Cybersecurity is a lot like driving; towns and cities and their respective road crews can keep roads in ace condition and post all kinds of clearly marked signs for speed limits, road hazards, dangerous curves, blind driveways, and the like. Police can patrol the roads for dangerous or illegal driving.
Cisco has notified users of its Cisco Professional Careers mobile website of accidental data exposure, after an independent security researcher was able to access job application information from the site.
Despite unique attacks on their sector, IT professionals in retail are overconfident in their ability to quickly collect data needed to identify and remediate cyber-attacks.
Researchers Piers O'Hanlon and Ravishankar Borgaojkar from Oxford University expose two new IMSI-based catchers which allow for tracking and interception of data from most major smartphones.
Christopher Ahlberg, CEO of threat intelligence company Recorded Future told an audience at BlackHat Europe 2016 that despite attribution being based on "sloppy handle usage," his company has been mapping handle usage on across the internet for more accurate results.
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