Industrial monolith sold hackable thermostats, says expert August 11, 2016 Network World Trane's Comfortlink XL850 thermostat was vulnerable to hacking, making it possible for burglars to access customers' private data. A patch has been released. Read More
Exploit Kits: Infiltrating the Ad Industry with Traditional Tactics August 11, 2016 InfoSec Island Exploit Kits: Infiltrating the Ad Industry with Traditional Tactics Exploit kits are increasingly using the evil twin of an advertisement, a malvertisement, as a gateway to a web browser. Read More
Security still not tough enough in IoT August 9, 2016 IT World Canada Vulnerabilities found in a home smart thermostat underline that security in IoT devices has yet to mature. Read More
Researcher Warns of Holes In Smart Thermostats August 8, 2016 The Security Ledger A researcher from the firm Trustwave warns that Trane ComfortLink smart thermostats suffer from a string of security woes, including hard coded administrator Read More
How to protect your financial apps from getting hacked August 6, 2016 CNBC Hackers are making a fortune stealing customer info on financial apps. It's time to monitor your transactions and change your passwords. Read More
Managed security services veteran Schueler joins Trustwave from IBM to run global security operations August 1, 2016 Vanilla Plus Trustwave has appointed Chris Schueler as senior vice president of Managed Security Services.Schueler will be responsible for Trustwave Managed Security Services, the global network of Trustwave Advanced Security Operations Centers and Trustwave SpiderLabs incident response. Read More
Cybersecurity firm moving to Waterloo, hiring 30 new employees July 27, 2016 CTV News Kitchener A cybersecurity company is moving its Canadian operations from Cambridge to Waterloo, and making space for dozens of new employees as it does so. Read More
Cybersecurity firm Trustwave expands in Waterloo July 26, 2016 The Record Data security firm Trustwave has expanded its Canadian headquarters in Waterloo Region. Read More
Scout tech competitions for new talent July 21, 2016 CSO Online If you are young and love to hack, there are opportunities abounding for you to showcase your talents. This fall the ITA Tech Challenge, a programming and coding skills competition for students at targeted Midwest universities, hosts its 7th annual competition. Read More
Unwitting Accomplices: Employees and vendors—not hackers—pose greatest data breach threat - Utah Business July 20, 2016 Utah Business Often, the phrase “data breach” conjures up images of code-cracking hackers in far-flung locations. In fact, many data breaches are the result of activities much closer to home Read More
These 10 Companies Are the Top Cybersecurity Startup Acquirers July 20, 2016 Fortune Top cybersecurity startup acquiring companies include Cisco, Symantec, Microsoft, IBM and EMC, per Matt Suiche, citing Crunchbase data. Read More
Talent shortage greatest weakness in cybersecurity battle July 11, 2016 Crain’s More than a million jobs in the cybersecurity industry are vacant around the world, according to labor statistics cited in a 2016 report funded by Trustwave, one of the largest cybersecurity firms with over 3 million clients in 96 countries. Read More
7 Steps to Combat the Cybersecurity Skills Shortage July 8, 2016 IT Business Edge The cybersecurity industry is facing a major shortage of expertise, with industry estimates suggesting that more than one million unfilled security jobs exist worldwide. Read More
MSSPs challenged to stay on the cutting edge July 6, 2016 Channelnomics Both technology and services play a role as MSSPs aim to stay ahead of mainstream trends Read More
Making Sense of Today's Cyber-Threat Landscape July 5, 2016 Baseline Coping with Malware-as-a-Service and other emerging security challenges has become a huge problem. Here's a look at some of the latest cyber-security trends. Read More
10 cutting-edge tools that take endpoint security to a new level July 5, 2016 IDG Connect The 10 products we tested in this review go beyond proactive monitoring and endpoint protection and look more closely at threats. They evaluate these threats in a larger ecosystem, combining the best aspects from network intrusion detection and examining the individual process level on each computer. Read More
Business Email Compromise Gets a New Twist June 29, 2016 eWeek No longer are business email compromise scams just about getting organizations to send money; now some such attacks are sending fraudulent CEO emails to deliver malware payloads. Read More
Lenovo patches two high severity flaws in PC support tool June 24, 2016 CSO.com Lenovo has fixed two high severity vulnerabilities in its Lenovo Solution Center support tool that is preinstalled on many laptop and desktop PCs. Read More
Has ransomware become the Chicken Little of the security industry? June 16, 2016 SC Magazine (UK) That ransomware is a problem cannot be doubted. Whether the current level of media coverage, fuelled by vendor press releases, is doing more harm than good is more open to debate.. Read More
Windows zero day devalued as supply and demand takes hold, experts speculate June 13, 2016 SC Magazine Market forces are beginning to have an effect on zero days, evidenced by a new drop in the price of a significant zero-day. Read More