security of computers

Gary Rosenzweig, founder of MacMost, will talk about computer security at the next meeting of MacChUG, the Chico Apple Users Group. The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. today at the Chico Veterans Hall, 551 Rio Lindo Ave. Rosenzweig is the founder, producer and host of MacMost, a website that offers ...

Bahrain cyber security firm CTM360 has been accepted as a full member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), an international association of computer security incident response teams. FIRST currently consists of 414 teams worldwide, enabling security teams to closely ...

On a regular basis we hear news stories about computer information and data being compromised by outside forces. Criminals try to obtain personal financial information such as: name, address, social security number, date of birth and account number. Using this information criminals can make purchases, ...

Computer security is being updated at Fayette County's public schools. Jim Farmer, the system's chief technology officer, reported to the Board of Education on April 9 that software to thwart malware, ransomware and viruses has already been installed on approximately 9,000 of 15,000 servers, desktops ...

Protecting your privacy and securing your home computers is easier than you might imagine. Better security isn't just for big organizations or the uber-nerds – everyone, regardless of their computer literacy, can take simple steps to better secure their data and their personal devices. Small steps really can ...

Two of the most common questions I'm asked are, "Is having a computer security certification is helpful in getting a job or starting a career in computer security?, and if so, "Which certification should someone get?." The answer to the first question is a definite yes. Getting a certification, while not a cumulative ...

Date: May 10, 2018 at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET. Information Technology administrator? Communicating the value of computer security best practices to your end users isn't always easy. To help end users better understand the value of safety over convenience, check out our webinar packed with information on password ...

Corero also received a follow-on order from a government customer to expand its DDoS mitigation capacity. Corero Network Security PLC (LON:CNS) said it has secured several new orders for its cybersecurity technologies to the tune of US$1.2mln. The AIM-listed cybersecurity firm said the orders included ...

Nowadays is hard to give strong definitions on what are the differences between Security Operation Centers (SOC), Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT) and Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT) since they are widely used in many organisations accomplishing very closed and ...

Pune, India -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/22/2018 -- Computer security software or cybersecurity software is any computer program designed to enhance information security. Security software are gaining more traction among large enterprises because they help protect business-critical information from unauthorized access and data ...

Justin Shafer was looking at up to 15 years in prison for allegedly harassing an FBI agent and federal judge with emails and social media posts. But on Thursday he walked out of the federal courthouse in Dallas, smiling and relieved that he is a free man, no longer facing the threat of prosecution.

In the 1970s, when computer security research was beginning, most developers responded to vulnerability reports by fixing the problem reported. There was no assumption that the problem was an instance of a recurring issue and no attempt to research or define that issue and then resolve it. We used to ...

Computer security expert Lance Hawk of Allentown is the subject of this week's newsmaker. (Contributed photo/Anne Hawk). Daniel Patrick SheehanContact ReporterOf The Morning Call. Lance Hawk has more than 30 years of professional experience in computer security, bringing his expertise to corporations and ...

Computer Security Market Report Deliver an in-depth assessment of the Computer Security including enabling Technologies, key trends, Market drivers, Challenges, Standardization, regulatory landscape, deployment models, opportunities, future roadmap, value chain. The report also presents forecasts ...

Neuroscience major junior Molly Brady (pictured left) and biology major junior Dana Cibulski (pictured right) at the Computing and Information Technology desk in Milne Library. Due to concerns over phishing, CIT has worked to create a secure cyber environment for the college. (W.J. Jiang/STaff ...

Humans are no longer sufficient to police cyber attackers, experts tell Axios, and machines must move in to find them. Quick take: "High walls and bigger moats" are obsolete in computer security, says Mark Testoni, CEO of NS2, the U.S. arm of German software giant SAP. Instead, people, governments and organizations ...

But Craig Young, computer security researcher for Tripwire's Vulnerability and Exposures Research Team, dismissed RedDrop as "a very amateur trial run" that would require victims to install malicious apps and grant plenty of permission requests for it to steal data. "There is nothing new about this malware ...

Ransomware attacks at two children's aid societies have spurred the Ontario government to tighten cybersecurity around a new, $123-million provincial database for children in care. One of the agencies — the Children's Aid Society of Oxford County — paid a $5,000 ransom to regain access to their ...

Maybe you've heard it before: “Security is a myth.” It's become a common refrain after a never-ending string of high-profile security breaches. If Fortune 500 companies with million dollar security budgets can't lock things down, how can you? And there's truth to this: perfect security is a myth. No matter what ...

Much of our computer security defenses are already completely automated. Our operating systems are more securely configured out of the box, from firmware startup to the operating system running apps in secure hardware-enforced virtual boundaries, than ever before. If left alone in their default state, our ...

Twitter has banned ads on its service from Russian security software maker Kaspersky Lab, after the U.S. government prohibited agencies from using its products because of alleged ties to the Russian government. The ban, confirmed by Twitter to Reuters, marks an escalation of the backlash against ...

The quickest way to describe a data-driven computer security defense is to compare it to the insurance industry. Every insurance product makes a financial bet that what people are paying to the insurance company will be more than the resulting payouts the insurance company will make for the covered ...

JAMMU: Yogananda College of Engineering and Technology (YCET) on Friday organised a guest lecture on 'Computer Security and Window's Forensics' for Computer and IT Engineering students, here. The lecture was delivered by Niraj Dubey, Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering, Government ...

Law360 (February 23, 2018, 12:05 PM EST) -- The Federal Trade Commission sued a California man and his defunct tech companies in federal court on Thursday, accusing them of facilitating a scheme to deceive older consumers into paying for phony computer protection that bilked them out of millions of dollars and stole ...

Ransomware attacks at two children's aid societies have spurred the Ontario government to tighten cybersecurity around a new, $123-million provincial database for children in care. One of the agencies — the Children's Aid Society of Oxford County — paid a $5,000 ransom to regain access to their sensitive data after the ...