Monthly Archives: January 2014

Cybersecurity Startup Aorato offers a ‘Behavior Firewall’

“And even a breach such as the one at the NSA could have been detected by Aorato. “Snowden reportedly used colleagues’ passwords to access sensitive docs,” Aorato’s co-founder and CEO, Idan Plotnik, notes to me. “Even if the user activity … Continue reading

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Cybersecurity Vs. Privacy is changing our approach to cybersecurity

                  Ted Schlein of KPCB: “We are in midst of cybersecurity technology being completely re-made –  moving from a signature-based protection environment to a more behavioral anomaly-based protection environment.” Video interview by … Continue reading

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Cisco Systems Report: Shortage of over a million cybersecurity experts globally

A Cisco security report released on January 16th 2014 shows that hacker threats reached “startling levels” last year and that the world is suffering from a shortage of skilled computer defenders. Cracks in defenses and weapons for attacks rose to … Continue reading

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Large botnet traced back to hacked refrigerator

Call it the attack of the zombie refrigerators. Computer security researchers said this week they discovered a large “botnet” which infected Internet-connected home appliances and then delivered more than 750,000 malicious emails. The California security firm Proofpoint, Inc., said hackers … Continue reading

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Cybersecurity is for the C-suite, not just the IT crowd

“Ninety-seven percent of Fortune 500 companies have been hacked,” says Peter W. Singer, “and likely the other 3% have too, they just don’t know it.” Such is the less-than-rosy picture painted by Singer — director of the Center for 21st … Continue reading

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