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MoviePass settles with FTC over fraud and data security failures

The Verge

Under the proposed settlement, MoviePass, its parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics, its CEO Mitch Lowe, and chairman Ted Farnsworth are forbidden from falsely representing their business and data security practices to customers. The company offered users one movie ticket a day to any film at any theater for less than $10 a month.

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Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

If you look around, you’ll see we’re not fighting off human replicas as Harrison Ford did in the 1982 film Blade Runner , which was set in the futuristic time period of 2019. As an information security professional, I’m often asked, “What can I do to make my company safe from cyber threats?” Vulnerability scans. Are you with me?

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Cyber Heroes Recognized in SecureWorld 2024 Conference Theme

SecureWorld News

Information Security is no different. A pioneer in cryptography, computer security, and information warfare, she was a relentless guardian of the cyber realm. Her legacy, an enduring beacon of security, continues to shine. Sometimes we hear about these folks; often, they are hidden or even forgotten in time.

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The Hacker Mind: Shattering InfoSec's Glass Ceiling

ForAllSecure

I did get a film degree in college, along with an English degree, but after college, well, knowing how the sausage was made, I wasn’t keen on going to Hollywood. And I was really fortunate to land the security beat right away. What if you are a woman in information security? I went to San Francisco. By accident.

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Life at ForAllSecure: Robert Vamosi, Director of Product Marketing

ForAllSecure

I was a journalist at ZDNet, hired basically to cover the security space, and then ZDNet became CNET. In journalism, you get moved around a lot, but I was fortunate in my entire career at ZDNet and CNET to stay within the security space. While I was doing that, I wrote my first book on IOT security. I started out as a writer.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Threat Modeling

ForAllSecure

Having a common framework around vulnerabilities, around threats , helps us understand the information security landscape better. Literally, how the rebellion fighting the Empire has echoes in how we approach and mitigate information security threats. And he came up to me and he said, I'm not a security person.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. I’m Robert Vamosi and this episode about best practices in information security, and how critical life services, in particular, remain at risk today -- in the middle of a global pandemic. Especially in the world of security standards.