ORGS HAVE FAILED TO MAKE NECESSARY SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS SINCE WANNACRY & PETYA

More than two-thirds of security professionals are not confident their organizations have made necessary security improvements since the WannaCry and Petya attacks earlier this year, according to new research from Tripwire. The firm’s survey found that, despite the severity and damage caused by the cyber-attacks just a few months ago, there are doubts about whether companies have reacted appropriately to improve their cyber-defenses, with Tripwire suggesting this lack of confidence could b...
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HOW WILL WINDOWS XP END OF SUPPORT AFFECT HEALTH IT SECURITY?

As is the case with most pending vendor support deadlines, the upcoming end of Microsoft Windows XP support on April 8, 2014 has been a polarizing topic in the enterprise and healthcare spaces. There are some organizations that may be unaware that Microsoft will no longer be providing security patches and others that are building Fort Knox 2.0 because of the XP end of support....
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CERTIFICATE AUTHORITIES AIM TO IMPROVE IDENTITY ASSURANCE

A group of leading SSL/TLS Certificate Authorities are working on the London Protocol effort to figure out what's needed to improve certificate identity assurance. The Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC) announced a new effort dubbed the "London Protocol" on June 27 in a bid to help improve identity assurance for web security certificates. The London Protocol benefits from the support of multiple Certificate Authority (CA) vendors, including Comodo CA, Entrust Datacard, G...
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ISF: COMPANIES SHOULD PROMOTE SECURE BEHAVIOR, RATHER THAN AWARENESS ALONE

The Information Security Forum (ISF) has released a report, “From Promoting Awareness to Embedding Behaviors,” which proposes that instead of simply making people aware of their information security responsibilities and how they should respond, the answer is to embed positive information security behaviors that will result in “stop and think” behavior becoming a habit and part of an organization’s information security culture....
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DRONES POSE CYBER-SECURITY AND PRIVACY THREATS, SAYS REPORT

Without new safeguards, the growing use of drones in populated areas brings significant risks that could result in attacks by "malicious entities" An open-skies policy that allow drones to fly over populated areas pose significant risks in terms of security and privacy within society, a new study warns. And without additional safeguards, could result in attacks by malicious entities and be exploited for use in cyber-attacks, terrorism, crime and invasion of privacy the research report,...
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POLAND'S MILITARY STRIKES NEW DEAL TO BOLSTER CYBERSECURITY, STARTING WITH CRYPTOGRAPHY

With the turmoil in neighbouring Ukraine , the timing of a new deal between the Polish ministry of defence and three of the country's universities to boost cybersecurity seems hardly likely to be a coincidence....
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