National Guard soldiers from Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah are deploying to Fort Meade, Maryland, as part of a cyber protection team supporting U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. The Colorado guard said Thursday Cyber Protection Team 174 will help the Defense Department with network security and cyber defensive operations. The deployment will last a year. The team's assignment is to help commanders operate freely in the cyber domain as well as on the ground while denyin...
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Gartner has predicted that worldwide information security spending will reach $86.4 billion in 2017; a seven percent growth over the year. Spending is expected to increase to $93 billion in 2018. The fastest growing sector is security services; especially in IT outsourcing, consulting and implementation services. The only area where growth is likely to slow down is hardware support services, which are becoming less necessary with the continuing adoption of virtual appliances, public cloud and Se...
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Going best-of-breed is the way to stop intrusion prevention systems (IPS) from being a dying breed, says new research from Frost & Sullivan (F&S)....
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A new set of cybersecurity regulations for financial institutions is being finalized by the New York State Department of Financial Services. New York state will be the first in the nation to implement its own set of cybersecurity regulations for banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions operating under DFS scrutiny to ensure the safety of consumers and financial records. DFS has mulled over the plan throughout this year, making adjustments following a 45-day comment period that...
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Researchers at security giant Symantec have released details on what they say is confirmation that the proof-of-concept (PoC) threat known as Mabouia could be used to create functional OS X crypto ransomware. Detected by Symantec as OSX.Ransomcrypt, Mabouia was developed by Brazilian cybersecurity researcher Rafael Salema Marques, who wrote the PoC malware to highlight the fact that Macs may not be immune to the threat of ransomware. It works by encrypting files on the infected computer and send...
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Insecure kiddie-IoT-tat merchant VTech has decided its insecurity is its users' fault.
As noted by developer-blogger Troy Hunt, VTech has updated its terms and conditions after its brain-dead security practices led to the leaking of its customers' personal information....
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