Updated 4:30 am, Tuesday, May 15, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-4', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 4', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Gemunu Amarasinghe, AP Image 1of/4 CaptionClose Image 1 of 4 Umesh Pandey, sacked editor-in-chief of Bangkok Post newspaper poses for a photo in his former office in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Pandey has been sidelined because he refused to tone down coverage that bluntly criticized the country’s military government. less Umesh Pandey, sacked editor-in-chief of Bangkok Post newspaper poses for a photo in his former office in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Pandey has been sidelined because he refused to tone down ... more … [Read more...] about Editor ousted for criticizing Thailand’s military government
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Inside New York City Cyber Command — a government agency most people know nothing about that’s leading America’s biggest city into the future
caption NYC Cyber Command is quietly protecting New Yorkers — and Americans as a whole. source Shutterstock/littlenystock Most people have never heard of NYC Cyber Command (NYC3), but it is perhaps one of the most important government agencies in America’s biggest city. It is responsible for protecting the city from cyberattacks and other online threats that could have devastating consequences for millions of NYC’s residents. Although the Command is nearly two years old, most New Yorkers have no idea what it is or how it began – until now. NEW YORK – In the fall of 2012, President Barack Obama’s defense secretary, Leon Panetta, arrived to Manhattan’s west side to deliver an unprecedented speech about cyber warfare. Aboard the USS Intrepid, the legendary World War II aircraft carrier now functioning as a museum along the banks of the Hudson River, Panetta … [Read more...] about Inside New York City Cyber Command — a government agency most people know nothing about that’s leading America’s biggest city into the future
IT beware: University finds new 4G security holes
IT has enough to worry about with traditional data breach issues, but now researchers from Purdue University and the University of Iowa have found quite a few new security holes in the popular 4G mobile networks.The potentially worst hole detailed in the study is an authentication synchronization failure attack. The danger? It allows bad guys to read incoming and outgoing messages from an employee, permits "stealthy denial" of selected services and "location of history poisoning," which simply means it can manipulate location ready to give false information to systems using location for identity authentication.This attack works, according to the report, by exploiting the phone's "sequence number sanity check to disrupt its attach procedure. Precisely, the adversary interacts with with the [home subscriber service] through the [mobile management entity] to ensure that the sequence number of the [phone and subscriber service] are out-of-sync. As a result, the authentication … [Read more...] about IT beware: University finds new 4G security holes
12 MySQL/MariaDB Security Best Practices for Linux
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database system and MariaDB (a fork of MySQL) is the world’s fastest growing open source database system. After installing MySQL server, it is insecure in it’s default configuration, and securing it is one of the essential tasks in general database management. Read Also: Learn MySQL/MariaDB for Beginners – Part 1 This will contribute to hardening and boosting of overall Linux server security, as attackers always scan vulnerabilities in any part of a system, and databases have in the past been key target areas. A common example is the brute-forcing of the root password for the MySQL database. In this guide, we will explain useful MySQL/MariaDB security best practice for Linux. 1. Secure MySQL Installation This is the first recommended step after installing MySQL server, towards securing the database server. This script facilitates in improving the security of your MySQL server by asking you to: set a password for the … [Read more...] about 12 MySQL/MariaDB Security Best Practices for Linux
How to use HTTPS to improve web security
HTTP over Transport Layer Security, also know as https, can go a long way to improving the security and privacy on a website. When you see a site's URL with https://, that site exercises good care on its internal security to protect user data and against break-ins Here are several approaches you can take to improve web security in the way you browse, share links, and configure your own sites, using https.Install HTTPS Everywhere in Firefox and Chrome. HTTPS Everywhere from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (in conjunction with the Tor Project) automatically redirects from an insecure to a secure site wherever possible. The browser plug-in is available for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, and Firefox for Android. Safari (and Internet Explorer) aren’t supported because of design choices in the extension architecture in those browsers.Use https whenever you can. If you see a link that starts http:// instead of https:// drop that s in. Most sites that are kept up to date fully support … [Read more...] about How to use HTTPS to improve web security