By Wyatt Carlson at SDXCentral.com…
The cybersecurity shortfall in the workforce remains a critical vulnerability for companies and nations, according to an Intel Security report being issued today.
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Jul 292016
From the White House…
The advent of networked technology has spurred innovation, cultivated knowledge, encouraged free expression, and increased the Nation’s economic prosperity. However, the same infrastructure that enables these benefits is vulnerable to malicious activity, malfunction, human error, and acts of nature, placing the Nation and its people at risk. Cyber incidents are a fact of contemporary life, and significant cyber incidents are occurring with increasing frequency, impacting public and private infrastructure lo
Source: Presidential Policy Directive — United States Cyber Incident Coordination | whitehouse.gov
Jul 082016
We know that people do this, and it is a risk, and now it’s a federal offense.
By Jason Koebler at Motherboard.com…
One of the nation’s most powerful appeals courts ruled Wednesday that sharing passwords can be a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a catch-all “hacking” law that has been widely used to prosecute behavior that bears no resemblance to hacking.
Source: Password Sharing Is a Federal Crime, Appeals Court Rules | Motherboard