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 …
The intricacies and complexities of modern system and network architecture are already difficult enough to wrap your head around even before you start trying to analyze them in terms of weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Students studying for a degree in cybersecurity …
The median age of Facebook employees is 28 years old. At Google, it’s 29. And at many smaller and still unknown startups likely to emerge as the next high tech empires, it’s even younger. The hottest trends attract the youngest …
The rise of internet hackers has Americans more paranoid than ever about protecting their personal information. Anytime new cybersecurity software is introduced, it seems that someone has already figured out ways to breach it. So what is the Internal Revenue …
The morning of Friday, July 22 WikiLeaks offered browsers the opportunity to search through roughly 19,000 emails and 8,000 attachments belonging to central leaders of the US Democratic National Committee (DNC). The email exchanges, which spanned from January 2015 to …