With end users preparing for another 366 security groundhog days, it’s down to you to make computer security better in 2016. Our writers join in to get the ball rolling…
Naked Security – Sophos
American Enterprise Institute |
Chinese economic espionage: Mixed signals at year's end
American Enterprise Institute As 2015 comes to an end, some three months after the September summit in which the US and China agreed not to “knowingly” conduct cyber-related operations to steal intellectual property – including trade secrets – mixed signals cloud any judgment as to … |
The Northeast blackout of 1965, which occurred 50 years ago today, was one of those “Where were you?” historical events that those who lived through it will never forget.
I was at home in North Attleboro, Mass., and while only eight years old, remember the blackout vividly. About 30 million people living in Ontario, New York, New Jersey and the New England states sparing Maine were plunged into darkness for up to 13 hours.
This clip from NBC News captures both the drama of evening – Cold War fears were in full force – and the primitiveness of reporting under such conditions 50 years ago.
What caused the outage? From Wikipedia:
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Threatpost |
Practical SHA-1 Collision Months, Not Years, Away
Threatpost The most notorious MD5 collision was pulled off by the attackers behind the Flame malware. Like a state-sponsored attack, Flame used a MD5 collision to sign malware as if it were coming from Microsoft, and as a result, would be trusted. The Flame … |