medical diagnoses, HIV statuses and sexual assault and domestic violence reports, according to records reviewed by NBC News. Other information in the compromised records, which online security experts said spanned ... | |||
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2017-05-10 09:57:09 | If You Installed HandBrake On Your Mac, Your Computer Might Be Hosed (lien direct) | Hackers compromised a download server for a popular media-encoding software named HandBrake and used it to push stealthy malware that stole victims’ password keychains, password vaults, and possibly the master credentials that decrypted them, security researchers said Monday. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Arstechnica | |||
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2017-05-10 09:55:44 | (Déjà vu) Cognitive Security Is The Future, says Martin Kuppinger (lien direct) | Modern computing capabilities combined with cognitive technology has huge potential for tackling unknown attack patterns and addressing the security skills shortage, says Martin Kuppinger View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Computer Weekly | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-05-10 09:54:32 | Cisco Patches Leaked 0-day in 300+ Of Its Switches (lien direct) | Cisco has plugged a critical security hole in over 300 of its switches, and is urging users to apply the patches as soon as possible because an exploit for it has been available for a month now. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security | ★★★★★ |
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