A crucial bottleneck that prevents life-saving surgery being performed in many parts of the world is the lack of trained surgeons. One way to get around this is to make better use of the ones that are available....
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Intelligence agencies and cybersecurity: What a long, strange trip it's been. Flash back to 2000, when Richard C. Schaeffer, then the U.S. Defense Department's director of information assurance, showed up to Def Con to pitch the hacking community on government employment. "We've got some of the most sophisticated toys in the world if you'd like access to those toys," he told the Las Vegas audience. Attending that Def Con as a reporter, I saw evidence of intelligence age...
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Britain’s treasury chief has warned that cyber attacks are increasing in severity and sophistication as authorities open a new center devoted to thwarting such threats. Philip Hammond has urged businesses to “sharpen” their approach as the attacks intensify....
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Legacy software vulnerabilities have created opportunities for hackers to steal credit card data and other personal information using tiny point of sale (POS) malware, according to research published by Forcepoint. Researchers reportedly analyzed 2,000 samples of POS malware and found that many are handcrafted, written in assembly code and very small; thus, researchers aptly named the malware TinyPOS. Of the samples analyzed, 95% were loaders used to distribute malware to systems. In addition, r...
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A new report looking at how organizations view the future of cyberthreats and these organizations’ current defenses, found that while IT spending is increasing, confidence in the efficacy of cyber protection is declining. In a survey of more than 800 IT security leaders and professionals, the report found that more than 70 percent of respondents’ networks had been breached in 2014 — a 62 percent increase from 2013. Security concerns are only going to increase as the number of I...
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Google's cybersecurity project named "Chronicle" is imploding in trouble and some employees feel its management "abandoned and betrayed" the original vision, media reports said. Chronicle's CEO and Chief Security Officer have already left, and the Chief Technology Officer is leaving later this month while other key officials are eyeing an exit, according to the Motherboard. In a blog post announcing his departure, Stephen Gillett, CEO of Chronicle said he is leaving t...
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