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- March 23, 2018
23 Mar'18
CLOUD Act stirs tension between privacy advocates and big tech
Privacy advocates criticize Congress for passing the CLOUD Act as part of the omnibus spending bill, while big tech companies have expressed support for the controversial legislation.
- March 23, 2018
23 Mar'18
CSO Stamos leaving Facebook, according to reports
News roundup: Is Alex Stamos leaving Facebook? The CSO hasn't confirmed, but reports say yes. Plus, an Orbitz breach exposed the payment card data of 880,000 people, and more.
- March 23, 2018
23 Mar'18
AMD patches for Ryzen chip flaws due 'in the coming weeks'
AMD patches are in the works for the Ryzen and EPYC chip flaws announced without the normal disclosure, but CTS Labs continues to stress the severity of the issues.
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- March 22, 2018
22 Mar'18
Watson's Law: IBM preaches data stewardship as A.I. advances
At IBM's Think conference, executives discussed the importance of protecting and managing data as artificial intelligence offerings like Watson grow and touch more information.
- March 22, 2018
22 Mar'18
SAP CSO Justin Somaini on using blockchain for security
Blockchain has generated both hype and skepticism, but SAP CSO Justin Somaini believes the technology has applications for security that can improve open source software.
- March 21, 2018
21 Mar'18
Durov refuses to hand over Telegram encryption keys to FSB
CEO Pavel Durov continued to assert that Telegram encryption keys will not be shared with the FSB, despite the Russian Supreme Court denying the company's appeal.
- March 21, 2018
21 Mar'18
Risk & Repeat: OURSA takes RSA Conference to task
In this week's Risk & Repeat podcast, SearchSecurity editors discuss the emergence of OURSA to highlight diversity and the RSA Conference's lack of female keynote speakers.
- March 21, 2018
21 Mar'18
Firefox bug exposes passwords to brute force -- for nine years
A Firefox bug exposing the browser's master password to a simple brute force attack against inadequate SHA-1 hashing is still on the books after nearly nine years.
- March 21, 2018
21 Mar'18
How machine learning anomaly detection works inside SAP
SAP CSO Justin Somaini discusses how SAP uses machine learning for security tasks, like anomaly detection, and compares supervised and unsupervised algorithms.
- March 20, 2018
20 Mar'18
Illegitimate Facebook data harvesting may have affected elections
A whistleblower claims a company with suspicious motives exploited Facebook data harvesting to build profiles on 50 million users and influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election and Brexit vote.
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- March 20, 2018
20 Mar'18
IBM outlines visions for crypto anchors, lattice cryptography
At IBM's Think conference, Big Blue researchers discussed new security-centric projects around blockchain databases, crypto anchors and quantum-resilient encryption.
- March 16, 2018
16 Mar'18
Russian government hacking earns U.S. sanctions, warnings
The U.S. Treasury Department levied sanctions for Russian government hacking, as a joint alert from the FBI and DHS confirms election meddling and critical infrastructure attacks.
- March 16, 2018
16 Mar'18
Following Equifax data breach, executive charged with insider trading
News roundup: A CIO has been charged with insider trading after the Equifax data breach. Plus, Trump blocked Broadcom's acquisition of Qualcomm, and more.
- March 16, 2018
16 Mar'18
Leaked report on AMD chip flaws raises ethical disclosure questions
Researchers announced AMD chip flaws without the coordinated disclosure procedure, and a leak of the research to a short seller has raised further suspicions about the process.
- March 14, 2018
14 Mar'18
Risk & Repeat: Assessing the Memcrashed attacks
In this week's Risk & Repeat podcast, SearchSecurity editors discuss the Memcrashed exploit and the recent trend of record-setting DDoS attacks against enterprises.