We all know by now that the most vulnerable aspect of any organization isn’t usually a weak point in the hardware or software components of an information system. It’s in the wetware, the human minds of the users of the …
Once upon a time, the most notorious hackers out there were individual actors, and if you didn’t know their true name, at least you had some clever handle that made it easy to identify them when they wanted to take …
Cyberattacks have become ubiquitous as the internet has expanded to touch almost every aspect of commerce and human interaction. Like any sort of crime, cybercrime goes where the victims are. It seems we’re fast becoming desensitized to the bigger implications …
Hardly anyone in the cybersecurity field didn’t see this coming. When credit reporting giant Equifax announced on September 7, 2017 that hackers had penetrated their systems and stolen records containing social security numbers, names, addresses, and other private financial data …
Tax season can pose a particularly hectic, if not stressful, time for any professional working in human resources. Adding insult to injury, HR workers are now being targeted by cybertheives phishing for W-2 information under the guise of company CEOs …
So you want a career in cybersecurity? And why not? After all, according to the 2016 Cybersecurity Market Report, global spending on cybersecurity between 2017 and 2021 will reach an unprecedented $1 trillion. Even at home, the cybersecurity industry continues …
An insidious form of ransomware has spread from Microsoft Word to social media. The new type of malware known as Locky first started as a macro that executes from within Word. While Microsoft disables macros by default, some people have …
Internet service on the East Coast slowed to a crawl recently when hackers coordinated a DDoS attack on a New Hampshire internet switchboard company known as Dyn. Twitter and Reddit were among the services disrupted. While tech experts considered the …
On the heels of the announcement that hackers had accessed 500 million email accounts in 2014, Yahoo recently found itself in the spotlight for another cybersecurity issue. When the company’s security team found evidence of a major breach, they assumed …