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Security, control and the future of the web – MIT ECIR
The MIT ECIR workshop was featured on theCUBE all week long. The Explorations in Cyber International Relations is an important event designed to elevate knowledge of the numerous issues in the world of international cyber relations from various disciplines, but focusing quite a bit on governance and cyber security. What the average person may not ...
CloudFlare CEO – 2014’s fight for the internet and a tighter security community
It’s rather clear how critical cybersecurity is in the midst of all the technology news happening right now and 2013 was a banner year for developments across the spectrum. 2014 is here and it can only get bigger. In the first part of our discussion with CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince, he discussed a very big ...
McAfee on Intel’s ‘Wasted opportunity’
You may have seen this everywhere during the last couple of days – the news that Intel will be phasing out the McAfee security brand name while keeping the shield and product the same. The announcement came from CES and was carried throughout the world of tech news. This development should close out a saga ...
A colossal cyber-economic attack is coming – Game Plan
The U.S. economy is in the cross-hairs of a major economic cyber attack. There is an alarming amount of evidence that it has not only happened before, but that it will be coming again. That’s the warning from author Kevin Freeman, in Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack – the ...
NSA building a quantum computing encryption-killer
Quantum computing is brought up in all kinds of conversations, usually on topics such as weather, medicine, and research. The NSA, however, views the technology as an opportunity to defeat almost every form of encryption possible. It is an interesting application because of the overwhelming computational capacity that quantum computing introduces. Many would agree that ...
CloudFlare CEO predicts a big year of DDoS threats ahead
As we look at what lies ahead in security, we find that subject of DDoS has come up again and again. So we went straight to CloudFlare for some predictions in 2014. CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince dropped in to answer some questions about the threat landscape. Prince: There’s two big trends ahead in DDoS attacks. First ...
DigiCert + security leadership : Looking ahead to 2014 + beyond
The year’s wrapping up but the cybersecurity predictions are hitting high gear. Today from DigiCert we have COO John Merrill and Flavio Martins, VP of Operations. DigiCert is at the nexus of modern security, providing enterprise security solutions in the fields of PKI, SSL, authentication and digital certificates. Their clients number more than 70,000 around ...
NSA intercepting and hacking laptops and other computer equipment
Just when you thought the NSA stories for the year were done – well lookout cause here we go again. This one is no less shocking than any previous story as it is now being reported that the NSA has been intercepting technology shipments, and modifying the products to install malware. According to the report ...
Target’s big mess: Customer PIN information part of breach
It turns out that the massive Target hack that compromised an estimated 40 Million accounts actually did include PIN numbers. As previously mentioned here, little facts are starting to trickle out. Now think big here, the picture is a bit more critical. With PIN information, thieves can clone debit cards onto new plastic cards, opening ...
[24]7 on retail, technology and the enterprise
Well the holiday retail rush is over, but that doesn’t mean that retailers are quite done yet. There are a number of trends and reports yet to be evaluated, re-evaluated, and improvements that will be tackled all around in preparation for next year. Add to that the cycle of returns and beginning of the year ...