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SMS Security & Privacy Gaps Make It Clear Users Need a Messaging Upgrade

Google Security

People still use and rely on trillions of SMS texts each year to exchange messages with friends, share family photos, and copy two-factor authentication codes to access sensitive data in their bank accounts. Like any forty-year-old technology, SMS is antiquated compared to its modern counterparts.

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Why taking the cybersecurity initiative can win you business

IT Security Guru

Despite this, however, younger people also demonstrate relatively advanced cybersecurity hygiene, such as having alias accounts for email and social media. Here’s an eye-opener: a social experiment in the US found only 1% of technology users read the terms and conditions of a contract. So where does that leave businesses?

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Six existential threats posed by the future of 5G (Part One)

CyberSecurity Insiders

Put simply, the foundational technologies 5G will rely on, namely Network Function Virtualisation and Software Defined Networking, will turn many physical network components into software instead. Estimations from the GSMA predict that by 2025, 5G will account for 21% of total mobile connections , with around 1.8 billion users.

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A Reflection On ForAllSecure's Journey In Bootstrapping Behavior Testing Technology

ForAllSecure

That’s true today because we do not have the right technology. We began our research in a university lab, where a brand new technology was born. Evolving Deep Technology: From Research to Application. We are proud to have won DARPA’s $60M experiment and mathematical evaluation of autonomous technology.

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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

Shared Assessments was created in 2005 by five big banks and the Big Four accounting/consulting firms as a forum for deriving a standardized way to assess the risks of partnering with one other. The founding participants developed assessment regimes and tools, all having to do with measuring and assessing, essentially, third-party risks.

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Securing tomorrow's software: the need for memory safety standards

Google Security

Posted by Alex Rebert, Security Foundations, Ben Laurie, Research, Murali Vijayaraghavan, Research and Alex Richardson, Silicon For decades, memory safety vulnerabilities have been at the center of various security incidents across the industry, eroding trust in technology and costing billions. Standardization is key to this.

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Identity Security Is the Missing Link To Combatting Advanced OT Threats

Security Boulevard

What was once a manageable task of protecting a defined network perimeter has transformed into a complex challenge of securing a vast, interconnected web of cyber-physical systems IT, operational technology (OT), internet-of-things (IoT) devices, and more.

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