Why a security team embraces shadow IT

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Network World Security Alert Aug 23, 2016 Why a security team embraces shadow IT A group within Western Union information security team relies on cloud software, including content management, social collaboration and single sign-on tools to let employees to get their work done while protecting corporate data. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • NSA zero days and encryption backdoors need clear disclosure policies • Americans want passwords, not biometrics, survey finds • Sage data breach highlights the risk of the insider threat • US senators want airline IT meltdowns to end • A new algorithm can hide messages in your favorite dance music • Prize competitions for tough IT, high-tech problems all the rage • Much ado about the ransomware scourge • Cisco uncovers security threat in industrial control system Video/Webcast: 1E Automate BIOS to UEFI for Secure Windows 10 In this webinar, 1E Technology Architect Mike Terrill and TrueSec Senior consultant Mikael Nystrom discuss expert tips on migrating to Windows 10 in the most secure way. This can be done using 1E's unique technology to automate the switch from BIOS to UEFI. Read More ▶ NSA zero days and encryption backdoors need clear disclosure policies Disclosure of NSA zero days signals a need for clear policies on when to notify affected vendors. Read More ▶ Americans want passwords, not biometrics, survey finds Fear of leaky organizations storing personal biometric data might be behind the public's preference for passwords over biometry for security. Read More ▶ Sage data breach highlights the risk of the insider threat A suspect in the recent data breach at Sage, a U.K. provider of business software, has been arrested. On Wednesday, police in London detained a company employee. Read More ▶ US senators want airline IT meltdowns to end Two high-profile airline technology meltdowns stranding thousands of travelers in the past couple weeks have prompted two US senators to push carriers to bolster their technology. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.)this week sent a letter to the most recent offenders -- Delta and Southwest -- as well as 11 other airlines to get a better handle on whether or not their information technology systems are reliable and resilient. Read More ▶ A new algorithm can hide messages in your favorite dance music It's long been known that secret messages can be included in music through techniques such as backmasking, but now a Polish researcher has developed an entirely new approach. Read More ▶ Prize competitions for tough IT, high-tech problems all the rage It has been over six years that the government set the America Competes Act which in combination with Challenge.gov has prompted more than 700 public-sector prize competitions that have doled out more than $80 million in prizes. Read More ▶ Much ado about the ransomware scourge "With alarming frequency, ransomware hackers are sneaking into consumer and business computers, encrypting files containing photos, documents and other important data, and then demanding a ransom in exchange for the key needed to decrypt the files. Consumers, businesses, and government agencies are falling prey to these schemes, including hospitals whose servers may contain sensitive patient data. Read More ▶ Cisco uncovers security threat in industrial control system Cisco's security intelligence and research group Talos, said that it had reported a serious vulnerability in Rockwell Automation's industrial control system – the MicroLogix 1400 programmable logic controller (PLC). The Simple Network Management Protocol exploit could let an attacker take complete remote control of the MicroLogix system and modify the device firmware, letting an invader run his own malicious code on the device. 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