Fahmida brings over a decade of IT security news reporting along with ten years of network administration and software development to Decipher. Every security story has a human face, and her goal is to bring those stories to light. As the senior managing editor of Decipher, she will focus on ways security can impact how people live, work, and play. She enjoys working on stories that speak to those outside the security industry, highlighting the intersection of security and other technology areas. Over the years, she has seen enough to make her overzealous about her personal threat-model, but she doesn’t hold it against anyone for having a more relaxed worldview.
Google’s new Shielded VMs help enterprises protect their Google Cloud workloads from attacks against the hardware and firmware.
A particularly vexing challenge in authentication is finding cases where credentials have been compromised or when login attempts are not legitimate. Netflix has open-sourced an internal tool called Trailblazer that uses AWS CloudTrail to help tackle this challenge in a scalable way.
Just because cybercriminals are organized doesn’t mean they are part of organized crime such as the Mafia, an Oxford University researcher said at Black Hat.
TLS 1.3 has been approved, and Facebook has open sourced Fizz, a TLS 1.3 library, to help developers and server operators deploy TLS 1.3 for their mobile apps, services, and appliances such as load balancers
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