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Identity Verification: Is Your Potential Employee Who They Say They Are?
Identity verification has taken on a new urgency for cybersecurity and IT teams in the new era of remote work. Confirming a person’s identity has been important since the advent of data ...
Great British Prank: Company Name Contains XSS Hack
A prankster registered a British company name containing a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. Hilarity ensued ...
Survey Sees AI, Automation Cast Shadow Over Security Careers
A survey of 350 security professionals in the U.S., Singapore, Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom suggests younger cybersecurity professionals tend to be more conflicted about advances in artificial intelligence (AI) than ...
Court Greenlights Accenture/Marriott Breach Suit
A court has ruled that Accenture, as a service provider to Starwood, owed a duty to prevent data breaches to Starwood’s customers In September 2018, Bethesda, Maryland-based Marriott International’s subsidiary chain Starwood ...
23% of Windows in Use is Old, Insecure Win7 or XP
Windows 7 and XP are obsolete, but that hasn’t stopped almost a quarter of Windows users using them. It’s a security nightmare waiting to happen ...
HackNotice to Democratize Threat Intelligence
HackNotice announced today it has added a set of free analysis and visualization tools to enable end users to know when their personally identifiable information has been disclosed. The tools, dubbed Risk ...
Cybercriminals Shift Tactics Against OT Networks
Most of the focus on security during the COVID-19 pandemic has been on employees working from home, accessing applications in the cloud or running on local servers in an office. However, a ...
The CISO’s Dilemma: Balancing Security, Productivity With a Housebound Workforce
How are CISOs managing the tug-of-war between IT security and worker productivity in this new, remote-first era? Before the pandemic, remote work was already on a gradual rise. A FlexJobs survey revealed ...
U.S. Health Care Under Attack
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), have issued a cybersecurity advisory to the U.S ...
Cryptocurrency: Fact vs. Fiction
Paul Lee is the CISO of Uphold, a leading technology platform to trade between cryptocurrencies, precious metals and U.S. equities. Paul is considered a leading expert on blockchain and cryptocurrency. In this ...
