Live Webinar: What Most Computer Security Defenses Are Doing Wrong and How to Fix It

Mar 2, 2018 2:23:39 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Most companies have huge gaps in their computer security defenses, and can be compromised at will by a determined hacker. The industry even has a term for it: “Assume Breach”. But it ...

IT Security in the enterprise: Things are looking up!

Jan 28, 2018 9:33:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Cybersecurity is quickly becoming the number one business priority, says identity and access management company Okta. Based on the results of an analysis of authentication and ...

New Survey: IT Security Spending Is Up, But Security Is Not, Ransomware Is The Biggest Worry

Oct 7, 2017 11:11:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The second-annual Cyren-Osterman Research U.S. security survey shows a significant disconnect between rising IT security spending and a low level of confidence in current protection, ...

ITIC / CyberheistNews Top 10 IT Security Recommendations May 2017

Jun 7, 2017 11:06:37 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

By Laura DiDio There is no such thing as a 100% fully secure environment. And there never will be. Security is not static; it is an ongoing work in progress. Organizations must be ...

Who Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet?

Oct 24, 2016 10:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It was all over the news. A sustained DDoS attack that caused outages for a large number of Web sites Friday was launched with the help of hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices. Jeff ...

Researchers discover new malicious IoT worm

Oct 24, 2016 7:54:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Researchers at RapidityNetworks discovered a new malicious worm using Telnet that infects IoT devices using their insecure default credentials and uses a peer-to-peer network to install ...

Is Security Making The Grade? What IT And Business Pros Really Think

Oct 2, 2016 10:04:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Great joint survey by CSO, CIO and ComputerWorld by Amy Bennett which is excelllent ammo to add to a budget request that needs to be approved by a C-level exec. Here's why: "If you sense ...

IT Security Is A Protoscience, Think 19th Century Chemistry

Aug 28, 2016 2:39:14 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

So I get the Andreessen Horowitz newsletter. It has a topic called "Security is a protoscience (and more on 'so you want to work in security') - Michal Zalewski" I'm intrigued so I click ...

Why does Kevin Mitnick recommend 20-character passwords?

Jul 27, 2016 10:15:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The background is based on current state-of-the-art password cracking technology. In short, hackers penetrate the network, get access to a domain controller and pull the file with all ...

Personal security cameras hacked, stream live on websites

Jul 6, 2016 10:00:00 AM By TAMPA BAY, FL

Shocking video of people's private lives are streaming over the internet. Hackers are able to easily tap into personal security cameras and stream them on websites for the world to see, ...

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Live Webinar: What Most Computer Security Defenses Are Doing Wrong and How to Fix It

IT Security in the enterprise: Things are looking up!

New Survey: IT Security Spending Is Up, But Security Is Not, Ransomware Is The Biggest Worry

ITIC / CyberheistNews Top 10 IT Security Recommendations May 2017

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Researchers discover new malicious IoT worm

Is Security Making The Grade? What IT And Business Pros Really Think

IT Security Is A Protoscience, Think 19th Century Chemistry

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