By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: I’ve previously mentioned how proud I am to be associated with Invincea as an advisor. The press release below underscores some of why I am so excited to be on their team. –bg From: http://www.invincea.com/2015/01/invincea-announces-breakthrough-growt...
“Hackers have stolen the user names and e-mail addresses of 20 million members of a Russian dating website and offered the information for sale online, according to a Web security company.” Source: Security Company Says 20 Million Credentials Stolen From Russian Dating Website | News | The Mosco...
“Malaysia Airlines had its website hacked by a group that appeared to be trying to settle a score with a U.S. videogame company.” Source: Malaysia Airlines Website Hacked by Group Calling Itself ‘Cyber Caliphate’ – WSJ Via OODA Loop...
By Charles Hall Cyber threats are becoming more advanced, persistent, and focused. The threat landscape is rapidly changing, and evolving faster than ever. Today it is difficult to determine who is winning: either those behind the cyber threats, or those fighting to prevent and remediate the threats...
“‘In cyber, we have competitors, and we have competitors who maybe aren’t as constrained by legal systems and freedoms as we are,’ Dempsey said. ‘It’s going to be challenging to navigate this race.’” (Source: Dempsey: Civilian, private networks leave US vulnerable Via OODA Loop...
By Allen Bonde Editor’s note: Allen Bonde, of embedded analytics leader Actuate (now a subsidiary of OpenText), believes that the opportunities around Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables are about to change our world – and that of business applications. – bg There are offi...
“Nearly every U.S. weapons program tested in fiscal 2014 showed ‘significant vulnerabilities’ to cyber attacks, including misconfigured, unpatched and outdated software, the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester said in his annual report released Tuesday. Michael Gilmore, director of operational t...
“After exposing three critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, Google’s Project Zero vulnerability research program has revealed the existence of three more zero-day vulnerabilities, but this time, on Apple’s OS X platform.” (Source: Google reveals 3 Appl...