Rapid7, a Boston-based vulnerability management and penetration testing company, has acquired Seattle start-up Mobilisafe, which makes cloud-based mobile risk management technology.
Companies are permitting BYOD even if they have policies against it. But a set of best practices, covering areas such as IT inventory and device detection, can mitigate many of the corresponding risks.
With users flocking toward mobile platforms, fraudsters will join as well. But businesses have a bigger problem: What to do about employees wanting to use their devices to connect to the corporate network.
Most BYOD discussions focus on technical issues, such as how to identify offending devices, how to keep them off the network, or how to limit the types of devices. But nobody is talking about the human element.
In his new book, Kill Decision, Daniel Suarez focuses exclusively on one technology used in his previous books Daemon and to a larger extent, Freedom (TM): autonomous or semi-autonomous machines. Kill Decision is a technological (or “cyber”) thriller which pits a CIA consultant and an academic researcher against the political and military war machine. It’s […]
The vulnerability, which affects various Galaxy models, could allow an attacker to initiate a factory reset on phones, remotely wiping them, if they are able to trick a victim into visiting a malicious web page.
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