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Flash Poll: The Hunt For Cyber Talent
Our latest flash poll paints a nuanced picture of how the security skills shortage is playing out in hiring strategies for the SOC.
Indicting Chinese Military Officers Is A Huge Mistake
Blaming soldiers following lawful orders only deflects from the government's responsibility to impose trade sanctions and take more useful measures.
Dissecting Dendroid: An In-Depth Look Inside An Android RAT Kit
Dendroid is full of surprises to assist it in subverting traditional security tactics through company-issued Android phones or BYOD.
Dark Reading Radio: The Real Reason Security Jobs Remain Vacant
Join us Wednesday, May 28, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, to learn why good security staff really are not hard to find, if you know what to look for.
eBay Breach: Is Your Identity Up For Auction?
In a sick twist of events, the roles may just have been reversed on eBay users. It’s their social media identities and data that now have the greatest value in the cyber underground.
Women In Security: We've Still Got A Long Way To Go, Baby
Research shows that the gender gap in IT remains a real problem, but getting girls interested in technology is not the issue.
The Only 2 Things Every Developer Needs To Know About Injection
There’s no simple solution for preventing injection attacks. There are effective strategies that can stop them in their tracks.
Why Security & Profitability Go Hand-In-Hand
It’s never been more critical to put security on the front line to protect your company's bottom line.
Dark Reading To Launch Weekly Internet Radio Show
DR Radio will take place every Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. ET and will feature live chat; first topic will be "A Day in the Life of a Penetration Tester."
6 Tips For Securing Social Media In The Workplace
Empower employees by training them to be aware and secure, and in how to avoid becoming a statistic.
How To Talk About InfoSec To Your Board Of Directors
Today's cybersecurity challenges cannot be met by a compartmentalized IT strategy because every piece of the modern enterprise runs on connectivity and data.
Tech Insight: Free Tools For Offensive Security
A professional penetration tester offers a look at the latest free and open-source tools available for pen testing and offensive tactics.
‘Apple Picking:’ 5 Ways to Lose (& Retrieve) Mac Data
Apple platforms are far from invincible, as these common loss scenarios demonstrate.
Beware Cognitive Bias
Cognitive bias can compromise any profession. But when cognitive bias goes unrecognized in cyber security, far-reaching and serious consequences follow.
Dispelling The Myths Of Cyber Security
Perfect security that focuses on eliminating threats is too expensive and impossible to achieve. Better to think about consequence management.
Infographic: The Story Of A Phish
Are your employees like Troy, blissfully unaware of the dangers of spear phishing?
Into The Breach: The Limits Of Data Security Technology
When it comes to cyberdefense spending, the smart money should bet on people and compliance as much as on machines.
A New Approach to Endpoint Security: Think ‘Positive’
It's time to move away from traditional blacklisting models that define what should be restricted and implicitly allow everything else.
The Cyber Security Market Is Hot! Here’s Why
A dozen years ago the $3.5 billion security market was dominated by five vendors. Last year, VCs bankrolled 230 startups. My, how things have changed!
Why Threat Intelligence Is Like Teenage Sex
Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, and most of the few people who are actually doing it aren't doing it all that well.
NextGen Authentication: There's A Really Smart Phone In Your Future
The mobile device is the latest platform to reinvent access controls, and it's putting enterprise IT back in the driver's seat of security and data protection.
Flash Poll: Your Take On The IT Security Skills Gap
How would you describe the posture of your company’s current security team and hiring practices? Take our new poll.
Defending Against Identity Theft In The Military
Our military troops are twice as likely to be victims of identity theft as the general population. The reason is in the structure of military culture.
Why Perimeter Defenses Are No Longer Enough
When it comes to corporate information security and data protection, the new normal is "due care" in managing day-to-day operations.
How To Avoid Sloppy Authentication
Viewing authentication as a process, not simply as an encryption or algorithm, is the key to defending corporate resources from attacks.
Dark Reading Celebrates Eighth Anniversary
Now the web's largest online info security community, Dark Reading's 2006 charter hasn't changed: to help security pros do their jobs.
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Everything You Need to Know About DNS AttacksIt's important to understand DNS, potential attacks against it, and the tools and techniques required to defend DNS infrastructure. This report answers all the questions you were afraid to ask.
Domain Name Service (DNS) is a critical part of any organization's digital infrastructure, but it's also one of the least understood. DNS is designed to be invisible to business professionals, IT stakeholders, and many security professionals, but DNS's threat surface is large and widely targeted.
Attackers are causing a great deal of damage with an array of attacks such as denial of service, DNS cache poisoning, DNS hijackin, DNS tunneling, and DNS dangling. They are using DNS infrastructure to take control of inbound and outbound communications and preventing users from accessing the applications they are looking for. To stop attacks on DNS, security teams need to shore up the organization's security hygiene around DNS infrastructure, implement controls such as DNSSEC, and monitor DNS traffic
Incident Readiness and Building Response Playbook
In this special report, learn the Xs and Os of any good security incident readiness and response playbook.
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