Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans This briefing assesses the potential impact of cyber-attacks, particularly in the context of the asset management industry in Ireland, and provides guidance for fund boards and managers regarding the appropriate procedures and systems that should be in place to adequately The…
Hack Brief: Mobile Manager’s Security Hole Would Let Hackers Wipe Phones
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans REMOTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS for mobile phones are supposed to make it easy for companies to wipe a device clean if it gets lost or stolen. But a vulnerability discovered in a popular remote management system used by thousands of businesses to…
Oops… Popular Password Managers Are Not As Secure As You Think
Just few days ago, we reported about two critical vulnerability in mobile version of the most popular password manager application from a popular Password management company RoboForm, which manages your passwords for different websites. Now, researchers have published a detailed explanation on the security vulnerabilities discovered in five different and…
Diverse communications channels challenge emergency managers, survey shows
Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response As mobile technologies and social media channels continue to penetrate Americans’ communications behaviors, emergency managers are working diligently to ensure emergency communications keep pace. Read More…. View full post on The Cyber Wars
Intl. Assn. of Emergency Managers lands half-million-dollar FEMA award
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response FEMA intends to award a contract worth just under $500,000 to the International Association of Emergency Managers, headquartered in Falls Church, VA, to evaluate the effectiveness of the National Integration Center’s current Private Sector Preparedness Program. The contract will also ask the emergency managers…
Security Manager’s Journal: SOX is out of control
Complying with the act is consuming more and more time and detracting from real security work. View full post on Computerworld Security News View full post on National Cyber Security » Announcements
Security Manager’s Journal: Security concerns for a data center in the cloud
When the company data center moves to various cloud configurations, the provisioning of servers will need to be addressed. View full post on Computerworld Security News View full post on National Cyber Security » Announcements
VeriSign admits it was hacked in 2010 but managers not told
Internet giant VeriSign suffered a series of data breaches in 2010 and even now senior executives are not sure exactly what was compromised, the company has admitted in a filing made to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). News of the previously unmentioned breaches has been uncovered by Reuters from…