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Microsegmentation – Secure Your Internal Network

CTOvision

The problem is that threat actors are able to get through the castle gates (firewalls) and once in, are able to evade the castle guards (IPS). Since 2000, secure networks have been built by segmenting traffic at the switch port level from server to server, radically limiting east-west traffic. Microsegmentation will fix this.

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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. Again, a raid as harmful as that commences with what appears to be garden-variety deceptive advertising trickery.

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Remote code execution is possible by exploiting flaws in Vxworks

Network World

Eleven zero-day vulnerabilities in WindRiver’s VxWorks, a real-time operating system in use across an advertised 2 billion connected devices have been discovered by network security vendor Armis. What is edge computing and how it’s changing the network. Blockchain, service-centric networking key to IoT success.

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Alexa, is this a scam? Amazon alleges tech support sites used fake apps to trick new users into paying to fix bogus bugs

GeekWire

. “Among other things, this extension falsely purports to provide a firewall. In the firewall section of the extension, an animation shows that the firewall is off. The animation then shows a loading power button that turns green and then states the firewall is on. The extension does not create a firewall.”

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RiskIQ Accelerates Momentum Across Entire External Threat Management Solution Set in First Half of 2016

CTOvision

What the press release does not capture well enough is that RiskIQ is the only firm we have seen that can provide network defenders with true insights into how adversaries are using infrastructure to attack. Editor's note: We saw this news about RiskIQ and had to share. They are like the SIEM of the Internet and all mobile devices.

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Shopping Mall CIOs Try Out Facial Recognition Software

The Accidental Successful CIO

You’d want to know that all of your servers and networking gear was secure. The result of this is that retailers were able to determine the income levels of their shoppers and how best to target their advertising. When you are the CIO, you deal with things like servers, networks, firewalls and the like.

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How Big Data is Helping Improve Security

CTOvision

Cyber attackers always seem one step ahead of their targets, meaning that even if organizations use firewalls and anti-malware programs, hackers can still find ways around the defenses. This type of real time analysis can extend to networks, cloud services, personal devices, and more.

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