Security

Do you trust your cloud provider? Addressing these questions will help put you at ease

Illusive Networks uses deception to detect an attacker in your network

Sophisticated attackers can be a challenge to detect. Illusive Networks puts deceptions everywhere to catch them when they move around your network

Cybersecurity skills crisis creating vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity education deficiencies and other factors cause direct damage to companies, a report from Intel Security finds

Millions of Volkswagens can be broken into with a wireless hack

Researchers say the remote key systems for most VWs since 1995 are affected

Snowden and Huang hope to help smartphones go dark

The famed whistleblower and a famous hacker collaborate on making the smartphone less risky for front-line journalists. Of course, if it works, it could obviously help bad guys too

Four free tools for handling Amazon Web Services security incident response

Researchers presented four tools at Black Hat 2016 that they wrote specifically to deal with incident response in AWS.

What will space living look like? NASA picks 6 habitat prototypes

NASA picks Boeing, Bigelow, Lockheed Martin, Orbital, Sierra Nevada and NanoRacks to build prototypes

ForeScout simplifies IoT security

ForeScout can now secure IoT endpoints that were historically unmanageable

Industrial monolith sold hackable thermostats, says expert

Trane's Comfortlink XL850 was vulnerable to hacking, making it possible for burglars to access customers' private data and determine if owners were home or not

Taking stock of Apple’s 2016 acquisitions

Turi is latest Apple acquisition to bring machine learning and AI into Mac and iPhone mix