Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg’s recent highly publicized social media account issues, most executives probably received a serious talking-to from their security chiefs about the need to frequently update and change their passwords on social media. While losing control of an […]
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Every year at the RSA Conference hundreds—maybe thousands—of security vendors crowd into the Moscone Center in San Francisco with claims that their products or services are better. “Better” is a relative measure, but generally speaking the assertion is either that
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Terrorism is a real threat and we all expect the government and law enforcement agencies to be vigilant in defending us against attacks. The effort to protect us from terrorism, however, can’t include surrendering the freedoms, rights, and privileges that
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Attempted theft online has become an everyday occurrence. Whether spammers are trying to steal your personal data, your corporate data, or your money, spear phishing has become the “go-to” method. This wasn’t always the case, but the threat landscape continues
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2015 was quite a year! Hacks and ransomware got personal. APT attacks and cybercrime-as-a service became widespread. The scary future of IoT hacking became a reality with the demonstration of self-driving car hacks. And, a new threat vector of mobile devices
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The US government and law enforcement agencies want to make sure terrorists and criminals can’t hide behind encryption. The solution, apparently, is to try and force vendors to build backdoors through the encryption. The problem with that “solution” is that
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This month the Obama administration sent its big guns to Silicon Valley in an effort to get the computer makers to open up back doors in their systems so that law enforcement could more easily gain access to data. Tim
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The days of the traditional mafia seem to be numbered–at least as its depicted in movies or on TV. Goodfellas has been replaced by Blackhat as organized crime syndicates evolve to master online crime. It is safer and offers an equal
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Every day there seems to be a new malware threat that we hear about, from remotely controlling cars and medical equipment, to attacks on well-known security vendors such as Kaspersky Lab and Bitdefender. Each threat seems to be bigger and
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At its core, crime is crime. The underlying motives and objectives of criminals haven’t really changed over time, but technology has completely changed the rules of engagement for better and for worse. Criminals can execute crimes more efficiently using technology,
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