In-brief: A survey of web and mobile applications by the firm Veracode finds that governments are the most likely to use insecure software, as measured against the OWASP (Open of Web Application Security Project) Top 10.
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Report finds Hackers Delving Deep Into Compromised Networks
In brief: A report studying compromised networks from the firm Vectra finds a big jump in “lateral movement,” as hackers delve deeper into hacked organizations.
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.
On the Internet of Things, Failure is a Virtue
In-brief: Cisco’s Marc Blackmer argues that fail fast, fail often is as relevant to securing the IoT as it is to developing new IoT products.
The Abject Failure of Federal InfoSec
In-brief: OPM and IRS are just the latest incidents to expose the dire state of federal information security practice. The question is: why?
