American Banker

Bad Security: The War on Cybercrime Hits a Penetrable Patch

There's no shortage of strategies and rhetoric when it comes to protecting e-banking and other Internet-related businesses from the criminals hatched by the New Economy. There's enough patches, ...
Threat Post

Are You Guilty of These 8 Network-Security Bad Practices?

Tony Lauro, director of Security Technology & Strategy at Akamai, discusses VPNs, RDP, flat networks, BYOD and other network-security bugbears. They say the first step in addressing a serious issue is ...
American Banker

Bad Security Can Be Good for the Payments Industry

When Discount Tire Co. chose to modernize its point of sale system, it wasn't because it feared the U.S. EMV fraud liability shift or it wanted to ease its compliance with the Payment Card Industry ...
Hosted on MSN

Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped

Malicious actor reportedly sought to expose AWS 'security theater' The official Amazon Q extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was compromised to include a ...
Forbes

Let’s Stop Blaming Users For Our Bad Security Design

What scares me most about cybersecurity is that we, the cybersecurity practitioners, keep saying, “Humans are the weakest link.” You hear many versions of this ...
ZDNet

OpenSSL warns of critical security vulnerability with upcoming patch

Everyone depends on OpenSSL. You may not know it, but OpenSSL is what makes it possible to use secure Transport Layer Security (TLS) on Linux, Unix, Windows, and many other operating systems. It's ...
Bleeping Computer

Zyxel warns of bad signature update causing firewall boot loops

Zyxel is warning that a bad security signature update is causing critical errors for USG FLEX or ATP Series firewalls, including putting the device into a boot loop. "We've found an issue affecting a ...
ZDNet

Study: Bad security flaws don't die

LAS VEGAS--A study of Internet security flaws showed that for serious issues, half of vulnerable systems remain unfixed after 30 days. The data--released Wednesday at the Black Hat Briefings security ...
Dark Reading

Big Data And Bad Security

Following my most previous post, I received some questions concerning data security and the adoption of NoSQL -- both as a platform and a service -- because many of the cloud providers harness "big ...
CSOonline

Schneier: Bad Security Products ‘Pose a Threat’

Enterprise security is being compromised by the number of poor security products on the market in a world where hackers have become more organized, delegates at the RSA Security conference were told ...
Wired

Making Science More Open Is Good for Research—but Bad for Security

For decades, scientific knowledge has been firmly shut behind the lock and key of eye-wateringly expensive journal paywalls. But in recent years a tide has been turning against the rigid, antiquated ...