Monthly Archives: February 2018
U.S. Indicts 13 Russians in Plot to Influence 2016 Election Campaign
A group of 13 Russians and three related organizations have been indicted for carrying out a series of cyber-crimes conducted over nearly three years...
Google to Acquire LogMeIn’s Xively IoT Management Platform
Google has announced plans to acquire LogMeIn’s Xively business unit for $50 million in a move that should help bolster Google's capabilities in the...
Researchers Show Docker Containers at Risk for Crypto-Currency Attacks
The characteristics of cloud containers that make them attractive to data center managers also make them attractive to crypto-miners. The ease of setup, the isolation...
Visual Studio Code Added to Anaconda Python Distro for Data Scientists
Anaconda, a distribution of the Python programming language, now includes Visual Studio Code, announced Microsoft and Anaconda, Inc."Visual Studio Code can easily be installed...
Five Security Truisms That Have Stood the Test of Time
We’ve all seen it: The data security industry has been on a wild ride during the last three decades, from the initial “glory attacks”...
Qualcomm Introduces Speedy Snapdragon X24 LTE Modem for Mobile Devices
The new LTE chipset, expected to be available in some smartphones and other mobile devices by the end of 2018, will be demonstrated at...
FedEx Customer Data Left Publicly Exposed on Cloud Storage Server
FedEx is the latest company to have inadvertently left personally identifiable information, publicly exposed on a cloud storage server.On Feb. 15, security firm Kromtech...
U.S. Formally Accuses Russia of Launching NotPetya Ransomware Attack
When organizations in the Ukraine first began reporting in June 2017 that they had been impacted by a ransomware attack known as NotPetya, there...
IT Risk Assessments Suffer From Lack of Automation, Planning: KPMG
IT Risk Assessments Suffer From Lack of Automation, Planning: KPMG
The vast majority of organizations are taking a “reactive and siloed” approach to IT risk...
Spam Volume Down, Phishing Attacks Up in 2017, Kaspersky Lab Finds
Spam Volume Down, Phishing Attacks Up in 2017, Kaspersky Lab Finds
To no one's surprise, spam and phishing attacks continued to be security challenges in...