Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water: An Akamai India CSR Flagship Initiative

Continuing in our commitment to sustainability, Akamai is excited to announce the launch of our accelerator program supporting innovators and building solutions to address India's water challenges. A concerted effort by the Akamai India leadership team, the accelerator program is being launched a...

An Accelerator Program for Early Stage Innovations in Water

Continuing in our commitment to sustainability, Akamai is excited to announce the launch of our accelerator program supporting innovators and building solutions to address India's water challenges...

Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe and Americans are told to isolate from others, many organizations are sending employees home to work. While most respondents in a Threatpost poll this week said they feel prepared from a security standpoint for this transition, a fifth of them...

Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe and Americans are told to isolate from others, many organizations are sending employees home to work. While most respondents in a Threatpost poll this week said they feel prepared from a security standpoint for this transition, a fifth of them...

A COVID-19 Cybersecurity Poll: Securing a Remote Workforce

This poll is now closed. For the results, please see our article, Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven, available here. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep the globe, and cities and states impose social-distancing measures, businesses are sending their users home to work. And this...

Working from Home: COVID-19's Constellation of Security Challenges

As the threat of coronavirus continues to spread, businesses are sending employees home to work remotely, and students are moving to online classes. But with the social distancing comes a new threat – a cyber-related one. As organizations rush to shift their businesses and classes online,...

Let’s Encrypt Pushes Back Deadline to Revoke Some TLS Certificates

Let’s Encrypt said it will give users of its Transport Layer Security TLS certificates more time to replace 1 million certificates that are still active and potentially affected by a Certificate Authority Authorization CAA bug before it revokes them. The popular free certificate authority had giv...

Quality is Job One When it Comes to the HITRUST CSF Assurance Program

The HITRUST CSF® remains an essential security and privacy controls framework that addresses the multitude of security, privacy, and regulatory challenges facing both public and private sector organizations. As framework adoption increases across all industries, maintaining integrity is crucial,...

IoTGoat - A Deliberately Insecure Firmware Based On OpenWrt

The IoTGoat Project is a deliberately insecure firmware based on OpenWrt. The project’s goal is to teach users about the most common vulnerabilities typically found in IoT devices. The vulnerabilities will be based on the IoT Top 10 as documented by OWASP:...

Deal: Cloud And Networking Certification Training ~ Get 97% OFF

Cloud computing and networking are two of the most significant areas of growth in the IT business. Companies need engineers who can maintain distributed software and keep the company connected. If you want to work in either niche, the Essential Cloud & Networking Certification Training Bundle...

Unifying security policy across all mobile form-factors with Wandera and Microsoft

The way we work is evolving—technology enables more effective employees by helping them to be productive where and when they choose. Businesses have also been enjoying the productivity benefits of an always-on and always-connected workforce. While new business applications and device form-factors...

picoCTF-2019-writeups

The repository is a collection of write-ups for the picoCTF 2019 challenge. The write-ups cover various challenges, including general skills, web exploitation, and reverse engineering. The challenges involve solving problems such as decoding messages, exploiting vulnerabilities, and reversing...

Katie Moussouris: The Bug Bounty Conflict of Interest

Since the launch of the Hack the Pentagon program in 2016, bug bounty programs continue to increase in popularity – however, as more programs are created, some companies are forgetting the real reason behind bug bounties. Instead of aiming to make their systems more secure, companies are viewing...

Attacking Driverless Cars with Projected Images

Interesting research -- "Phantom Attacks Against Advanced Driving Assistance Systems": Abstract: The absence of deployed vehicular communication systems, which prevents the advanced driving assistance systems ADASs and autopilots of semi/fully autonomous cars to validate their virtual perception...

Download: The State of Breach Protection 2020 Survey Report

Cynet launched in December 2019 the State of Breach Protection 2020 Survey. Based on the responses from 1,536 individuals, they now share the survey report that includes common practices, priorities, and preferences of security leaders as they strive to secure their organization from a breach...

Download: The State of Security Breach Protection 2020 Survey Results

What are the key considerations security decision-makers should take into account when designing their 2020 breach protection? To answer this, we polled 1,536 cybersecurity professionals in The State of Breach Protection 2020 survey Download the full survey here to understand the common practices...

Facebook Security Debacles: 2019 Year in Review

Facebook Security: 2019 Year in Review Facebook spent the past year both trying to deal with the consequences of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that rocked its public relations in 2018, as well as other issues afflicting the social media platform – from data security challenges to political...

Podcast: The Roadblocks and Opportunities For Women in Cybersecurity

In 2019, diversity in the cybersecurity was thrust to the forefront with recognition from both vendors and experts. The tech industry is facing challenges around diversity in general, but women are particularly underrepresented. And with an estimated 3.5 million jobs are expected to remain unfill...

The 2020 State of Breach Protection Survey – Call for Participation

2010-2019 decade will be remembered as the time in which cybersecurity became acknowledged as a critical concern for all organizations. With rapidly growing security needs and respective budgets, it is now more essential than ever for security decision-makers to zoom out of the 'products' mindset...

Report: Organizations remain vulnerable to increasing insider threats

The latest data breach at Capital One is a noteworthy incident not because it affected over 100 million customer records, 140,000 Social Security numbers SSNs, and 80,000 linked bank accounts. Nor was it special because the hack was the result of a vulnerable firewall misconfiguration. Many still...