Healthcare industry leaving neck exposed to cyber attacks
In a recent report that’s no doubt of great interest to the bloodsucking undead, Australia’s recent data breach—its largest ever—exposed around 1.3 million records, affecting 550,000 people who donated blood to the Red Cross. An anonymous source discovered that a 1.74 GB file containing this information had been posted to a public site, and alerted… Read More
Your guide to the seven types of malicious hackers
Originally published at: InfoWorld.Com Copyright: InfoWorld When I learned over the weekend that hackers had planted malware on a Nasdaq Web server, I wasn’t exactly surprised. It’s the rare company that isn’t owned by hackers. Even the most well-defended organization will likely find itself under attack by outsiders. Whether you’re attacked today or tomorrow,… Read More
Dyn DDoS Attack Reveals IoT Security Failures
It looks like security in the Internet of Things, whose vulnerabilities has been a topic among tech experts for some time now, might finally have been exposed to the light of the mainstream. First, though: DDoS attacks are not hacks. I just want to get that out there right off the bat. It’s a common… Read More
Data Risk Analysis: The Yahoo Example
The cost of data breaches directly affects the cost-benefit analysis when companies are planning their budgets. Studies on the average and median costs of breaches can play a significant role in guiding this analysis. A study that reports these costs as being generally low, therefore, is likely to be cited as reason to deemphasize the… Read More
Cybersecurity Risks and Incentives
Business leaders across America continue, in largely increasing proportions, to cite cybersecurity as a leading concern to their organization. In fact, according to the 2016 Travelers Risk Index (an annual survey on the biggest worries for businesses and consumers), 54% of enterprise leaders share this view. This complements the mere 13% who feel their organization… Read More
Election Interference and What Could Come Next
If I had to guess, I’d say there must be some disgruntled sports fans in Russia right now. In what I can only assume is retaliation for the whole doping scandal that banned almost the entire Russian team from the Rio Olympics last month, cyber thieves have released information on athletes of other countries, including… Read More
Boldly Going Where Hackers Have Already Been
Captain’s Log. Stardate 94293.37 Travelling back to the early 21st century to examine the state of Earth’s technological interconnectivity and security has revealed some troubling insights into our forerunners. These problems have multiplied like tribbles over the last few years, and one in particular stands out. One Earth year ago, in what would be 2015,… Read More
How Not to Maintain Consumer Trust
Ok, so this was pretty big news over the weekend, this WhatsApp “betrayal” of its users’ previously assured privacy by changing its privacy policy to share certain information with Facebook. When Facebook purchased the company in 2014, both Mark Zuckerberg and WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum insisted on independence between the two platforms. That would no… Read More
Media Under Siege?
SPOILERS for Mr. Robot Season two of Mr. Robot has so far escalated the first season’s conflict into a looming cyber war between the US and China, in which the latter’s Minister of State Security, Whiterose, through the “Dark Army” at her disposal, intends to take advantage of the chaos unleashed by the ECorp hack… Read More
One Malware to Rule Them All
A newly discovered malware strain, dubbed Project Sauron after Tolkien’s villain in The Lord of the Rings, has been secretly infecting and spying on the world’s top computers for five years. It’s a fitting moniker, as the dark lord of Middle-Earth was always in his own right associated with espionage. From the beginning he was… Read More