Top Obama Administration Officials, Law Enforcement Reach Out at RSA Conference
Attorney General Loretta Lynch addresses RSA Conference 2016 SAN FRANCISCO—Many of the Obama administration’s top brass are here in force, addressing some 40,000 practitioners from every part of the...
View ArticleCustomers Accept Hacking Risks, But Hold Businesses Fully Accountable for...
While most consumers are coming to consider hacking normal, they are definitely far from letting businesses off the hook for their failures to guard against cyberthreats. According to a new study from...
View ArticleA Risk-Based Approach to Rating and Correcting Individual Cyberrisk
LAS VEGAS—At this week’s Black Hat conference, some information security professionals turned to a key issue to control enterprise-wide cyberrisk: hacking humans. As phishing continues to be one of the...
View ArticleRansomware Threats Jump 300%
Businesses have seen a huge increase in ransomware threats—300% from 2015, according to the FBI, which also reports there were 2,400 ransomware complaints in 2015. In addition to its growing frequency,...
View Article10 Lessons Learned from Breach Response Experts
SAN FRANCISCO—As hacking collectives target both the public and private sectors with a wide range of motivations, one thing is clear: Destructive attacks where hackers destroy critical business...
View Article8 Steps to Stronger Passwords Enterprise-Wide
Passwords remain one of the most critical security controls widely used to protect and secure company infrastructure and data. While the need for strong passwords has long been discussed, they continue...
View ArticleDallas Alarms Hack a Warning of Infrastructure Vulnerability
Dallas residents were wide awake and in a state of confusion late Friday night when the city’s outdoor emergency system was hacked, causing all of its 156 alarms to blast for an hour-and-a-half until...
View ArticleData Breach Risk: What’s Next?
Ten years ago, many companies didn’t even ask about using encryption to protect data. Over the years, that has changed. More security and privacy professionals began to see it as an option in their...
View ArticleInsulin Pumps Recalled After Hacking Vulnerability Revealed
After the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expressed concern this week that some of its internet-connected insulin pumps are vulnerable to hacking and could not be patched, medical device...
View Article3 Tips for CCPA Enforcement During COVID-19
As we move into the second half of 2020 and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is officially enforced, we are also in the midst of a global crisis that was not properly on the radar when the...
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