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SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Security Pros to Users: Do as We Say, Not as We Do

 February 24, 2016

IT pros -- the gatekeepers of company security policies -- are willing to bend the rules to get things done, according to Absolute Software, based on survey findings it released last week. Forty-five percent of IT pros confessed they knowingly worked around their own security policies, according to the survey. Moreover, 33 percent admitted to hacking their own or another organization's systems. In addition, 46 percent said employees represent the greatest security risk to their organizations...

DHS Ready to Share Intelligence With Private Sector

February 18, 2016

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security this month will start sharing threat information with a small number of hand-picked companies under the newly enacted Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. DHS hopes to collect threat indicators from companies and redistribute them so everyone gets a better ...

New Safe Harbor Pact Offers Temporary Port in Storm

February 9, 2016

Through an eleventh-hour maneuver, the United States and the European Union last week avoided action that could have choked the movement of data between the regions and caused financial harm to U.S. companies. It may be only a temporary respite, however. The problem stems from a European Court of Ju...

FDA Guidelines Target IoT Medical Device Security

January 28, 2016

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week took a step toward addressing the threat the Internet of Things poses to patients and their data by releasing some proposed guidelines for managing cybersecurity in medical devices. "A growing number of medical devices are designed to be networked to f...

GM Bug Program Gets Mixed Notices

January 21, 2016

Two white-hat hackers, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, made headlines last year when they demonstrated how they could hijack the control systems of a moving motor vehicle over the Internet. The move got the attention of the auto industry, and last week General Motors put in place a program to enco...

Privacy as a Service Advocates Promise Better Data Protection

January 14, 2016

There's been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the Sisyphean task of protecting privacy in the Digital Age, but that hasn't stopped innovators from searching for ways to preserve it. One of the latest ideas to emerge in the field is Privacy as a Service. As with many emerging technologies...

Iranian Cyberattack on American Dam Viewed As Rarity

January 7, 2016

Just days before Christmas, a rare event occurred: the report of a successful intrusion into America's infrastructure by overseas hackers. Although the event -- penetration of the control system of a dam 20 miles from New York City -- was more than two years old, it just made it into the public ligh...

Security Execs Sweat Insider Threats

December 31, 2015

Insider threats are becoming increasingly worrisome to corporate security executives. That is one of the findings in a survey of C-level businesspeople Nuix released last week. "The insider threat seems to be a bigger concern this year than it was in previous years," said Nuix's Keith Lowry. "People...

All Security Pros Want for Christmas: Smarter Users, Decoy Networks

December 24, 2015

People like to see gifts from their wish lists under the Christmas tree, and security pros are no exception. Here are things some cyberwarriors would like old St. Nick to deliver to them. The wish at the top of Ryan Kalember's Christmas list would be a tough one for Santa to fulfill, said the senior...

Hot Hacker Targets in 2016: Fantasy Sports, Professional Services

December 15, 2015

As 2016 approaches, it's time to get the crystal ball out and predict next year's cybersecurity trends. Here are some predictions from security pros TechNewsWorld interviewed. Fantasy sports sites like DraftKings and FanDuel in 2015 caught the attention of states' attorneys general, who wanted to tr...

'Tis the Season for Online Predators

December 3, 2015

While visions of holiday shoppers dance in retailers' heads, those visions are also on the minds of online marauders. Net predators are sticking to scams that have made them money throughout the year. "Over the last 12 months, we've seen a return to attachments with innocuous macros in them," said K...

New Tech Targets Enterprise Ransomware

November 23, 2015

SentinelOne last week introduced an addition to its behavioral solution designed to address the problem of ransomware scrambling files on a computer. Ransomware has been a scourge not only for consumers, but for the enterprise, too. The malicious software can be particularly nettlesome for enterpris...

FBI, Carnegie Mellon Deny $1M Contract to Crack Tor

November 19, 2015

The FBI has denied allegations that it paid Carnegie Mellon University security researchers $1 million to crack a network designed to protect the anonymity of its users. The Tor Project, which operates the network, last week accused the FBI of cutting the CMU deal. The attack occurred from January t...

Deep Learning App Targets Malware

November 10, 2015

Here's the problem with most programs aimed at killing malicious software: They need someone to tell them something's malicious. What if, however, the programs had the smarts to identify bad code on their own? That's what a company called Deep Instinct says its security solution, launched last week,...

Mobile Malware's Growth Slows, Nastiness Grows

November 4, 2015

The good news about mobile malware in 2015 is that growth has slowed down. The bad news is that the malware entering the market is more virulent than ever. While there hasn't been a sharp rise in the volume of mobile malware this year, the increasingly malicious nature of the types of malware and at...
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