Security

How blocking bots created new business opportunities for CrunchBase

Blocking bots is an annoyingly important part of running a public-facing website. CrunchBase leverages Distil to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Three ways to use the cloud to regain control over network endpoints

Promising new cloud-based endpoint security solutions can change how we protect against cyber intrusions

Poor security decisions expose payment terminals to mass fraud

Cryptographic key reuse is rampart in European payment terminals, allowing attackers to compromise them en masse

How fake users are impacting business … and your wallet

Those fraudulent charges most of us have (hopefully) seen and corrected on our credit or debit cards are costing everyone a lot of money.

Wyndham settlement: No fine, but more power to the FTC

The year in security, identify theft and fraud

There’s a lot we can say about cybersecurity, identify theft and fraud in 2015, but we’re going to let our infographic tell the story.

The Juniper VPN backdoor: buggy code with a dose of shady NSA crypto

Or, how one backdoor was actually two

Oracle settles FTC dispute over Java updates

Can collaborative security work?

After Juniper security mess, Cisco searches own gear for backdoors

Looking for malicious modifications of product code