In-brief: Security firms Trustwave and IOActive both announced services promising to help aspiring IoT product firms secure their products, more evidence that the Internet of Things is producing secondary markets.
Tag: privacy
Opinion: The Security Case for Software Defined Networking
In-brief: Recent news events underscore the threat that companies face from inadequately protected internal network assets. Cisco’s Scott Harrell argues that the adoption of software-defined networking may provide a powerful new tool to halt hackers ability to move within compromised networks.
Internet of Tattoos? NIST Workshop Plumbs Body Art Algorithms
In-brief: One in five adults in the U.S. sport body art, making tattoos a useful tool for identifying both criminals and their victims. A NIST workshop explored ways to use AI to better identify and catalog tatts.
LastPass Says Hackers Stole Account Data
In-brief: LastPass, the keeper of passwords for millions of security conscious Internet users said on Monday that its own systems were breached by hackers.
SCOTUS FISA Ruling A Tool To Disenfranchise Data Theft Victims?
In-brief: a 2013 ruling by the Supreme Court that limited the right of Amnesty International to sue the government for damages caused by the actions of the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court is being used by Home Depot to question consumers’ right to sue for damages related to a massive theft of credit cards from that company in 2014.
