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Dumb Privacy Rules: How Lawyers are Ruining It for Everyone
Father Guido Sarducci, comedian Don Novello’s eccumenical doppleganger, had a routine where he discussed the idea of the “5-minute University,” where he would teach you in five minutes everything you would remember ...
New Foreshadow Vulnerabilities Defeat Memory Defenses on Intel CPUs
Security researchers have uncovered a new way to exploit the speculative execution feature of Intel CPUs to bypass memory security barriers and leak protected information. The vulnerability, known as Foreshadow or L1 ...
Lack of User Privacy Threatens Security Defenses
Data threats come from three general fronts: individuals sharing too much information, data breaches and corporations selling increasingly granular customer data. Security professionals frequently sound warnings for the first two. The last ...
OneLogin Celebrates Diversity in Cybersecurity by Donating $55,000 at Black Hat Las Vegas
30+ of the World’s Top Hackers Join OneLogin’s Inaugural Bug Bounty Bash SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 15, 2018 — OneLogin, the industry leader in Unified Access Management, today announced the results of their inaugural ...
FireMon’s Annual State of the Firewall Report Finds Chronic Deficiencies in Basic Firewall Hygiene
Chaos and confusion reign with existing firewall Infrastructure; hybrid cloud and next-gen architectures promise to add even more complexity and risk OVERLAND PARK, KAN., and DALLAS – August 15, 2018 – FireMon, a global ...
Man-in-the-Disk Attack Lets Hackers Bypass Android App Sandbox Security
Researchers have devised a new attack technique that takes advantage of how apps use the external storage of Android devices to store files to bypass security restrictions. Under the Android security model each ...
Cyber Kill Switch: The Good, the Bad and the Potentially Ugly
When WannaCry struck, companies across the globe feared they would be next until an unsuspecting hero emerged, sink-holing the worm with a kill switch. Since then, security defenders across all sectors have ...
Imperva Completes the Acquisition of Prevoty
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – August 13, 2018 – Imperva, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMPV), a leading global provider of best-in-class cybersecurity solutions on premises, in the cloud, and across hybrid environments, announced it completed ...
Industrial Control Gateways: It’s Like Exploiting in the 1990s
Industrial control gateways play a critical role in industrial infrastructure, linking systems and sensors that communicate using protocols such as Modbus or serial to IP networks for easier remote management and monitoring ...
Security Boulevard’s 5 Most Read Stories for the Week, August 06-10
A new week, a new crop of security stories. Last week, U.S. Military ‘Reaper Drone’ Designs, Eavesdropping on mobile devices, Making security priority and Multifactor authentication adoption made the headlines. In addition, ...
