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Healthcare mobile device security 101—solving modernization risk factors

Source: “Healthcare mobile device security 101—solving modernization risk factors” by Michael O’Dwyer | December 22, 2016 Many of these devices aren’t designed for business use, which is another cause for concern. According to Sorin Mustaca, CSSLP, Security+, Project+, owner of Sorin Mustaca IT Security Consulting, “Most of these devices are taken from the consumer world […]

Spam & Phishing

Stock spam is back!

After many years, the penny stock spam is back. Hello, info! <name> needs your attention. This is the only stock you need to buy today. Keep on reading to find out why.. <name>(ticker: <tick>) is a mobile games developer that has built some of the most popular games on the planet. The games have been […]

General News

Why most, if not all, “New Generation” endpoint security product are not self-sustained?

Fire Eye, Sentinel One, Crowdstrike, HackerOne, Cylance, Cyphort, Trustlook, Venafi, Clavister, Invincea,  Code42,  just to name a few,  are so called NG Cybersecurity startups. NG comes from “New Generation” or “Next Generation”… (Yeah, just like in StarTrek. 🙂 )   What exactly are these “NG” products and services? There is no single definition that fits […]

Educational

Love statistics? Read here what went wrong with the USA presidential election polls

Source: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/245063/us-election-results-2016-what-went-wrong-with-prediction-models   Original question: First it was Brexit, now the US election. Many model predictions were off by a wide margin, and are there lessons to be learned here? As late as 4 pm PST yesterday (n.b. on 08.11), the betting markets were still favoring Hillary 4 to 1. I take it that the […]

General

DOS challenges with ITsecurity.co.uk

We were faced on ITSecurity.co.uk with a problem which was at first out of our control: “somebody” is creating, probably without knowing, a denial of service on this website. The consequence was that it was “consuming” the accesses to the database behind this WordPress site. The ISP hosting the website limits the accesses to 50K a day. […]