Google today announced a series of improvements to Gmail’s security aimed at making the service better at protecting business data.
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Google today announced a series of improvements to Gmail’s security aimed at making the service better at protecting business data.
Cybersecurity is a form of asymmetric warfare. The attackers need to only succeed once; the defenders must succeed constantly. The attackers share weapons and methods continuously; the defenders are often isolated silos of private knowledge that comes only from the attacks against themselves.
A vulnerability affecting the manner in which Sudo parsed tty information could have resulted in the user gaining root privileges and being able to overwrite any file on the filesystem on SELinux-enabled systems.
Symantec has been tracking the activities of a “lone wolf” hacker who has apparently developed a sophisticated piece of malware that he has used to access the systems of at least two major organizations. However, researchers believe the cybercriminal made a relatively small profit and failed to protect his real identity.
US aviation security officials stepped back Tuesday from imposing a ban on carry-on computers on flights coming from Europe, which had been proposed to guard against possible bomb-laden electronics from the Islamic State group.
Einstein is often quoted as having said that insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result. When it comes to cybersecurity, based on that definition, we must all be insane.