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A fifth of all businesses will have deployed IoT-related security by the end of 2017, analyst Gartner thinks.
Dedicated digital security services that are committed to “protecting business initiatives using devices and services in the Internet of Things” will be in place by then, the research and advisory company says.
Gartner made the statement in a press release on its website in relation to a security and risk management summit earlier this month in Mumbai.
“The IoT redefines security,” Ganesh Ramamoorthy, research vice president at Gartner, said in the press release.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Proliferation of cloud computing in the market has been remarkable as benefits gained from cloud based …
The now infamous Ashley Madison website has had a pretty successful run at helping its clientele be disloyal. So perhaps some would view it as poetic justice if the website became one of the most scandalous breaches in history at the hands of one of its own.
At least that is the conclusion of IT security analyst John McAfee, who noted recently “yes, it is true. Ashley Madison was not hacked – the data was stolen by a woman operating on her own who worked for Avid Life Media.”
If true, the fact that the Ashley Madison breach was due to an internal, and not external, threat shouldn’t come as too big a surprise. Many IT security studies this year have pointed to the growing threat of insider data theft and corporate breaches.
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The director of the NSA, Admiral Michael Rogers, just admitted at a Senate hearing that when Internet companies provide copies of encryption keys to law enforcement, the risk of hacks and data theft goes way up.
The government has been pressuring technology companies to provide the encryption keys that it can use to access data from suspected bad actors. The keys allow the government “front door access,” as Rogers has termed it, to secure data on any device, including cell phones and tablets.
Rogers made the statement in answer to a question from Senator Ron Wyden at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday.
Wyden: “As a general matter, is it correct that anytime there are copies of an encryption key — and they exist in multiple places — that also creates more opportunities for malicious actors or foreign hackers to get access to the keys?
Rogers: Again, it depends on the circumstances, but if you want to paint it very broadly like that for a yes and no, then i would probably say yes.”
View the exchange in this video.
Security researchers have been saying for some time that the existence of multiple copies of encryption keys creates huge security vulnerabilities. But instead of heeding the advice and abandoning the idea, Rogers has suggested that tech companies deliver the encryption key copies in multiple pieces that must be reassembled.
From VentureBeat
“The NSA chief Admiral Rogers today confirmed what encryption experts and data scientists have been saying all along: if the government requires companies to provide copies of encryption keys, that will only weaken data protection and open the door for malicious actors and hackers,” said Morgan Reed of the App Association in a note to VentureBeat.
Cybersecurity has taken center stage in the halls of power this week, as Chinese president Xi Jinping is in the U.S. meeting with tech leaders and President Obama.
The Chinese government itself has been linked with various large data hacks on U.S. corporations and on U.S. government agencies. By some estimates, U.S. businesses lose $ 300 billion a year from Chinese intellectual property theft.
One June 2nd, the Senate approved a bill called the USA Freedom Act, meant to reform the government surveillance authorizations in the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act expired at midnight on June 1st.
But the NSA has continued to push for increased latitude to access the data of private citizens, both foreign and domestic.
Managing the daily updates and upgrades needed to keep the website secure demands a highly skilled administration team. A third party website management company provides both managed hosting and security, but the security of the site depends largely …
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Question by : what computer security issues and vulnerabilities are there in cloud computing?
Best answer:
Answer by Leopold
http://www.infowars.com/wozniak-cloud-computing-trend-is-horrendous/
Read the comments section at Infowars and follow the link on their page to the original UK Register article.
Original article – Woz: Cloud computing trend is ‘horrendous’:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/06/wozniak_cloud_will_be_horrendous/
Scribe’s mobe, MacBook pwned after hacker ‘fast-talked Apple support’ – iCloud burst in social engineering attack claim:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/06/icloud_hack_racist_tweets_idevice_wipe/
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