Ransomware is Big Business Now
The risk of ransomware attacks that organizations face is growing exponentially. In 2015, the reported losses from this type of cybercrime totaled $24 million, and last year, that value shot up to $209 million. And that’s just in the US. About half of European companies confirmed to Radware researchers that cyber ransom had been the… Read More
What 2017 will mean for the Internet of Things & Security
It’s a topic I’ve covered a fair amount recently, and it seems to be what everyone is perpetually talking about: The expanded attack surfaces concurrent with advancements in Internet of Things technology. Security for these new devices and tech has been notoriously lacking from the outset. Although organizations are still taking advantage of connected devices,… Read More
Yahoo’s Cyber Problems and Yours
I saw a funny tweet the other day, riffing on the new Star Wars movie, Rogue One. “Find out your Star Wars’ droid name! Just enter your last name and the last 4 digits of your Social Security number!” Or something like that. Very clever. While I would assume there is no earthly way anyone… Read More
Parents & Kids Beware: Back To School Brings Big Identity Risks
It’s back to school time! Yes, it’s an event that kids all over either anticipate or dread to their souls. I was generally in the latter camp when I was that age—as I suspect many are—though not for any tangible reason, as the experience itself was never horrible for me once it began. Still, the… Read More
Hacking an Election
One of the dichotomies in the information security landscape is neatly exhibited in a couple of patchwork systems. Our hodgepodge national data breach notifications laws show the disadvantages of decentralized standards, on the one hand. Conversely, it is that same type of fragmentation that provides a substantial benefit when it comes time for us to… Read More
CyberSecurity – fact or fiction?
Our world seems to be rapidly transforming into the vision Masamune Shirow had when he began the story of Ghost in the Shell in 1989. We’re arriving even faster than the story’s mid-21st century setting—which just so happens to be our near future. The first of an eventual franchise, the original Japanese manga created a world… Read More
Gotta catch ’em all — all security risks, that is
I was asked last week if I could do an article on Pokemon Go, the biggest Pokemon-related phenomenon since the original games took the world by storm in the late 1990’s. It’s been a long time since I donned the trainer hat and went on my journey to catch ‘em all…Pikachu, Charizard…Dagut…Shoe… Takes me back…. Read More
Brexit Won’t Exempt UK From EU Data Regulations
Britain may be eager to extricate itself from the European Union and forge ahead on its own, but as it happens, a stage left Brexit will not exempt firms in the UK from adherence to the impending data security reform, set to take effect across the continent in two years. Yes, in 2018, the General… Read More
360 million passwords show dangerous online landscape
This “Peace” hacker is really making a name for him or herself. A username, that is. First LinkedIn, now MySpace. You remember, MySpace? The social networking equivalent of those cave paintings at Lascaux. Eight years ago online certainly seems like prehistory, and it was that amount of time that the site last reigned supreme, boasting… Read More
Fighting the Real Threat in Cybersecurity
Despite ongoing differences, there is one thing both retailers and the financial sector can agree on: Winter is coming. For cybersecurity, it may even already be here. The exponential increase of data breaches and the like has put every industry at heightened risk over the last few years, and continues to do so. Unlike the… Read More