There are many inconvenient truths regarding cybercrime. Every second in 2016, someone became a victim of cybercrime, meaning around a million people a day were affected. Cybercrime is a serious threat to businesses, individuals, and even nation-states. Three-quarters of Fortune […]
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A new report from Gartner claims that information security spending will increase about 7 percent this year, and climb to $93 billion in 2018. As impressive as that number sounds, it actually seems quite tame when you consider the pace
This last year or so has been somewhat of a showcase for how not to do security. Much of last month was hundreds of thousands of us dealing with the fact that the NSA likely spent millions finding an exploit
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Lately, we’ve been hearing on a daily basis about alleged wiretapping by leaders and governments both foreign and domestic. Americans find themselves asking, What is our government up to? What might be the consequences of governments’ abilities to listen into
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With digital advancements you would expect some progress in halting cybercrime. But wait!! The graph of data breach statistics was trending up as the year progressed. While we hoped for a more secure year for our online world, the scammers showed us
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While nobody will argue that Donald doesn’t know his way around a 140-character tweet, I think it’s fair to say cybersecurity experts and the US Intelligence Community know more about hacking than he does–by an order of magnitude or more.
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Trump won the election and must now face the stark realities of what it takes to run a nation, and actually be the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Funny thing about governing, though–making wild claims and
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Computer and network security is always a concern, but in the US presidential election cycle it seems to be playing a more prevalent role than usual. The tedious focus on Hillary Clinton’s email server while Secretary of State, leaked information
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This has been a crazy election cycle so far–and that is putting it mildly. Cybersecurity was already a major concern for the country in general, but somehow it has also become a focus of the campaigns and candidates themselves. I
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Donald Trump issued an open invitation for Russia to hack his rival Hillary Clinton and expose information that could sway the upcoming election for President of the United States. Then his campaign declared that it was being misinterpreted and that
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