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Black Hat: Incident Recovery, Threat Hunts & Blockchain Woes

Data Breach Today

The Changes Security Leaders Expect to See in Technology and the Threat Landscape Security executives at Black Hat USA 2022 discuss the latest cybersecurity trends from confidential computing and unified threat hunting languages to attack surface management and recovery services, social engineering campaigns and blockchain vulnerabilities.

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On Blockchain Voting

Schneier on Security

Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze : Why is blockchain voting a dumb idea? Abstract: Voters are understandably concerned about election security. Finally, we suggest questions for critically assessing security risks of new voting system proposals.

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Blockchain: The Good, the Bad and the Legal

Data Breach Today

Attorney John Salmon Assesses Cybersecurity Applications for Blockchain As organizations investigate public and private blockchains to secure transactions and facilitate peer-to-peer transactions, they must ensure they know who's responsible, what the system is doing, what the cybersecurity and legal risks are and who's managing it, says attorney John (..)

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ISMG Editors: $3B Crypto Seizure Shows Blockchain's Security

Data Breach Today

Also: New EU Report on Spyware; UK Cybersecurity Technical Director Bids Farewell In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss implications of the seizure of $3.36 billion in stolen bitcoin, whether the EU is complicit in the spread of advanced spyware, and the departure of the U.K.'s

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Cybersecurity Mesh, Decentralized Identity Lead Emerging Security Technology: Gartner

eSecurity Planet

New cybersecurity buzzwords are always in abundance at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit, and the concepts that took center stage this week, like cybersecurity mesh and decentralized identity, seem well suited for new threats that have exploded onto the scene in the last year. What is Cybersecurity Mesh?

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2024 Tech and Cybersecurity Forecast: Navigating New Frontiers in Business

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

2024 Tech and Cybersecurity Forecast: Navigating New Frontiers in Business madhav Thu, 12/21/2023 - 05:15 People always want to comprehend what the future brings. 2024 promises to be a pivotal year, bringing transformative advancements and new challenges in tech and cybersecurity. This necessitates a shift in cybersecurity strategies.

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US Postal Service Files Blockchain Voting Patent

Schneier on Security

The US Postal Service has filed a patent on a blockchain voting method: Abstract: A voting system can use the security of blockchain and the mail to provide a reliable voting system. The system separates voter identification and votes to ensure vote anonymity, and stores votes on a distributed ledger in a blockchain.