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There’s a lot of enterprise-grade secure browsers out there, but are they ready for prime time?

David Strom — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:00:35 +0000

Securing an entire collection of web browsers across an enterprise has been a sleeper product category for many years, but it’s now heating up. That’s thanks to better management tools and an increasing awareness by information technology managers of the need to harden passwords and prevent phishing attacks. But will these things bring new life to […]

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FBI issues warnings about explicit deepfake images

David Strom — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 17:43:17 +0000

Deepfake still photos and videos have plagued the online world for several years, but now the stakes are getting higher. The problem is deepening as the quality of the fakes gets better and the ease of creating them gets easier, especially since AI technology can be used to gather and modify both audio and video […]

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New ways to reduce the chances of ransomware attacks

David Strom — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:29:57 +0000

Just this past week, ransom attacks have hit a major Spanish bank, a Canadian university and a legal software-as-a-service platform. So it’s good timing that two reports released in the past month from IBM Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. are providing guides to how to combat the terrible tide. Although the raw number of ransom-based […]

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Freed from the corporate data center, cloud-based GPUs come of age

David Strom — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:57:43 +0000

The time has come for running graphic processing unit chips in the cloud. Virtual machines running GPUs are increasingly being offered by the cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services Inc.’s EC2 P4d, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure N series and Google LLC’s Compute Engine. Some of these instances are very high-powered, designed for the most demanding applications, including […]

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Cloud conundrum: The changing balance of microservices and monolithic applications

David Strom — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:43:26 +0000

Around the turn of the century, there was really just one choice for building business applications: using a server that you owned and that sat in your own data center. Then came the cloud and with it the debate over whether an app would be better run in the cloud or on-premises. As Wikibon Chief […]

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Fixing email security: It’s still a rocky road ahead

David Strom — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:38:05 +0000

The foundational protocols for making email more secure and less of a threat have been in place for almost a decade, yet they remain mostly unused, poorly implemented and largely ineffective. A recent report from Sendlayer shows just how much of a problem that is. We all know that email is terribly insecure. If we get distracted, […]

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US to launch Moonlighter cybersecurity satellite this week

David Strom — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:39:32 +0000

If all goes well, outer space will have its first capture-the-flag hacking competition later this summer. In early June, a SpaceX Falcon rocket sent into Earth orbit the Moonlighter satellite. It’s the world’s first and only hacking sandbox in space, designed and launched to advance the understanding of cybersecurity for space systems. It was built […]

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How the Mirai botnet continues to threaten business networks

David Strom — Tue, 30 May 2023 23:23:39 +0000

One of the most powerful pieces of malware began with the efforts of three American teens who were motivated by playing “Minecraft” in 2014. Called Mirai, it would go on to crash Germany’s largest internet provider, knock Dyn’s Domain Name System servers offline and disrupt all of Liberia’s internet connections. “Minecraft” gaming server operators back […]

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With Project Fort Zero, Dell expands its zero-trust security offerings

David Strom — Tue, 23 May 2023 17:00:41 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc. announced today its Project Fort Zero as the latest in a series of its zero-trust networking services and products. The project is a combination of a public/private partnership with the U.S. government and the Maryland Innovation Security Institute’s Dreamport facility along with dozens of supporting companies. Dell will deliver a finished product within the […]

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New Microsoft identity and security products announced at its Build conference

David Strom — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:00:31 +0000

Microsoft today added a collection of new security products to its Azure cloud services, bringing it at feature parity with a number of security providers in the identity and access management market, and providing a new series of secure Azure virtual machine instances. The collection, announced at the company’s Build conference for developers in Seattle […]

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‘Infostealer’ malware evolves to become even more lethal

David Strom — Thu, 18 May 2023 19:39:10 +0000

The class of malware called infostealers continues to evolve into a more lethal threat. These threats are software that can steal sensitive data from a victim’s computer, typically login details, browser cookies, saved credit cards and other financial information. SiliconANGLE has covered their role in the past in various ransomware and other attacks, including Stealc […]

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We need more breach transparency, but a lot of obstacles are in the way

David Strom — Tue, 16 May 2023 21:35:35 +0000

The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Center last week posted a joint blog with the nation’s regulatory commissioner’s office about the need for better cybersecurity breach transparency. They’re concerned about the unreported incidents, in particular ransomware cases, which are getting more dangerous, more prevalent and more costly. The situation creates a vicious cycle: “If attacks are covered up, the criminals […]

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AI-based chatbots can help improve customer support – if they’re done right

David Strom — Tue, 16 May 2023 18:37:27 +0000

Most of us have been interacting with customer support agents for years. It can be a frustrating experience: Oftentimes the agent knows less than we do about their product or service, calls are dropped or transferred to other agents. About two years ago, I had such a bad experience with AT&T Inc.’s customer support that […]

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As cloud computing gets more complex, so does protecting it. Here’s what companies need to do

David Strom — Fri, 12 May 2023 16:56:20 +0000

Whether companies are repatriating their cloud workloads back on-premises or to colocated servers, they still need to protect them, and the market for that protection is suddenly undergoing some major changes. Until the past year or so, cloud-native application protection platforms, or CNAPPs for short, were all the rage. These covered four distinct security product lines […]

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The chief trust officer was once the next hot job on executive row. Not anymore.

