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- August 29, 2019
29 Aug'19
Suspect in Capital One breach indicted for additional intrusions
The alleged Capital One hacker, Paige Thompson, was charged with additional counts of fraud and abuse for stealing data from more than 30 other organizations.
- August 28, 2019
28 Aug'19
Imperva security incident exposes cloud WAF customer data
Imperva told its cloud WAF customers to change passwords and SSL certificates after a security incident exposed data and potentially put customers at risk for further attacks.
- August 28, 2019
28 Aug'19
Breaking into cybersecurity careers through nontraditional paths
Some DEF CON attendees discussed their nontraditional paths into cybersecurity and how networking and being eager to learn can bridge the gap between experience and job requirements.
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- August 26, 2019
26 Aug'19
Puppet launches its first vulnerability remediation product
Puppet Remediate is a vulnerability remediation product that shares data between security and IT ops, provides risk-based prioritization and offers agentless remediation.
- August 23, 2019
23 Aug'19
Carbon Black acquisition bolsters VMware's security play
VMWare announced an agreement to acquire endpoint security vendor Carbon Black in an effort to boost its cloud security offerings; the all-cash deal is valued at $2.1 billion.
- August 23, 2019
23 Aug'19
DARPA unveils first SSITH prototype to mitigate hardware flaws
DARPA is still in the early prototype stages of its SSITH program, but the aim is to develop an open source chip able to block hardware attacks and reduce the need for software patches.
- August 20, 2019
20 Aug'19
KNOB attack puts all Bluetooth devices at risk
Security researchers discovered a way to force Bluetooth devices to use easy-to-crack encryption keys, which could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks and information leaks.
- August 20, 2019
20 Aug'19
Why is patch management important?
Borderless networks present new challenges for security pros. Andrew Froehlich explains how this trend makes patch management even more important.
- August 19, 2019
19 Aug'19
2020 election security to face same vulnerabilities as in 2016
Confidence in the security of the 2020 election spanned the gamut, depending on who you asked at DEF CON's Voting Village, with local officials more optimistic than technologists.
- August 14, 2019
14 Aug'19
Microsoft discovers BlueKeep-like flaws in Remote Desktop Services
Microsoft disclosed four remote code execution flaws in Remote Desktop Services that are similar to BlueKeep, as well as other vulnerabilities in RDP.
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- August 14, 2019
14 Aug'19
IoT botnets reach new threshold in Q2 of 2019
Defending against the rising number and increasing sophistication of IoT botnet attacks isn't an easy task. Learn about the latest threats and the techniques to mitigate them.
- August 14, 2019
14 Aug'19
Latest news from the Black Hat 2019 conference
Learn the latest from this year's Black Hat conference, Aug. 3 to 8. Our team is in Las Vegas to report on what's new in information security risks, trends and defense tactics.
- August 13, 2019
13 Aug'19
Google wants Project Zero to be part of an open alliance
After five years of running Project Zero, Google wants to expand the scope to an open alliance of vulnerability researchers all working toward the same goal to 'make 0day hard.'
- August 12, 2019
12 Aug'19
Why cyber insurance policies are so 'ridiculously cheap'
The cyber insurance market is growing rapidly and policies are incredibly inexpensive -- but experts at Black Hat 2019 had concerns about those low prices.
- August 12, 2019
12 Aug'19
Black Hat 2019 brings out new security, protection offerings
The 22nd Black Hat conference in Las Vegas brought together a slew of vendors in network and data security with a variety of security offerings to pitch.