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24 best free security tools
Who doesn’t love free software? Infosec professionals are fortunate to have many good free tools for a range of …
Windows 10 Adoption Grew 75%, Adobe Flash Plummeted 188% in 2017: Report
A snapshot of the enterprise remote access space in 2017 reveals a few interesting trends: more businesses have adopted Windows 10 and …
Okta’s PassProtect checks your passwords with ‘Have I Been Pwned’
Okta just launched a free browser extension for Google Chrome today. After installing PassProtect, your browser will compare the passwords …
BrandPost: Applying the Hacker Mindset to Cybersecurity Strategy
The majority of hackers surveyed in the 2018 “Black Report”claimed they could breach a perimeter and exfiltrate data in less than a …
Pentagon’s websites need better security, Wyden says
If you try visiting certain Department of Defense websites, like the one for Strategic Operations Command or the Navy’s Blue Angels, you …
6 Steps for Applying Data Science to Security
Security practitioners are being told that they have to get smarter about how they use data. The problem is that many data scientists are …
Enterprise data increasingly accessed from mobile devices
12 mins ago Enterprise users are increasingly authenticating into applications from non-office networks, with a 10 percent increase in the …
VPNFilter – is a malware timebomb lurking on your router?
Researchers at Cisco Talos just published a report documenting a giant-sized IoT botnet known as VPNFilter. More than 500,000 devices …
How a URL shortener allows malicious actors to hijack visitors’ CPU power
URL shorteners are often used by malware peddlers and attackers to trick users into following a link they otherwise wouldn’t. But …
Database leak exposes personal records of nearly 1 million South Africans
Barely a year after South Africa’s largest data leak was revealed in 2017, the country has suffered yet another data leak as 934,000 …
WordPress Privacy Enhancements Help Websites Comply With GDPR
Today’s topics include a new WordPress update helping websites prepare for GDPR, and VMware announcing Integrated OpenStack 5 to …
How an URL shortener allows malicious actors to hijack visitors’ CPU power
URL shorteners are often used by malware peddlers and attackers to trick users into following a link they otherwise wouldn’t. But …
IDG Contributor Network: Data is the new air
In the infancy of any technology, there are going to be teachable moments. Prehistoric man’s mastery of fire didn’t come without a few …
WeLiveSecurity in running for European Security Blogger Awards. Vote now!
We’re delighted to announce that WeLiveSecurity has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2018 edition of the European Security Blogger …
Okta rolls out new tools aimed at eliminating passwords
It’s easy for individuals to get lazy about cybersecurity — just ask Donald Trump. That’s why the identity and device management company …
Okta introduces ‘Sign in with Okta’ service
Consider that there are millions of Okta users out there using the service to sign into their company applications with a single set of …
Okta offers free multi-factor authentication with new product, One App
Okta on Wednesday is introducing a new product called One App for smaller organizations — or organizations that need security for …
Privacy update: Apple just made it easier for you to download all the data it has about you
Apple has made it easier for customers to download the data the tech giant holds about them and the devices they use. cnet How to find out …
ChefConf 2018 focuses on application-centric application release automation
Chef Automate is the company’s continuous automation platform. The 2.0 version aims to rebuild the solution’s performance, scale and …
Insider Threat Controls: What Are the GDPR Implications?
Now that we’ve very nearly reached the deadline for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), insider threat management is more crucial …
Okta ‘freemium’ offer makes its authentication service available to anyone
Identity management software provider Okta Inc. is giving developers a free way to access its authentication service by exposing an …
If You Use Word, You Need to Turn Off This One Feature
This post is part of a weeklong series to help our readers improve their digital security. Follow along …
Best Practices for Cloud Generation Application Security
Present-day applications are constructed for performance and scale. To attain this, there is a growing popularity hosting these deployments …
Mobile Fraud Soars as Social Sites Help Scammers
Phishing continues to dominate the fraud landscape, accounting for nearly half of all attacks, but mobile fraud has jumped 650% over the …
#Oktane18: The Best Password is No Password says Okta CEO
At Oktane 18 in Las Vegas, Okta announced that organizations will be able to eliminate the login password as a primary factor of …
The bad password habits we just can’t break
1 min ago Despite a range of alternative authentication technologies, many systems still rely on passwords for their security. But a new …
Amazon Rekognition Stokes Surveillance State Fears
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , Privacy Amazon Rekognition Stokes …
Can Organisations Turn Back Time after a Cyber-Attack?
Cyber attacks can cripple a business and take days to clear up. For larger organisations that are affected by an incident, the cost of …
LA County Nonprofit Exposes 3.2M PII Files via Unsecured S3 Bucket
Los Angeles County 211, an LA-based nonprofit providing information and referrals for health and human services in LA County, accidentally …
Ultimate Hacking Training Bundle 2018 – Pay What You Want
Due to the growing number of threats in the computer world, ethical hackers have become the most important player for not only governments …
RHEL and CentOS Linux 7 Receive Mitigations for Spectre Variant 4 Vulnerability
As promised earlier this week, Red Hat released software mitigations for all of its affected products against the recently disclosed …
Surprise! Student receives $36,000 Google bug bounty for RCE flaw
What’s the only thing better than a bug bounty cheque? A bug bounty cheque you weren’t …
Getting to the How of Multicloud
Customers are moving beyond thinking about what multicloud is, when it’s coming (it’s already here) or why it’s accelerating. …
Bloomberg Reporters The Latest Tools Of Crypto Scammers — But Not The Last
Two Bloomberg reporters who cover cryptocurrency, technology, and business for the wire service have become the latest, unwitting tools of …
Should Mark Zuckerberg be fired? Security professionals have their say
Does the Cambridge Analytics scandal — and all the other Facebook privacy snafus — warrant the removal of its CEO? A survey of security …
Amazon Rekognition a possible threat to the civil rights of citizens
Amazon has come under fire from civil rights groups in the US that say their online service that identifies faces in images could be abused …