David Strom — Thu, 11 May 2023 19:23:44 +0000

We seem to be in a trust deficit these days, as breaches – especially among security tech companies – continue unabated. Ransomware attacks now have spread to data hostage events. The shady corner of the internet known as the dark web is getting larger and darker, with enormous tranches of new private data readily for […]

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Boards of directors need to be more cyber-aware. That gets complicated.

David Strom — Tue, 09 May 2023 13:30:21 +0000

The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed some new guidelines last year to promote better cybersecurity governance among public companies, and one of them tries to track the cybersecurity expertise of the boards of directors of these companies. Judging from a new study conducted by MIT Sloan cybersecurity researchers and recently published in the Harvard Business Review, it might […]

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Magecart malware strikes again, and again, at e-commerce websites

David Strom — Mon, 08 May 2023 19:34:22 +0000

The shopping cart malware known as Magecart is still one of the most popular tools in the attacker’s toolkit — and despite efforts to mitigate and eradicate its presence, it’s the unwanted gift that just keeps on giving. It was first detected in 2018 when it was behind the notable Ticketmaster UK exploit and is still […]

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Where is our national cybersecurity strategy? All over the place

David Strom — Fri, 05 May 2023 15:00:37 +0000

Earlier this year, the Biden White House released its National Cybersecurity Strategy policy paper. Although it has some very positive goals, such as encouraging longer-term investments in cybersecurity, it falls short in several key areas. And compared with what is happening in Europe, once again the U.S. is falling behind and failing to get the […]

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Is it time to deploy passkeys across the enterprise? Here’s what you need to know

David Strom — Tue, 02 May 2023 20:30:10 +0000

It’s a great time to think more about passkeys, and not just because this Thursday is another World Password Day. Let’s look at where those 2022 passkey plans stand, and what companies will have to do to deploy them across their enterprises. Interest in the technology, also referred to as passwordless — a bit of a […]

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At RSA Conference, tales of real-world cyberattacks and warnings of fearsome new threats

David Strom — Mon, 01 May 2023 21:18:14 +0000

The challenges of securing organizations haven’t changed much in the past year, and that means there’s still a lot more that needs to be done — especially as generative artificial intelligence and chatbots will require new tactics to fight attackers. That’s according to two panels that presented at last week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. Among […]

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Bruce Schneier’s plan to reinvent democracy

David Strom — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:23:39 +0000

I have a confession to make: I am a complete Bruce Schneier fanboy. I have been following the cryptographer, Harvard lecturer and privacy specialist for many years, and was delighted to meet him face-to-face at last week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, where he gave one of a keynote (registration required) on how to reinvent […]

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What Does it Take to be Truly Multiplatform These Days?

David Strom — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:36:06 +0000

I have been using Pandora’s online stream music service off and on for several years. What got me more interested lately was it being one of the many services on my Roku video streaming box, which my wife and I use mostly for watching movies from Netflix’s "watch instantly" queue. As I investigated the service […]

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The New Browser Wars: Flash vs. Swipe

David Strom — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:49:51 +0000

Pardon me for adding yet another iPad analysis (certainly, when a computer product launch makes it into Doonesbury, we have crossed a new threshold of hype), but one thing actually missing from the copious words and videos on yesterday’s event at Moscone was the simple fact that we have a new browser war on our […]

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Which Haiti-Quake Charities are Getting It Done?

David Strom — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:30:05 +0000

We all know by now about the horrific Haiti quake and how it has decimated that already impoverished country’s infrastructure last week. I have been spending time looking into how our own charitable infrastructure is holding up in getting funds and manpower to the relief effort. So far, the efforts have been mixed, to say […]

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Web Informant: Automated Video Image Analysis will be the Next Big Breakthrough

David Strom — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:30:01 +0000

Remember Chance the Gardener character in Being There? "I like to watch tv" was his famous line. The problem with most business videos is that we produce a lot of unwatchable footage, especially those taken by security camera systems. And there aren’t any Chances around that want to watch them, either. The trouble is that […]

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Developing the Next Gen of iPhone Apps Programmers

David Strom — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:03:40 +0000

I had an opportunity to audit a computer science class this week at Washington University, a class that was teaching students how to write iPhone apps. It was their final presentation, and I got to see a dozen apps that were very impressive. As I was watching the kids present, I was thinking back to […]

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