Tag: forensics

Study: Security Warnings Ignored Because of Bad Timing

In-brief: Up to 90 percent of users ignore security alerts and other warnings that appear while they’re busy performing other tasks, research from Google and Brigham Young University.

Clues in language often tip hacker’s hand | CSMonitor.com

  In-brief: forensic investigators are using language clues to help identify the source of sophisticated and targeted attacks, like those on Democratic Party committees and the campaign of Hillary Clinton. 

New Stuxnet-Like Industrial Control System Malware Ups The Ante

In-brief: Security firm FireEye is claiming to have discovered proof-of-concept malicious software that targets industrial control systems software that is used to operate critical infrastructure worldwide. 

IBM Research Calls Out Smart Building Risks

In-brief: IBM researchers are warning that building automation systems pose a security risk to companies – and one that few companies take seriously. 

Fed CIO’s Security Sprint Ends with Long To-Do List

In-brief: In a 21-page memorandum posted on the White House website, the Obama Administration identified its top cyber security priorities. Among them: identifying high value information and assets on government networks, responding to cyber incidents in a timely manner and finding and keeping qualified information security staff. Its a list that one leading security expert says sounds worryingly familiar to earlier federal nostrums.