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Threat of the month: Android master key vulnerability
September's threat of the month is the Android master key vulnerability, which can bypass signature verification to gain full system-level access.
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Bring Android to work, safely
Securing Android - or any mobile device - will go beyond standard protection methods, says Gareth Maclachlan COO, AdaptiveMobile.
Executive Insight, Opinion, Security News
Maintaining data security while processing data in the cloud
The scalability, flexibility, easy access, and cost savings of the cloud have made it easier than ever for organizations to store, access, and analyze their customer data. However, regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) place significant demands around how and where data can be accessed and used. Consequently, global organizations that are processing…
Executive Insight, Security News
Winning the cybercrime arms race with AI
The arms race between cybercriminals and cybersecurity professionals continues to escalate. And anyone watching the trajectory of this perpetual game of one-upmanship can see that this is a race towards implementing AI in the service of each side’s goals. For instance, a report by Nokia revealed that AI-powered botnets look for vulnerabilities in Android devices,…
Executive Insight
Does Cybersecurity Automation Offer More Hype than Hope for Battling Hackers?
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are the rage in tech right now and not surprisingly, many cyber companies are beginning to automate an increasing amount of their operations. Some of this is great, particularly when it assists cybersecurity professionals to automate mundane tasks and focus more of their attention on higher level analysis. But so…
Executive Insight
Mobile Malware Risk: Why Prevention is Better than Cure, and What You Can Do About It
It’s getting to the point where we need to add malware to the list of life’s certainties, along with death and taxes. The WannaCry outbreak saw the ransomware spread to more than 200,000 hosts in over 150 countries worldwide, according to Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency. The risk of infection from malicious software is growing all the…
Executive Insight
Future-proofing Comes of Age in IT Security
None of us has a crystal ball, but we can put measures in place to move forward with confidence, taking advantage of new opportunities and addressing new challenges as they emerge. I’m referring to the business imperative of “future-proofing” in our hyper pace of change and disruption. Automobiles are now including Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s…
Executive Insight
Unsupervised anomaly detection giving security pros a leg-up on bad online actors
Cybersecurity attackers in 2017 have it easy. Powerful tools for abusing online services are easy to find online for free. Compromised Android devices provide attackers with a vast reservoir of high-reputation IP addresses for hackers to exploit. A more privacy-conscious public is leveraging privacy-protecting devices and browsers and IP-masking services that can hide an original…
Executive Insight
WikiLeaks, the CIA and Your Phone
WikiLeaks is an organization that has made a name for itself by leaking classified government documents relating to national security, warfare, surveillance programs, and government corruption. WikiLeaks has leaked millions of documents, many of which were designated secret or top secret. Conspicuously absent from WikiLeaks’ efforts are leaks related to Russia or China. However, back…
Executive Insight
IoT App Status: Insecure
In my last post about IoT security, we discussed how lax consumer attitudes about securing devices and wearables could be a contributing factor to their insecurity. In this post, we will examine another angle: securing IoT devices on the application level. This time we’ll go straight to the source and look at what enterprise users…
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