Several months in to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s starting to look like there are a few different formulas for beating the disease. Countries like Taiwan and Japan used their previous experience and cultural cohesion to flatten the curve without resorting …
Almost everyone who works in the information security industry today has seen it. Many of you were inspired to get into the field by one seminal Hollywood film: the 1983 smash hit “War Games.” No lesser personage than “The Dark …
Let’s face it, hacking is fun. For a lot of cybersecurity professionals as well as black hat hackers, it’s a kind of game, one that pits intellect and skill against unknown adversaries. So for many people who get into cybersecurity, …
Just when you thought it was safe to use wifi again, here we go with another vulnerability in the most popular wifi encryption scheme in use today, WPA2. If you’ve been in the cybersecurity field for a while, you already …
It’s axiomatic in cybersecurity that the biggest hacks are the ones you haven’t heard about… yet. For both hackers and the organizations that end up compromised, there are powerful incentives not to publicize major security breaches. Hackers don’t want to …
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 …