Day: March 13, 2017

How much are vendor security assurances worth after the CIA leaks?

Following the recent revelations about the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s cyber espionage arsenal, software vendors reiterated their commitments to fix vulnerabilities in a timely manner and told users that many of the flaws described in the agency’s leaked documents have been fixed. While these assurances are understandable from a public relations perspective, they don’t really

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IDG Contributor Network: Preparing for the professional cybercrime industry

Cybercrime has become big business. These days, you’re not protecting your information systems from a guy in his basement who hacks random websites for the thrill of it. You’re up against full-blown professional cybercrime “companies” that employ everyone from customer service reps to graphic designers. Brian Krebs recently published a story mentioning a “slick and

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