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The crypto-currency known as Bitcoin was first introduced in 2009 in a paper published by Satoshi Nakamoto. As Kaspersky Lab described the e-currency: Named “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” the paper defined the foundations for a distributed, de-centralized financial payment system, with no transaction fees. The Bitcoin system was implemented and people started using […]

Six Free Apps That Boost Your iPhone’s Security What is the biggest security problem you expect to face in 2014? Chances are it will have something to do with bring your own device (BYOD), as more companies are relying on staff to use their own devices for work purposes. Your employees are probably using their […]

The 10 Worst Data Breaches of 2013 What is your plan in case your company is hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack? Do you have a plan? If you are like many of the companies surveyed in Corero Network Security’s most recent poll, the answer would be no, you probably don’t have […]

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, as of December 3, 558 breaches have been reported in 2013, and we still have nearly a full month left for more potential breaches. These breaches hit across industries; no one is immune. In late November, BitSight Technologies released a report that investigated how well specific industries were […]

The 10 Worst Data Breaches of 2013 TEKsystems, a company that provides IT staffing and services, recently did a study that essentially took the temperature of IT departments – what they think trends are, where budgets are focusing dollars and the like. One of the areas the survey focused on was security. Most of the […]

2014 Cybersecurity Forecast I have to admit, it has been rather quiet on the security front the past month or two—and for everyone who uses a computer, that is a good thing. But as we wind down to the end of the year, the bad guys have aimed for (at least) one last hurrah of […]

Must-Know Facts Every Mobile User Should Know About Security Happy Cyber Monday! Are you protected from the greatest security threat to your company on this busy online shopping day as well as every other day? That security threat would be your employees—and you. This is all thanks to our collective move to using mobile devices, […]

Eliminating the CIOs’ BYOD Blind Spot It’s good to be confident in your company’s security practices. It’s another thing to be so confident that you don’t think it is necessary to re-evaluate those security practices regularly. A new survey from CompTIA found that while 82 percent of businesses are confident in their security and ability […]

New Threats Seen Subverting Digital Signature Validation A lot of bluster has been made among the media about the problems with the Affordable Care Act website, but one concern that has been severely underreported—or at least has not grabbed the banner headlines—is the attempted security breaches against the health exchange sites. Well, today comes the […]

The Impact of Advanced Persistent Threats to Enterprises If you run an e-commerce site, the worst thing that can happen is an attack that takes down your Web page. And while such an attack is never good, having your site down during this time of year can be disastrous. Prolexic did a study of its […]

The 12 Scams of Christmas 2013 The waning months of the year bring more than New Year threat predictions; they also bring warnings about Cyber Monday and online shopping threats. A new study from SilverSky shows just how unprepared online shoppers are for phishing schemes. More importantly, the study shows how those email spoofs end […]

The ABCs of BYOD Last week, I was looking toward the future and the first tidbits of security-related predictions for 2014. Today, I’m going to look backwards a bit, to see what the security problems of the past few months have been. Perhaps not surprisingly, the third quarter of 2013 was all about mobile malware. […]