The Pew Research Center conducted a survey to discover what Americans know about personal cybersecurity. The results are troubling. Most people know very little which makes them�... More
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If You Don’t Know Much About Cybersecurity, You’re Not Alone (Forbes)
Why America’s Current Approach to Cybersecurity is Dangerous (Slate)
It’s almost impossible these days to avoid media coverage of Russia’s role in hacking the 2016 election. So it was in 2015, when news broke that Chinese hackers had breached... More
NSS Labs Joins Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (CDSA)
NSS Labs announced it has joined the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC) as a Foundation member. IT-ISAC is an exclusive, industry-only forum c... More
Password Security Tips to Help You Foil Hackers (CBS News)
Details from this week’s federal indictment of Russian hackerscharged with compromising hundreds of millions of Yahoo accounts reveal that many people are still not taking rou... More
Dell EMC’s Mills Honored for Cybersecurity Work
Ken Mills, GM of surveillance and security for Dell EMC, has been honored by the security trade group the Security Industry Association (SIA) with its SIA Chairman’s Award, recog... More
Cybersecurity in Seven Minutes (CSM)
Knowing about cybersecurity risks isn’t the same as protecting against them. For instance, a recent survey from the Pew Research Center found that just 12 percent of Americans... More
Nine Cybersecurity Tips for the Mildly Paranoid, and 4 for the Truly Anxious (USA Today)
So it looks as if the CIA could potentially break into most smart phone or computer networks, at least according to the stolen documents released by WikiLeaks. Whether you have ... More
How to Add Two-Factor Authentication to Your WordPress Site (TechRepublic)
WordPress is one of the most-used blogging tools in the world. As we have witnessed with Windows, along with that popularity comes security risks. And since WordPress can be use... More
A Big Concern: The Botnets of Things (Schneier on Security)
Botnets have existed for at least a decade. As early as 2000, hackers were breaking into computers over the Internet and controlling them en masse from centralized systems. Among o... More
Watson Proves a Fast Learner in Cybersecurity Test Run (IBM Security Intelligence)
When we first introduced IBM Watson to the security operations team at Smarttech, the analysts’ initial reaction was suspicion. Was this new partner there to make their lives ea... More