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Why You Should Be Worried About the Dark Side of Synthetic Speech
Hackers are growing more sophisticated in their attempts to compromise voice technologies.
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Report: DDoS Attacks Have Slowed, But Increased in Size
DDoS Attacks are nothing new. In fact, hackers have been maliciously flooding servers since 1999. But in October 2016, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks suddenly became far more relevant to the everyday web surfer, after Dyn — one of the world’s leading DNS providers — suffered the largest DDoS attack in history. The
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How to Lose Your Business in 10 Days
Code Spaces thought it was prepared for a disaster. The code hosting provider had backups. It used the cloud. It had successfully operated for seven years. But one day, in the space of about 12 hours, the company was completely and permanently dismantled.
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What Hackers Know About Your Security That You Don’t
Is your data safe from hackers? That’s the hundred billion dollar question. We see breaches happening left and right on the news, yet the IT security industry is expected to boom to $120 billion dollars this year. You would think with all that money getting thrown around that we would
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How They Hack Your Website: The Ultimate, Updated Overview of Common Techniques
Website hacking is nothing new, but the techniques of a hacker are in constant flux. In an attempt to keep up with this ever-evolving digital dark art, the US government alone spent a whopping $14 billion on cyber security in 2016 — a year that will go down in hacking
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Yes, Even Your Website Will Be Attacked
Neill Feather is a frustrated programmer at heart. He still writes macros in Microsoft Excel to flex that muscle in his brain, which he first started building in junior high school, he said.
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Defending Yourself from Cyberattacks
When it comes to website security, what’s the biggest challenge facing businesses today? If you think most security problems stem from programming issues, you need to look a little deeper, said Peter Pröll, security expert for the TYPO3 Association.
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Hackers Target Microsoft in Multiple Attacks
Score one — or rather, score hundreds of millions — for the bad guys this week. Hackers managed to infect what is likely one billion or more online users in two separate attacks, both of which used a Microsoft product to lure in unsuspecting victims.
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Brace Yourselves for More Enterprise Social Network Attacks
Enterprise Social Network (ESN) providers should be on alert in light of Slack's reported security breach last week. ESNs are particularly vulnerable to database system hacks because their information is gold to corporate hackers, industry analysts told CMSWire.
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Who Is Your Weakest Link? The Risks of Cloud Partners
Think your organization is safe if it minds its own security? Think again. You’ve also got to worry about security at all those companies you associate with, from suppliers and consulting firms to PR agencies, systems integrators, event planners and even heating and cooling vendors.
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Discussion Point: Security Experts Respond to the State of the Union Address
Cybersecurity wasn't even the stuff of dreams when George Washington delivered the first State of the Union message to Congress on Jan. 8, 1790. But fast forward to 2015 and there it was, playing a prominent role in Barack Obama's annual address to the nation.
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IBM Security: Beware the Social Login Hacker
We've all seen it -- "log in via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc." Makes things easier.
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FBI Warns Businesses to Brace for Foreign Hacker Attacks
The threat of International electronic terrorism appears to be rising, following two separate reports of hacker attacks on US business and government interests.
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Discussion Point: Is the Cloud Really Secure?
Cloud computing is on the rise, but with it comes new fears about data security. Cybercriminals are always looking for an in, so cloud services constantly need to stay ahead of potential vulnerabilities. Nothing has driven that point home more than a flurry of recent high-profile breaches.
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