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Monthly Archives: March 2018

ISC West and The Security Industry Association (SIA) dive into this year’s most significant emerging threats and business opportunities, mirroring what’s to come at ISC West 2018 Las Vegas, NV — March 19, 2018 — ISC West, sponsored by the Security Industry Association (SIA), is the largest converged security event of the year, […]

ISC West Reflects the 2018 Security Megatrends™

This entry was posted in Industry Trends ISC West on March 20, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

News outlets are widely reporting about customer data that was exposed due to a misconfigured Amazon Simple Storage Service bucket managed by a Walmart jewelry partner. Watch this two-minute Incident Brief to get the highlights of this story. Reference Resources: Threatpost International Business Times NewData Security

Walmart Partner Leaks Data of 1.3 Million Customers

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Incident Brief on March 16, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

The following flyer, jointly issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, and the FBI, is a good reminder to everyone about how to handle suspicious mail or packages. It is always better to err on the […]

How to Handle Suspicious Mail or Packages

This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Suspicious Mail on March 13, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

By: Graham Joseph Penrose Guest Contributor Facebook was ordered on the 16th February 2018, in an 84 page judgment by a Belgian court, to stop collecting certain data on users or face daily fines of €250,000, with an upper cumulative limit of €100 million. In summary Facebook must stop placing cookies on users’ computers unless: It has informed […]

Belgium Privacy Watchdog Takes 100 Million Exceptions to Facebook’s Illegal ...

This entry was posted in Guest Contributor Opinion Privacy Today's Most Interesting Security News and tagged Facebook Peerlyst on March 7, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

By Kim Crawley Cybersecurity Journalist City Union Bank is a large financial institution based in India, the world’s second most populous country. [Recently], cyber attackers attempted to fraudulently transfer nearly $2 million USD in three SWIFT transactions. I’m vaguely familiar with the international SWIFT money transfer system because I’m a […]

Cyber attackers tried to steal $2 million from City Union ...

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Guest Contributor and tagged India Kim Crawley Peerlyst on March 5, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

Venafi®, the leading provider of machine identity protection announced the results of a study of how retail organizations manage and implement Secure Shell (SSH). Over one hundred IT security professionals from the retail industry participated in the study, which reveals a widespread lack of SSH security controls. According to Venafi’s […]

Infographic: 81 Percent of Retail Organizations Lack Comprehensive Management of ...

This entry was posted in by: Steve Bowcut and tagged SSH Keys Venafi on March 2, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

Brilliance Security Magazine had the pleasure of speaking with Cujo AI’s marketing department. They gave us an overview of their Internet Security Firewall device. This device, or system really, is designed to protect all the various connected devices in your home. It resides between your WiFi router and your devices and protects […]

Cujo AI Internet Security Firewall Product Review

This entry was posted in by: Steve Bowcut Product Review and tagged Cujo AI Firewall Network Security on March 1, 2018 by Steven Bowcut