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How to protect yourself from the ‘KRACK’ Wi-Fi attack

18

Oct

2017

Earlier this week, a researcher from the University of Leuven discovered a critical flaw in the WPA2 wireless communication standard that leaves all Wi-Fi-connected devices vulnerable to attacks. Now, we will lay out simple steps users can take to mitigate risk until the Wi-Fi Alliance comes up with a fix. As we wrote yesterday, researcher […]

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Why wait to be breached? Three reasons to secure your data now

13

Oct

2017

“I’m working on it.” “We don’t have room in this year’s budget.” “Something else more important came up.” “Well, we’ve not been breached before…” “The risk of it happening is so small and it’s hard to quantify…” These are some of the most common excuses companies give for delaying their security and compliance efforts. But,given […]

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Kaspersky Lab and the AV Security Hole

12

Oct

2017

It’s unclear what happened in the reported theft of NSA data by Russian spies, but an attacker would need little help to steal if he or she had privileged access to an AV vendor’s network, security experts say. With Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab under the gun for its software reportedly helping Russian cyberspies steal classified US […]

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