Every financial institution is being challenged by its executives to move faster. With software applications at the forefront of innovation, IT organizations are under increasing pressure from lines of businesses to deliver applications faster while meeting internal IT directives to cut costs, protect customer...
From the moment the RSA Conference 2016 launched, speakers began debating the merits of the Apple/FBI case. Eminent cryptographers, NSA Director Mike Rogers and U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch all offered related opinions.
The impasse over whether Apple should help law enforcement open encrypted iPhones continued during a House hearing, as FBI Director James Comey and Apple's top lawyer, Bruce Sewell, didn't budge from their positions.
The world's economy is built on the flow, sharing, and processing of data. Before the Internet could power the global economy, trusting data to be authentic, private, and unaltered was both a core requirement and an insurmountable barrier. The solution was the use of cryptographic keys and digital certificates to...
A federal magistrate in Brooklyn, N.Y., unlike another judge in California, has denied a request by federal authorities to force Apple to retrieve data from an iPhone, this time in a New York narcotics case.
A new report from California's attorney general says failure to implement 20 critical security controls constitutes a lack of "reasonable security." So, could failure to adopt controls pose a legal threat to organizations? Perhaps, under certain circumstances.
The Internal Revenue Service, for the second time since August, has revised upward the number of accounts victimized in its Get Transcript breach, with the tax agency saying the personal information from as many as 724,000 taxpayers' accounts may have been stolen.
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As the debate intensifies over Apple's refusal to help the FBI crack the iPhone password of one of the San Bernardino shooters, Rep. Will Hurd says Congress should not rush to enact legislation that would require technology companies to weaken encryption. Hurd chairs a subcommittee with cybersecurity oversight.
Think it's tough now for the government to compel Apple to retrieve encrypted data from a locked iPhone? According to news reports, Apple is busy creating new devices and services that will be even harder to hack.
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Although DoS attacks are not a recent phenomenon, the methods and resources available to conduct and mask such attacks have dramatically evolved to include distributed (DDoS) and, more recently, distributed reflector (DRDoS) attacks. These attacks simply cannot be addressed by traditional on-premise solutions....
It used to be that security was the one big barrier to organizations embracing the cloud. But Troy Kitch of Oracle says that not only is that barrier coming down, but now leaders are seeing cloud as a security enabler.
Who's right: Apple or the FBI? Our readers continue to debate a magistrate judge ordering Apple to help unlock an iPhone tied to a San Bernardino shooter, raising such issues as strong crypto, backdoors as well as legal and moral responsibilities.
Cybercriminals spend as much time trying to break into your enterprise as you do growing your business. Attackers collaborate their skills and execute well-structured strikes that take advantage of the many points of entry into your systems. To fight back you need your own unified plan of attack so that you can better...
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