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1 day ago Samsung weirdness: Galaxy users freak out over global '1' message from Find My Mobile

Samsung worries Galaxy owners by sending them all same '1' over '1' message through its Find My Mobile app.

1 day ago Attacking the Organism: Financial Services

When it comes to high-value assets, few industries can come close to financial services. It's not just the obvious fact that banks are giant warehouses of money - banks represent critical pieces of infrastructure that entire economies rely upon. 

1 day ago Cloud misconfigurations cost companies nearly $5 trillion

A DivvyCloud report finds 196 data breaches exposed more than 33 billion records due to environments without appropriate security.

1 day ago OnDemand Webinar | DevSecOps in the Cloud Is More Than Just CI/CD

10 hours ago FBI recommends passphrases over password complexity

Longer passwords, even consisting of simpler words or constructs, are better than short passwords with special characters.

10 hours ago Ransomware Attack on EHR Vendor Impacts Home Health Chain

Personal Touch Home Care Explains Effect on Its PatientsA home healthcare company has filed 17 breach reports after a ransomware attack on its cloud-based electronic health records vendor last December, illustrating once again how a vendor breach can have a wide impact.

10 hours ago 5 best practices for IIoT project success

Based on years of pilot projects and proofs-of-concept, the Industrial Internet Consortium has detailed the best-practices organizations can use to ensure successful deployments.

10 hours ago MGM Hotel breach highlights need for sophisticated cloud security

Cybercriminals posted the information of more than 10 million customers on a hacker forum a year after the initial attack on a cloud server.

11 hours ago 92% of Americans would delete an app that sold their personal information

Smartphone users don't want government encryption backdoors and would rather read "terms and conditions" than watch the movie "Cats."