The recent Anthem hack that may have compromised 80 million people’s personal health information reveals just how mainstream data breaches have become in recent years. In response to this rapidly evolving threat landscape, Boards of Directors (BoDs) and executives are now more aware of today’s cyber threats and how they might adversely affect their business. […]… Read More
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Haven’t jumped on the Internet of Things (IoT) because of security concerns? New research from HP Fortify shows there’s reason for caution. HP Fortify researchers reviewed ten IoT-connected home security systems and found all of them are vulnerable to account harvesting via the cloud connection or interface. But that’s not all. They also found all systems could work with weak security passwords, all of them were lacking an account lock-out mechanism, 90 percent didn’t have a two-factor authentication option and 70 percent had problems with systems updates.

This weekend's dunk contest, three-point shootout, and all-star game will be filmed with VR cameras for viewing on Samsung's VR headset. The post The NBA Will Film Its All-Star Game With Virtual-Reality Cameras appeared first on WIRED.

A Serious vulnerability in Facebook has recently been reported that could allow anyone to delete your complete Facebook photo album without having authentication.

Security Researcher Laxman Muthiyah told The Hacker News that the vulnerability actually resides in Facebook Graph API mechanism, which allows "a hacker to delete any photo album on Facebook. Any photo album owned by an user or a