Dark Reading Daily -- October 15, 2016

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October 15, 2016

LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY

Thousands Of Secure Websites Dubbed Insecure Due To Cert Error

A certificate revocation exercise gone awry At GlobalSign is browsers to mistakenly treat many sites as insecure. For some users, the problem could take up to four days to resolve.

Happy 30th Birthday CFAA!

Six things we still don't know about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after all this time.

Yahoo Breach May Trigger 'Material Adverse Change' Clause

The Yahoo data breach, which compromised 500 million user accounts, may cause Verizon to renegotiate its $4.8 billion acquisition deal.

Encryption: A Backdoor For One Is A Backdoor For All

We need legislation that allows law enforcement to find criminals and terrorists without eroding our security and privacy.

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HOT TOPICS
Attack Uses Image Steganography For Stealthy Malware Ops On Instagram Endgame details 'Instegogram' and Apple Mac OS X flaw with Instagram images. IoT Default Passwords: Just Don't Do It The rise of the Internet of Things makes the use of default passwords especially perilous. There are better options. Database Breaches: An Alarming Lack Of Preparedness It's no secret that databases are fertile ground for malicious activities. Here's how a seven-step process for monitoring known harbingers of an imminent attack can help reduce the risk. MORE

EDITORS' CHOICE

Dark Reading Radio: The Cyber Skills Shortage

Executive Editor Kelly Jackson Higgins hosts guests Carson Sweet, co-founder and CTO of CloudPassage, which published a shocking study of the security gap in top US undergrad computer science programs, and Rodney Petersen, head of NIST's new National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education. Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 1:00 p.m. EDT/ 10:00 a.m. PDT

Tech Resources

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[IoT] How We Can Build Smarter Cities
Cities are central to our lives. More than half of the global population now lives in and around cities and the percentage - the congestion - will only continue to grow. Governments have to rethink how they do business in ...
Live Demo: Office 365 Provisioning Deep Dive
Since the release of Office 365 five years ago, many of the "easy" Office 365 migrations have been completed. Customers migrating to Office 365 now have much more complex requirements, such as having to work around unique user access and governance challenges that ...

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Partner Perspectives

Access, Trust, And The Rise Of Electronic Personal Assistants

App and device makers are working hard to deliver user control over privacy.

Cybersecurity Economics In Government -- Is Funding The Real Problem?

Government leadership and those chartered with creating budgets could benefit from applying sound value-management practices when considering the cybersecurity budget process.

Cyber-Anything-As-A-Service: Should The Government Just Outsource Everything?

Agencies should be able to select and provision from a variety of cybersecurity services and capabilities to improve their overall effectiveness and efficiency.

FEATURED REPORTS

[Dark Reading] 2016 Security Salary Survey
Cybersecurity spending is at an all-time high, according to many industry estimates, but that rapid increase in spending apparently is not having much impact on the salaries of security professionals. Our report asks the question: Is there more to an ...
[Forrester Report] Digital Experience Technology & Delivery Priorities
Across the board, organizations' investments revolve around implementing personalized initiatives, solving people challenges, and assembling digital experience platforms. In this report, Forrester outlines top 2015 priorities that application development and delivery professionals are aware of.

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Phantom Announces New Product, Partners, and Playbooks

WhiteHat Security Partners with NowSecure For Mobile Application Security Testing Solution

ISAO Standards Organization To Release Initial Voluntary Guidelines For ISAOs

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