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Two-Factor Authentication Transforms Even ‘123456’ Into a Secure Password
January 29, 2015 Added by:Patrick Oliver Graf
Since 2011, the same two passwords have ranked as the most common (and worst) among users. Care to take a guess as to what they are?
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Digital Reputation: Can’t Buy it, Gotta Earn It
January 29, 2015 Added by:Jonathan Curtis
Can’t buy it, gotta earn it, as the old saying goes. With a few short searches, it is easy to find tweets that have had a significant impact on the reputation of institutions, police departments, online ecommerce properties, and corporations in 2014.
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Two-Factor Authentication Transforms Even ‘123456’ Into a Secure Password
January 29, 2015 Added by:Patrick Oliver Graf
Since 2011, the same two passwords have ranked as the most common (and worst) among users. Care to take a guess as to what they are?
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Interview with Accuvant co-founder Dan Wilson
January 29, 2015 Added by:Robb Reck
In 2014 I began my quest to interview some of the most interesting folks in the Colorado security community. On a recent trip, I set out to talk with the biggest security shop in town… Accuvant I reached out through some of my friends over there and was set up a meeting with one of the co-founders, Dan Wilson.
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Suits and Spooks DC 2015: The Agenda - Last Chance to Register
January 29, 2015 Added by:Mike Lennon
Suits and Spooks DC is less than one week away! The event will be held at the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City on February 4-5. Due to multiple sell-out events, we have expanded our attendee capacity to 200, but the event is again close to being sold out.
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Thought Experiment: Mandatory Online Banking Security Standards
January 28, 2015 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Banks are required by law to follow government regulations; these subject the banks to specific requirements, restrictions and guidelines. The end goal being, among other things, transparency.
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Defeat The Casual Attacker First!!
January 28, 2015 Added by:Anton Chuvakin
I have not done a philosophical security blog post for a long time – and now I was suddenly inspired to write one while installing – rather, replacing with an HD version – security cameras at my house.
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New Legislation on Threat Intelligence Sharing May Have a Chance
January 28, 2015 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
But the four cybersecurity legislation bills that were approved last month did not address all of the top concerns, namely the creation of an information-sharing platform that would enable better information exchange about cyber-based threats between the public and private sectors.
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Google Says It’s Not Practical to Fix Flaws in Pre-KitKat Android
January 27, 2015 Added by:Eduard Kovacs
Researchers reported earlier this month that Google was no longer patching vulnerabilities affecting the WebView component in Android Jelly Bean (4.3) and prior.
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Do You Want “Security Analytics” Or Do You Just Hate Your SIEM?
January 27, 2015 Added by:Anton Chuvakin
Now that I’ve taken a fair number of “security analytics” client inquiries (with wildly different meanings of the phase), I can share one emerging pattern: a lot of this newly-found “analytics love” is really old “SIEM hatred” in disguise.
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Looking Logically at Legislation
January 27, 2015 Added by:Wendy Nather
There's a lot of fuss around the recent White House proposal to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and some level-headed analysis of it. There's also a lot of defensive and emotional reaction to it ("ZOMG we're going to be illegal!").