When a high-profile cybersecurity attack occurs, like the ones at Target or Home Depot, Sam Redden knows to be ready.
It's almost a given that Redden, chief security officer at Brazos Higher Education Service, a Waco, Texas-based company that services billions of dollars in student loans, will be summoned to brief his worried board of directors....
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An Australian IT consultant has been jailed for 3 years after hacking a WiFi network to get insider trading information. Also creating problems was a concerted attack on the world’s telecommunications companies, which saw more than 100GB of call record data stolen but fell short of the worst-case scenario. Telecoms providers aren’t the only ones that should be improving their cybersecurity game, however: with the introduction of new CPS 234 cybersecurity regulations on 1 July, boards...
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You must update your Google Chrome immediately to the latest version of the web browsing application. Security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group discovered and reported a high severity vulnerability in Chrome late last month that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and take full control of the computers. The vulnerability, assigned as CVE-2019-5786, affects the web browsing software for all major operating systems including Microsoft Windows, App...
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Only a third of small businesses believe they can manage IT security in house, due to a lack of resources and the rising tide of threats, according to a new global study. Security vendor Webroot polled IT decision makers at businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees in the US, UK and Australia. It found that just 37% said their organization is capable of managing security internally. A third of companies interviewed (32%) said IT staff had to balance information security with other tasks—m...
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The growing proliferation and sophistication of hackers, combined with greater reliance on interconnected applications, devices and systems, has created a security environment that’s challenging for even the best prepared organizations. Yet, defenses aren’t keeping up....
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“There has been some false reporting out there and obviously that kind of inflames the issue,” said House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who believes Russia was behind the election hacks and has long warned of Moscow’s nefarious digital plots....
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