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Tipping the Data Breach Odds in Your Favor I did a Web search on “Apple security” this morning after a couple of headlines on some news sites caught my eye. I was surprised at the amount of information that came up. There was innovative news: Apple’s HomeKit will feature home security controlled via an iPhone. […]

Five Reasons to Take Cloud Security More Seriously Insider threats are as diverse as the employees and contractors causing the security problems. We tend to think of an insider threat as someone who has accidentally or purposely loaded malware into the network, allowing outsiders the opportunity to spy or steal intellectual property. The legal dust-up […]

Tipping the Data Breach Odds in Your Favor Have you ever wondered how customers and clients feel in the aftermath of a breach? I got one of those “Hello. We’ve been breached and your records may have been compromised.” letters in the mail the other day. While my experience as a network security writer doesn’t […]

Study Showcases Biggest Cyber Threat – Feds Trying to Do Their Jobs When an organization’s data is breached for the first time, you hope it learns from the situation and improves its cybersecurity systems to avoid a repeat. However, some organizations haven’t learned much at all from a data breach—in case you haven’t noticed, we […]

Perhaps you are like me; I get tired of having to prove that I’m a human when I visit certain websites. As annoying as it may be, especially trying to read CAPTCHA figures and get them correct on the first try, some new research by Distil Networks shows why it is important that I prove […]

Eight Reasons Why Cyber Attacks Hit Retailers It was only a matter of time before there was a serious security flaw affecting the Internet of Things (IoT). It comes by way of a vulnerability in NetUSB, which lets devices that are connected over USB to a computer be shared with other machines on a local […]

Redefining Enterprise BYOD: Meeting Tomorrow’s Demands I think the thing that has surprised me the most during my years as a security writer is the number of people who shrug off the need to understand cybersecurity threats in order to protect their business and personal interests. Just the other day, for example, I saw a […]

Seven Ways to Improve Cybersecurity Through Behavioral Analysis It’s graduation season, which means a lot of new, young employees are entering the workforce. Is your company’s security system ready for the hit it is going to take? We already know that the millennial generation loves its devices – when was the last time you saw […]

Five Reasons to Take Cloud Security More Seriously Just when you think it is safe to move data into the cloud, we get news about a vulnerability that puts cloud security at risk. The new bug is called VENOM, an acronym for virtualized environment neglected operations manipulation. Bill Weinberg, senior director of open source strategy […]

Seven Data and Information Security Mistakes Even Smart Companies Make Cloud security has always been a sensitive topic. For many years, security was listed as the number-one reason why companies shied away from adopting cloud technologies. Cloud security has improved considerably over the years, but a survey conducted by Perspecsys shows just how far we […]

Five Reasons to Take Cloud Security More Seriously There is a very good possibility that your company was breached in 2014 since about three out of four organizations suffered a breach last year, according . No wonder 2014 was dubbed the Year of the Data Breach. Breaches come with consequences, of course, as the study […]

Seven Data and Information Security Mistakes Even Smart Companies Make Perhaps you heard the news that Google has introduced a new Chrome feature that is designed to protect users from phishing attacks. According to SC Magazine UK, the extension is called Password Alert and is meant to warn users if they are typing their password […]