The Flash Keyboard app has been downloaded more than 50 million times — but is capable of some extremely dangerous behaviors.”It looked like it was a convenient keyboard that had some nice features,” said Bill Anderson, chief product officer at mob…
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Enterprise use of encryption saw the largest increase over the past year in over a decade, according to a report released today by the Ponemon Institute.But encryption technology spending as percent of total IT security budgets has gone down, said J…
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Companies that use remote device management software to oversee employee devices used for business have the ability to collect a lot more information than employees may be comfortable with, according to a report released today.”The intent of these M…
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Security managers working with industrial control systems are increasingly concerned about security, and worried about insufficient information sharing in the industry, according to a new survey.This year, 67 percent of respondents said that the thr…
With great power comes great responsibility — and also a great big target painted on your head. At least, that’s the case lately with corporate boards of directors and cybercriminals launching spearphishing attacks.”Since the beginning of the year …
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If CISOs don’t do a good job of communicating, 59 percent of board members said that the security executives stand to lose their jobs, according to a new survey released today.”If they’re not up to par in the minds of the board, there will be action…
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A majority of companies don’t have the technology in place to keep employees from sharing confidential documents, according to a study released today.
In particular, only 36 percent of over 600 IT practitioners at large companies said that their co…
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Globally, 47 percent of consumers would switch their mobile phone carrier in the event of a security breach, up 7 percent from last year, but only 29 percent of Americans would do the same, according to a new Nokia survey of more than 20,000 custome…
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Shaming carriers and smartphone manufacturers into applying patches faster is a step forward, but a lot more needs to be done to improve security of the Android platform, security experts say.
Last month, Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, is consi…
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Surescripts is not a data science company. But as the largest health information network in the country, they’ve gotten good at handling Big Data.
And their Big Data is pretty big — the system tracks 270 million patients covering 71 percent of the…
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As of the end of March, 93 percent of all phishing emails contained encryption ransomware, according to a report released today by PhishMe.
That was up from 56 percent in December, and less than 10 percent every other month of last year.
And the nu…
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When it comes to issuing credentials to employees, government agencies benefit from an additional authentication step that is not well appreciated: At some point in the hiring process, a trusted human resources manager or supervisor physically meets with new hires and verifies their identification documents. Apostille services near me work with both personal and corporate
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In the federal government, Common Access Cards and personal identity verification cards for employees and contractors incorporate biometrics and give agencies a better foundation for security and ID management than many private-sector organizations enjoy. But that wasn’t always the case. A few years ago, Kayvan Alikhani, senior director of technology at RSA Security, would have
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A recent test of pre-installed updater software on 10 laptops showed that every single one had security problems.”We went and bought about 10 laptops,” said Darren Kemp, security researcher at Duo Security. “And every single vendor had their own pie…
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In theory, nobody should be paying any money to the ransomware extortionists. Doesn’t everyone have backups these days? Even consumer has access to a wide variety of free or low-cost backup services.But the headlines are full of reports about instit…
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