“A lot of security departments are swimming in the wrong direction,” says Raef Meeuwisse, Director of Cybersecurity at Cyber Simplicity Ltd. By this, Meeuwisse means that companies haven’t yet redirected the scope of their security programs—the tools, technologies, and processes—to reflect current threats.
Security practitioners have long decried the practices of password sharing. Now an appellate court has bolstered that sentiment by handing down a decision in United States v. Nosal, ruling that a former employee of executive search firm Korn/Ferry International has violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
NASA Kepler's Twitter account was compromised Wednesday and an image of a woman's scantily clad backside as well as a link to a porn site were tweeted out.
Chelsea Manning, who as an Army intelligence officer transmitted more than 700,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks, was briefly hospitalized Tuesday for an apparent suicide attempt.
Even small, home-spun businesses have a handful of third-party vendors with which they must connect to keep the lights on and the money flowing. Larger organizations might have hundreds or thousands of partners in the supply chain.
The FBI won't recommend criminal charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the use of a private email to conduct State Department business.
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