In a testament to how security testing for software has evolved, Bugcrowd has reported a 400% growth in revenue year-over-year. It has also more than doubled its customer base while tripling employee headcount from 2014....
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A British man pleaded guilty last week in a German court to launching a cyberattack that resulted in more than one million customers of telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom experiencing Internet disruptions. German media has identified the 29-year-old man as “Peter Parker” and “Spiderman,” online monikers linked to domains used to coordinate some attacks powered by the notorious Mirai malware. He was also identified by Handelsblatt as Daniel K. A blog post publish...
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Making encryption backdoors available to law enforcement would be bad for cybersecurity in general and hurt vendors that make encryption gear, a presidential advisory group says....
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As 2016 begins, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Finra have again placed cybersecurity at or near the top of their areas of emphasis, which could lead to a new round of enforcement activity, say compliance experts.“The prudence of the industry demands that cybersecurity be made a top priority, if not the No. 1 priority for financial firms in 2016,” says Michelle Jacko, CEO of San Diego-based compliance consultant Core Compliance and Legal Services. “It’s im...
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“The issue of online anonymity is a complex one,” said Sebastien Lahtinen, co-founder of thinkbroadband.com, in a statement emailed to Infosecurity. “The Internet has empowered many users by providing them with a platform to share views openly without fear of retribution or judgment, but we also see people making hurtful comments online that they would never consider making offline, in the expectation that their comments would never be attributed to them. Recent trials around a...
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Now that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the official version of its Cybersecurity Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, meant to promote public-private information sharing, the question becomes how to spur along implementation by organizations. To help ease the process, the Information Security Forum (ISF) has created a mapping between the framework and its annual Standard of Good Practice for IT security professionals....
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