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Can COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Work Without Opening the Door to Major Security Vulnerabilities and Privacy Concerns?

Several months in to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s starting to look like there are a few different formulas for beating the disease. Countries like Taiwan and Japan used their previous experience and cultural cohesion to flatten the curve without resorting …

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How The 80’s Classic War Games Inspired a Generation of Hackers and Cybersecurity Pros

Almost everyone who works in the information security industry today has seen it. Many of you were inspired to get into the field by one seminal Hollywood film: the 1983 smash hit “War Games.” No lesser personage than “The Dark …

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DEF CON is Not a Conference for the Faint of Heart

Early on the morning of July 16, 2001 Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov left his Las Vegas hotel room with nothing more pressing on his mind than getting a bite to eat before his flight back to Moscow. Instead, he walked …

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Is Penetration Testing a Complete Waste of Time?

Let’s face it, hacking is fun. For a lot of cybersecurity professionals as well as black hat hackers, it’s a kind of game, one that pits intellect and skill against unknown adversaries. So for many people who get into cybersecurity, …

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That Internet-Enabled Device Under the Tree is an Open Door for Cybercriminals

The baby started to fear the dark when he was three. It wasn’t an unusual fear or an unusual age for night terrors, so at first his parents went through the usual motions. Don’t be afraid. There’s nothing out there, …

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Amazon Web Services Creates a New “Secret Region” for the Feds

Amazon announced a major expansion of its Amazon Web Services offerings in late November 2017 with the creation of the new Secret Region for secure cloud services and storage for government agencies. The Secret Region will join the 14 public …

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An Honest Look at Gender Disparity in the STEM Fields

A 2017 study found that women in cyber security accounted for 14 percent of the sector’s workforce in North America, and 11 percent globally; and those numbers haven’t changed since 2013 (Global Information Security Workforce Study). According to the US …

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Has the Recent NSA Compromise Sent Exploits and Hacking Tools Down the Rabbit Hole?

The data started trickling out onto the internet in the summer of 2016 and, at first, no one knew quite what to make of it. A Twitter account, which largely went unnoticed, tweeted out links to anonymous public repositories that …

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Top Ten Tools For Cybersecurity Pros (and Black Hat Hackers)

There is a lot of information security work that happens primarily in the brain, outthinking your opponent and designing conceptually safe and reliable systems. In fact, you might argue that a cybersecurity pro’s most valuable tools are in his head: …

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