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Homeland Security advances DHS cyber reorganization bill

09

Jun

2016

The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would restructure how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) protects critical infrastructure from digital threats. “This bill removes bureaucratic barriers at DHS so it can more effectively carry out the authorities passed by Congress in the last two years,” Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) said […]

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Unique security challenges facing healthcare IT

13

May

2016

While many security issues translate across multiple industries, there are cases where specific industries have unique challenges. What is serious to the automotive industry might not be as serious to the publishing field, for example. There are few places where this is this more evident than the healthcare industry, which has seen ransomware attacks on […]

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Critical bug in libotr could open users of ChatSecure, Adium, Pidgin to compromise

11

Mar

2016

A vulnerability in “libotr,” the C code implementation of the Off-the-Record (OTR) protocol that is used in many secure instant messengers such as ChatSecure, Pidgin, Adium and Kopete, could be exploited by attackers to crash an app using libotr or execute remote code on the user’s machine. “An attacker could execute his own code inside […]

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