Month: July 2018

Network Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Top six security and risk management trends

Business leaders are becoming increasingly conscious of the impact cybersecurity can have on business outcomes. Gartner said that security leaders should harness this increased support and take advantage of six emerging trends, to improve their organization’s resilience while elevating their own standing. Trend No. 1: Senior business executives are becoming aware that cybersecurity has a…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

Facebook Responding to US Regulators in Data Breach Probe

Facebook acknowledged Tuesday it was facing multiple inquiries from US and British regulators about the major Cambridge Analytica user data scandal. The leading social network offered no details but its admission confirmed reports of a widening investigation into the misuse of private data by Facebook and its partners. “We are cooperating with officials in the…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

Insider Threat: Common Myths and Misconceptions

Insider threat is a growing area of concern and confusion among security practitioners. Typically accustomed to concentrating their resources on combating external threats, many security teams are eager yet unsure of how to combat threats that arise internally. This uncertainty, unfortunately, is often exacerbated by numerous common myths and misconceptions about insider threat, some of…

Mobile Security

Issued by: Security Week

Researchers Create Attacks That Compromise LTE Data Communication

Newly devised attacks on the Long Term Evolution (LTE) high-speed wireless standard break the confidentiality and privacy of communication, team of researchers claim. In a newly published paper (PDF), researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum and New York University Abu Dhabi present a set of attacks against LTE’s data link layer (layer two) protocols, which could be…