Category: News

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Administrators Continue to Fail in Securing Databases by Using Proper Configs Security experts at BinaryEdge have analyzed how developers and system administrators configured different technologies and have found…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Data-Driven Threat Intelligence: Metrics on Indicator Dissemination and Sharing For the past 18 months, Niddel has been collecting threat intelligence indicator data from multiple sources in order to…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Confide brings ephemeral messaging to desktop, with Mac and Windows clients Like the mobile version, Confide for desktop allows users to send and receive encrypted messages, documents, and…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Spotting an Attacker’s “Tell” through Data Analysis A tell in poker is a change in a player’s behavior or demeanor that is claimed by some to give clues…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Demystifying Threat Intelligence For Forrester, threat intelligence is not a single product or service, but a framework constructed around high-quality information sources and skilled analysts. In Five Steps…

[From the desk of Paul Davis – his opinions and no-one else’s] Apart from the reporter’s opinions 😉 So onto the news: Linux Foundation’s security checklist can help sysadmins harden workstations Konstantin Ryabitsev, the Foundation’s director of collaborative IT services, published the security checklist that the organization uses to harden…