Security

Today’s security consensus is that password-based authentication and access is insecure, and that some form of two- or multi-factor authentication is necessary. The simplest and easiest second factor is an…

Job-related information belonging to hundreds of thousands of individuals was exposed online after Capgemini inadvertently made public a database of Michael Page, a brand of UK-based global recruitment company PageGroup.…

Cisco prompted a password reset for the user accounts on its Cisco Professional Careers mobile website after a security researcher discovered a vulnerability in the portal. The networking giant decided…

Synopsys said that it would acquire Cigital, along with Cigital spin-off Codiscope. Codiscope  has “transformed the tools and intellectual property created by Cigital into a suite of accessible and streamlined tools…

Google has announced its plans to make the Certificate Transparency policy in Chrome mandatory starting in October 2017. Announced last week, the move will affect publicly trusted website certificates issued…

McAfee Prepares for Independence from Intel with Product Announcements and New Branding. Following recent product annoucements from Sophos and Symantec, Intel Security is the latest of the 1st generation endpoint security…

Microsoft this week announced boosted customer security with a new feature in Office 2013: the ability to block risky macros. The new functionality is Microsoft’s response to the growing trend…

Microsoft India launched its first full-scale Cybersecurity Engagement Center (CSEC) in the country recently in Delhi. This first-of-its-kind center in India will bring together Microsoft capabilities to foster deeper cybersecurity…