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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
posted in News and EventsTax 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 …