Tag Archives: cyber-crime

According to Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, two thirds of malware was installed via malicious email attachments. Large organizations know it is inevitable th... More

If you’ve ever had your web browser taken over by a hard-to-close window declaring that your computer is infected with viruses, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is finally here... More

Exploits, data breaches and ransomware campaigns are succeeding despite increased public awareness about these threats. New victims are found, old targets are rediscovered and peop... More

More than 1,000 people are expected to attend the May 18-19 ISSA-LA Information Security Summit at the Universal City Hilton in Los Angeles, with IT and InfoSec executives, leaders... More

Cyber and information security literature – including accompanying reader’s comments – continuously debate the merits of professional certification for cyber and information ... More

When I was a CTO running a data center, I used to ask my ops team to do the shotgun test. They had to imagine our worst enemy came into the data center with a shotgun with one slug... More

If you ask kids right now what they want to be when they grow up, you probably won’t hear “hacker.” But hackers are absolutely essential to protecting cyberspace from compute... More

Do you ever get those thoughts in the back of your mind that somehow, at some point, your organization is going to experience a security breach? I know that’s the kind of stuff t... More

Cybersecurity was huge in 2016. From ransomware to weaponized Internet of Things (IoT) devices to foreign hacking of elections – last year saw it all. But many of these threats a... More

Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions are supposed to boost security, but researchers say the network analysis tools are ripe attack targets. The warning come... More