Week 6 of Girls Who Code: Artificial Intelligence and Human Expertise at Watson Health

Week 6 of the Girls Who Code summer-immersion program at Akamai featured a field trip to IBM's Watson Health, where the girls learned about the concept of "cognitive computing," and how this technology is being used by IBM to help doctors help their patients. The girls met some of the women at IB...

How to Become a Master Threat Hunter

Editor’s Note: The text appears in the free eBook: “Threat Hunting for Dummies.” After you’ve been threat hunting in an environment forsix months, a year, or more, you’re going to become a senior in most circles. You’re expanding your skills and knowledge, you’re building and using tools, and...

expertisefrance.fr XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.expertisefrance.fr/content/search?SearchText=%3Cscript%3Ealert%27OPENBUGBOUNTY%27%3C/script%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 1113024 VIP website status:| No Check...

PT-2018-37: Unauthorized Actions in APC Uninterrupted Power Supplies

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Unauthorized Actions vulnerability in APC Uninterrupted Power Supplies. Vulnerability in Schneider Electric's MGE SNMP/Web Card 66074 installed in MGE UPS and MGE STS, related to the integrated web server Port 80/443/TCP, allows...

If we stand still, we go backwards

Recently, ppk claimed the web is going too fast in the wrong direction, and asked for a year's moratorium on web features. I was so angry I ran straight to a dictionary to find out what "moratorium" meant. Turns out it means "suspension". I got a bit snarky about it on Twitter, which isn't really...

NSA Director Urges Cyber-Resilience at Billington Summit

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In his keynote address at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit, NSA Director and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, Admiral Mike Rogers, explained that the Defense Department and corporate information security teams must focus on cyber-resiliency rather than total network...

Is It Time for Certified ICS Security Specialists?

The information security field is full of certifications – CompTIA, GIAC, CHE, ISC2 CISSP, CISM, with a vast number of areas and directions within these families. In the industrial space, the most “unsecured” enterprise sector compared to well-established information security practice in most...

Hacker jailed for ATM skimming invented ATM security scheme

A Romanian man serving a five-year jail sentence in Romania for his involvement in an ATM skimming scheme, has developed a device designed to protect ATMs from such attacks. 33-year-old Valentin Boanta who is being detained in a prison from Vaslui, Romania, after he was convicted on charges of ba...

Alliance Issues Guidance for Cloud-Based SIEM Services

The non-profit Cloud Security Alliance today released guidelines for the nascent Security as a Service SecaaS specialization within the broader realm of cloud computing. The goal, the group says, is to help companies and consumers gain a better handle on how best to evaluate, build and deploy...

Despite Intrusions, Chances Of U.S.-China Cyber War Are Small

SAN FRANCISCO – A panel of security and policy experts said that, despite dire warnings about the information warfare capabilities of China and other developing nations, the risk of an all-out cyber war is remote, and that the U.S. still holds many of the cards. Despite widespread portrayals of...

97% of Cyber Crimes in Gurgaon Go Unreported, Say Police

Police in India report that 97 percent of cyber crimes remain unreported in Gurgaon, a city less than 20 miles from New Delhi. Industry representatives are now collaborating with law enforcement to tackle this issue, according to Times of India. Last week, the IT and business process outsourcing...

New Certifications Will Set High Bar for IT Security Pros

A new non-profit group is developing certifications for information technology security professionals that will set a high bar for IT security practitioners in areas like penetration testing, code auditing and control systems operation. The National Board of Information Security Examiners NBISE i...

Operating System Choice Does Not Equal Security

Yesterday while some of us in the USA were enjoying a day off Google made the news with this article in the Financial Times stating that they are moving away from Microsoft Windows due to security concerns. My first reaction was to question why a company with as many smart brains as Google would...

House Passes Cybersecurity Bill

The House today overwhelmingly passed a bill aimed at building up the United States’ cybersecurity army and expertise, amid growing alarm over the country’s vulnerability online. Read the full story New York Times...

DHS Wants You: 1,000 Security Jobs to Be Filled

The Department of Homeland Security is planning a major hiring spree, looking to fill as many as 1,000 cybersecurity positions over the course of the next three years. The department announced the new initiative Thursday, marking DHS’s first real push to hire a large number of information securit...

Private sector relations should be job one for cyber security czar

Whoever is brave enough to fill the soon-to-be-created cybersecurity czar position will find a rather large pile of challenges waiting. Among them will be dealing with a confused and argumentative Congress, doing a full-scale assessment of the country’s critical infrastructure and reaching out to...

The most important questions to ask your MSSP

From SearchMidmarketSecurity Mike Chapple Many SMB IT administrators face a serious challenge when it comes to delivering serious security to their users. They may not have the budget or expertise they need and outsourcing can be expensive and troublesome if it’s not approached in the right way. ...

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