Everything’s Insecure, And We Need To Fix It
Electronic warfare, espionage, and hacking are now a reality of everyday life. While most of us go about without giving a second thought to...
Stuxnet Is Only The Tip Of The Iceberg
Stuxnet, the world-famous computer worm that destroyed Iran’s centrifuges at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, was only one part of a much larger operation....
Hacking The Grid Through Air Conditioners
With the months long power outage in Crimea, the world saw how easy it is to leave an entire region with no electricity. Attacks...
IoT Could Be Used To Spy On People
The Internet of Things (IoT) - the myriad of internet-connected devices such as baby monitors, smart TVs, home security systems, and even smart dolls...
Obama wants YOU for US CyberCorps!
President Barack Obama’s administration released the presidential Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) this week. CNAP is an attempt to fix the broken federal information...
Hackers Made Off With Massive FBI, DHS Employee Database
A rogue hacker group managed to penetrate the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secure network and make off with a database containing the...
Your (Not So) Private Browsing With Microsoft Edge
This last summer Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was superseded by the shiny and new Microsoft Edge browser, and everyone rejoiced. The aging IE, fraught with...
Israel: An Exemplar Of Cyber Development For The World Economic Forum
During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led discussions on the subject of cyber security, and...
6 Things Keeping Cybersecurity Experts Awake At Night
Last month, some of the world’s foremost experts on cybersecurity gathered in Lille, France for the International Forum on Cybersecurity, as well as politicians,...
Don’t Panic: The Web Is Not ‘Going Dark’
More widespread use of encryption in software will not make the internet “go dark,” nor will it hamper law enforcement investigations into crime and...
The NSA To Undergo Major Reorganisation For The 21st Century
The US National Security Agency (NSA) is about to undergo a major reorganisation, according to past and current agency officials. The world’s largest electronic...
What Data Do Organizations Encrypt And Why?
Ilan Segelman, VP Sales & Business Development at Power communications and Operation Manager at Sophos Israel
We at Sophos believe that there is no such...
Snowden Casts Doubt On ISIS Encryption Video
ISIS likes to tout itself as extremely technologically proficient. The organisation releases apps, instructions on online behaviour, and has recently released a video showing...
How Are Cyber Companies Really Doing In The Startup Nation?
Israel’s cyber sector is still dominated by startups, despite “growing at a breakneck pace,” according to the folks over at the Defensive Cyber Operations...
DHS $6 Billion Firewall Is Full Of Holes
A Department of Homeland Security firewall, meant to detect and prevent hacking attempts by nation-states against the US government, is apparently not very good...
ISIS Vows To Avenge Top Hacker’s Death
Last August, a drone strike eliminated Junaid Hussain, a man who was the top hacker in the ranks of ISIS. Now, the terror group...
Backdoor-riddled Devices Sold To US Army, White House
AMX, a supplier of audio-visual and building control equipment among whose clients you’ll find the US Army and the White House, built in a...
Cyber Warfare Is Not Yet Here
Sci-fi films of the past predicted that by this time the world would be inundated with hackers crashing whole financial systems, power grid, and...
Princeton: IoT Devices’ Security Flawed
The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing, soon to be a permanent feature of our lives, but there are some things about it which...
All You Wanted to Know About SAP HANA Platform
Tech Giant SAP has recently declared the launch of a new accelerator in collaboration with Sela in the field of Big Data and the...
Google Official: ISIS Should Be Kicked Off The Internet
Jared Cohen, director at Google Ideas and an advisor to the heads of parent company Alphabet Google, said ISIS should be kicked off the...
Anonymous To Fix Flint Water Crisis
Flint, Michigan has had a fraught history. In the past the city was a major manufacturing centre of the American automotive industry, but the...
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A New Airborne Detection System Could Expand Underwater Tracking Capabilities
Detecting objects beneath the ocean surface remains one of the most difficult challenges in maritime sensing. Water limits the effectiveness of many conventional detection...
