VC firms — those not cleaned out by the dot.bomb crash of 2000-2001 and the Great Recession — will be looking to invest in security companies in forthcoming funds. What with all the data breeches, stolen credit cards, and cyberwar battles across Eastern Europe over the past three years, better tools and systems are needed [...]
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Launched by West Point and formalized in 2001, the annual Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX) pits representatives from the military service academies defending a computer network against a “Red Team” staffed by some of the more devious people from the National Security Agency (NSA) and the military services. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy – the smallest and [...] Security vendor Sipera Systems says it is seeing evidence of G.722 uptake among its enterprise customers. While VP of Marketing Adam Boone didn’t have specific numbers, Sipera’s sales force has lot of “anecdotal” evidence of customers and channels asking about G.722 support. G.722 provides an advantage over other codecs as it provides higher voice quality with [...] VoIP security issues seem to be passe’, judging from the latest lineup updates for DEFCON. Only two sessions have VoIP clearly incorporated into their presentations — it’s a far cry from the days when Phil Zimmermann would pop up to plug Zfone and everyone was explaining their latest ’sploits. First making its guest appearance in Las [...] It’s summer, there’s little going on, so it is the perfect pre-DEFCON promotional show for Kevin Mitnick. I gotta give it to Kevin, he knows how to work the media with the whole “I was a hacker, I was abused by The Man when I was caught, now I’ve gone straight and trying to make a [...] DEFCON and Black Hat founder Jeff Moss now sits on the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Woah!!! Moss (aka “Dark Tangent”) will be one of 16 people providing recommendations and advice through the HSAC to the Secretary of Homeland Security. Quite a leap for the guy who started DEFCON as a big party and parlayed the event [...] |
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