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  • Jobs offered to student kicked out of college for discovering security flaw

    23.01.2013

    Ahmed Al-Khabaz, the student that has been expelled from Dawson College because of an unauthorized intrusion in the college's systems to check whether a flaw he recently discovered in its student web portal was fixed, has not been reinstated.

  • Video: History of the JavaScript security arsenal

    23.01.2013

    In 2006 we had the first JavaScript port scanner. The same year we saw the incarnation of more advanced tools such as AttackAPI, Carnaval and Backframe.

  • New nCircle security appliance cuts vulnerability scan time

    22.01.2013

    nCircle announced the Device Profiler 4000 (DP 4000), a high performance vulnerability scanning appliance designed to support vulnerability scanning requirements including web application and SCAP configuration scanning.

  • Student checks software for critical bug, gets expelled from college

    21.01.2013

    When 20-year-old Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a computer science student at Montreal’s Dawson College, discovered a critical flaw in his college's student web portal, he decided it was his "moral duty" to share the discovery with the institution's leaders so that the bug can be fixed before doing serious harm.

  • How the security threat landscape will evolve this year

    16.01.2013

    Where 2012 was a period of great innovation amongst cybercriminals and hackers – many of whom keenly develop new and hybridized attack vectors that build on a constantly expanding range of extensible code environments seen running on Windows and Apple Mac platforms - 2013 is likely to go down in the darkware IT history books as a period of consolidation.





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The CSO perspective on healthcare security and compliance

Posted on 20 May 2013.  |  Randall Gamby is the CSO of the Medicaid Information Service Center of New York. In this interview he discusses healthcare security and compliance challenges and offers a variety of tips.


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