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Data at Risk: Super Scary Facts I was hardly surprised to see Home Depot-related emails showing up in my inbox over the weekend. After all, it may be the largest breach ever, with at least 56 million credit cards compromised. It also now appears that Home Depot is the new poster child for what happens […]

Trends in Cyber Crime: A Look at the First Half of 2014 When the Target breach was first announced, I told anyone who would listen a) that this was unusual only in its scope, not that a store suffered a breach and b) expect this story to be the tip of the iceberg. People who […]

Data at Risk: Super Scary Facts A serious Android bug is on the loose that some experts are saying could result in a privacy disaster. This bug, found in the pre-Android 4.4 browser app, evades the Android Open Source Platform (AOSP) browser’s Same-Origin Policy (SOP) browser security. Rapid7’s Engineering Manager, Tod Beardsley, explained it this […]

Data at Risk: Super Scary Facts Last week was a crazy busy week when it comes to data security news. I was out of town and mostly off the grid, and was surprised to see just how much happened while I was not paying a lot of attention. There was the Dyre malware attack on […]

Trends in Cyber Crime: A Look at the First Half of 2014 Sometimes when I read about a new cybercrime technique, I can’t help but wish these guys would use their smarts for good rather than evil. And why can’t the good guys think of these tricks first to thwart the bad guys? That was […]

Trends in Cyber Crime: A Look at the First Half of 2014 The iCloud hack story has been discussed seriously on news shows and websites that include tips on how to protect yourself online (two-factor authentication has never gotten so much airplay as it has over the past week) and it has been the punch […]

Trends in Cyber Crime: A Look at the First Half of 2014 It’s not unusual when a major cybersecurity story is revealed over a holiday. Holidays themselves are prime time for cybercriminals because people tend to let down their guard at that time, and generally, fewer staff is on hand monitoring things. Of course, we […]

Trends in Cyber Crime: A Look at the First Half of 2014 Dairy Queen may be the latest victim of a data breach. Or not. As of this writing, questions surround whether or not credit and debit card data has been breached at Dairy Queen. According to Brian Krebs, sources in the financial industry have […]

Five Critical Tenets of Identity and Access Management Here is an admission you don’t hear very often. In the Wall Street Journal, Trish Wexler, a J.P. Morgan spokeswoman, stated this: Companies of our size unfortunately experience cyberattacks nearly every day. I’ve heard security professionals say this type of thing plenty of times, and from numerous […]

Ten Vulnerabilities that Impact Enterprise Cloud Apps What do the experts think of the current state of information security? That’s what the folks from Core Security wanted to know, so they questioned 117 people at the Black Hat security conference earlier this month. This is what they discovered. The vast majority (80 percent) think security […]

Five Steps to Protect Your Passwords Before It’s Too Late Are company leaders finally realizing that securing the network and the devices that connect to it must be a top business priority? If a new study by Gartner is any indication, the answer is “Yes,” at long last, security is getting the attention it requires. […]

Cybersecurity Grades Released for Key Industries I live in a college town. At this time of the year, residents have a single battle cry: “They’re ba-ack!” The students are slowly migrating back to campus, here and at colleges across the country. Students aren’t the only ones heading to college this fall. According to a new […]