Following the news that a Russian-based website is broadcasting live feeds to breached webcams, CCTV systems, and baby monitors, Guillermo Lafuente, Security Consultant, MWR InfoSecurity writes:
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has today announced the preferred bidder for the Defence Support Group’s (DSG) land business as Babcock.
The Strategic Defence & Security Review White Paper published in October 2010 by the Prime Minister announced the government’s intention to sell the Defence Support Group, in order to reduce MOD’s running costs and focus resources on the front line. Sale also gives DSG access to the investment required to grow and transform the services it provides to the Armed Forces.
Seasoned information security professional brings decades of expertise in incident response,risk management and compliance
LONDON, UK: Lancope, Inc. has appointed long-time information security and risk management professional Andrew Wild as its new chief information security officer (CISO). Wild has spent over 25 years developing effective, customer-driven information security, incident response, compliance and secure networking programs for IT and security organisations including Qualys and EMC. He is also an expert in building and securing cloud and SaaS environments.
London: According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), there are now as many mobile phones as people in the world: about seven billion. Such devices have affected our communication behaviour and accessibility significantly over the past decades. It all started with text messaging, which was soon followed by video calling, and now we have web-based instant messengers and countless other apps. And mobile phones and smartphones can be enormously helpful with regard to security in companies, authorities and organisations, as they enable tokenless two-factor authentication. More details about this are provided in a free white paper published by the authentication expert SecurEnvoy, which is available here for download.
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