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DARPA Stress Tests its Hardware-Centric Security Approach
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a cyber security effort several years back designed to replace commonly used security patches for software applications with the ability to spot ...Full Article
Malware Goes ‘Polymorphic’
Malware is evolving, appearing in many forms as malicious code infiltrates computing platforms under many guises. Security experts refer to this chameleon-like malware as “polymorphic code,” and one researcher ...Full Article
Hacker Survey: Simple Attacks Breach Systems in a Day
A security vendor survey of professional hackers finds that many are able to easily defeat “perimeter defenses” like firewalls, then pinpoint and steal critical data in less than a ...Full Article
U.S.: Cybersecurity Must Go Beyond Passwords
If indeed we are operating in a "digital economy," standard security measures such as passwords are no longer sufficient to shield the underlying IT infrastructure from sophisticated hackers, asserts ...Full Article
Forecast: Hackers Target Software-Based Nets
Among the growing list of security threats expected to expand in the coming year are hackers probing emerging software-defined infrastructure for vulnerabilities. According to a security forecast released this ...Full Article
What Will We Do About the Cybersecurity Pearl Harbor?
When I first started to equate the massive and consequential breaches suffered during the recent past with multiple Pearl Harbors, a few people thought I was over dramatic and ...Full Article
Hackers Carjack Jeep in IoT Nightmare
Two hackers successfully took control of a Jeep Cherokee as it hurtled along a highway at 70 miles per hour, turning an Internet of Things nightmare into reality – ...Full Article
RAND Corp: Manage Security Like a Business
Organizations must figure out a better way to manage cybersecurity like a business, using metrics to determine the relative return on investment (RROI), and constantly evaluating the lifecycle and ...Full Article
Wikileaks Posts Hacked Sony Files in Searchable Database
In a corporate nightmare turned reality, Wikileaks on Thursday posted a searchable database of all the Sony information hackers stole from the movie studio last year. "The Wikileaks Sony ...Full Article
