Archives: September, 2017

The 12th annual Homeland Security Week conference will be held Oct. 24-27 in Washington, the Homeland Security blog advises. “The conference brings together some of the country’s top subject matter experts in fields related to national security, intelligence, counterterrorism, border security, biometrics, cybersecurity and many more industries.” Here’s more about the conference, which was begun […]

Police have been getting creative in protecting against vehicle terror attacks – even to using garbage trucks as security barriers. That was the thrust this month in a National Public Radio report explaining “why the garbage truck is on the cutting edge of law enforcement.” “Even the Trump tower in Manhattan has been encircled by […]

Drones, it seems, are getting reckless. At least one did, anyway, over New York City. An Army helicopter collided with a drone while the helicopter was patrolling over New York. The helicopter, explains the DefenseTech blog, was part of the security detail for the U.N. General Assembly meeting that started this month. “The collision damaged […]

Evidence that the security of using the Internet is a growing concern comes in a Dark Reading post headed “Americans Rank Criminal Hacking as Their Number One Threat”. Criminal hacking scored above air pollution and disposal of hazardous waste in landfills as concerns of the 740 respondents in an online survey. “It’s pure speculation on […]

People want to be helpful but that, Taylor Armerding on the Naked Security blog notes, can make the human factor a big part of security challenges. Some pertinent factors cited by Armerding: “• Attackers take advantage of the general tendency of people to want to be helpful. “• People are trained to be compliant with […]

Equifax, a consumer credit reporting agency in Atlanta, GA, is just about the worst sort of enterprise to be hacked, from the public’s point of view. But it was. “The more than 143 million consumer credit records hacked from Atlanta-based Equifax during May, June and July,” Security InfoWatch reports, “saw all sorts of personal data […]

So there is Equifax, with a security breach in which, notes the Security magazine blog, “thieves made off with highly sensitive personal information including the Social Security and credit card numbers of at least 143 million people.” “The most troubling aspect of this data breach,” Security tellingly adds, “is that it was likely to have […]

For real digital security, the world needs a mass digital identity system, says John E. Dunn on the Naked Security blog, but, unfortunately, that “remains stuck somewhere between non-existent and a total mess.” “Ask someone to prove their identity today, he writes, “and almost without exception they will fall back on a paper passport, driving […]

We’re not usually into security book reviews, but here’s a reference to one on Government Security News that might be worth this exception. It’s a discussion of Borderless Behavior Analytics – Who’s Inside? What’re They Doing? by a number of contributors, led by overall author Ankur Chadda. One sentence that’s caught our attention is “One […]

We’ve been talking about organizations taking digital security seriously at a time of rising cyber threats. So, just came upon a post on the Security blog about installing a Security Operations Center (SOC) in your organization. They can be from rudimentary to sweeping in size and complexity – but at any level, an SOC is […]