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Don’t Let the IT Security Paradigm Shift Leave You Stranded I got an email earlier this week with the subject heading, “Hacking Team Hacked.” I wasn’t quite sure what that was all about, so I did a little Web snooping. The Hacking Team, I learned, is an Italian company that, according to eSecurity Planet: … […]

Study Finds Payment Executives at Security Crossroads It speaks volumes for the state of network security when my reaction to the news of an apparent credit card breach in the Trump hotel chain was, “yeah, so?” Credit card breaches are so yesterday, right? Lately, data breaches are all about personally identifiable information and intellectual property, […]

Five Potential Security Concerns Related to Wearables Wrap your mind around this statistic: A new piece of malware on the Android platform is discovered every 18 seconds. That’s at least one new malware found in the time it took me to write these opening sentences. That’s insane. It’s also the reality we now live in. […]

Five Reasons Why Information Security Is Everyone’s Job The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) recently released its 2015 Online Trust Audit & Honor Roll. For the report, OTA analyzed approximately 1,000 websites in three categories: consumer protection, privacy and security. According to a release, the seventh annual audit now includes websites of the top 50 leading […]

Five Reasons Why Information Security Is Everyone’s Job We all know by now that passwords alone aren’t cutting it as a security tool anymore. In fact, a recent study by TeleSign found that 70 percent of consumers have lost confidence in passwords to provide real security for their personal information and 72 percent want something […]

Study Finds Payment Executives at Security Crossroads When the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was hit by hackers, it was yet another example of the government’s security failures. However, I didn’t realize just how weak that security was until a recent study by Veracode. In its State of Software Security report, Veracode found that every […]

Ten Top-Paying Tech Security Jobs A week or two ago, a Facebook friend of mine posted how much he loved the cloud-based password manager that he uses and how safe it is. Many others chimed in with similar comments. You just know I’m going to pop up and warn that there are still plenty of […]

Five Reasons Why Information Security Is Everyone’s Job I think that I’ve become immune to the shock value of the average cyberattack – the one involving my personal records, excepted, of course. It’s not that the attacks aren’t devastating, but I’ve reached a point where I expect every organization to be breached at some point; […]

Five Reasons Why Information Security Is Everyone’s Job Thanks to a new report from Trustwave, it is easy to see why cybercrime has become so prevalent. It pays very well. The 2015 Trustwave Global Security Report (free download with registration) looked at all sorts of issues on the cybersecurity front, from spam to passwords to […]

Top 10 Tips for Educating Employees About Cybersecurity I’ve seen the strides made in cloud security over the years, but a couple of new studies show that there is still a long way to go. The study from Netskope found that sensitive data stored in the cloud has a one in five chance of being […]

It seems like once a week, we see yet another story about a security failure involving passwords. In May alone, for instance, the news came that an unpatched vulnerability in Oracle’s PeopleSoft could open a hole for thieves to steal passwords; Google revealed that those security questions that help you retrieve a lost password are […]

Study Showcases Biggest Cyber Threat – Feds Trying to Do Their Jobs Not surprisingly, I’ve heard from a lot of people regarding the announcement of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach, but what Andy Hayter, security evangelist for G DATA, told me in an email jumped out at me – in part because of […]