All posts by Chris Tribbey
Survey: CISOs see Cybersecurity Progress (Fed Scoop)
A shift is occurring in the way industry and government deal with cybersecurity: Those in leadership positions are phasing out reactive strategies built to meet compliance standard... More
Survey Finds Threat of Cybercrime Prompts Nearly 3 in 4 U.S. Adults to Change Online Behaviors (University of Phoenix)
Data breach instances increased 23 percent in 2014 and U.S. adults are taking notice. Nearly three-quarters (74 percent) say they have changed their online behavior due to the thre... More
BeBop Adopts IBM Cloud to Create First Online Editorial Platform for Entertainment Industry (IBM)
BeBop Technology offers innovative digital solutions for the media and entertainment industry, including its newly created BeBop platform, Hollywood’s first and only cloud-based ... More
The Problems Experts And Privacy Advocates Have With The Senate’s Cybersecurity Bill (Forbes)
It took more than four years for the Senate to pass a cybersecurity bill. As the legislation grew stale amid compromise and contention on the Senate floor over the years, hackers ... More
A Quick Guide to the Cybersecurity Bill Passed by the U.S. Senate (Scientific American)
Yesterday, after more than a year of bickering, stalling and revising, the Senate passed its most significant cybersecurity bill to date 74–21. The Cybersecurity Information Sha... More
Cybersecurity Information (Over)Sharing Act? (Krebs On Security)
The U.S. Senate is preparing to vote on cybersecurity legislation that proponents say is sorely needed to better help companies and the government share information about the lates... More
Marsh: Premium for Cybercrime Insurance on the Rise (Consultancy.uk)
Cyber-attacks have been steadily increasing in severity and scope in recent years. This year so far has seen a number of breaches potentially affecting hundreds of millions, includ... More
Weekend Vulnerability and Patch Report, Nov. 1, 2015 (Citadel Information Group)
Important Security Updates Adobe Shockwave Player: Adobe has released version 12.2.1.171 of Shockwave Player to address a critical vulnerability. Updates are available through ... More
DSB Consulting Founder: ‘Our Specialty is Helping Clients Evolve’
By Chris Tribbey From his time as network administrator at the Survivors of the Shoah Foundation, to his years as director of research and development for Technicolor, to consul... More
New ‘Variety’ Summit to Tackle Data-Driven Storytelling, Marketing
For Variety’s first-ever Big Data Summit, one day just wouldn’t be enough to cover all the ways big data is impacting Hollywood. On Nov. 4-5 at the Intercontinental Hotel in C... More
Directors Guild Asks for Illegal Streaming to Become a Felony (CDSA)
By Chris Tribbey For a long time now, illegal downloading and illegal streaming of copyright-protected content have been treated very differently, with the former earning offender... More
What Types Of Data Do Cyber Security Researchers Use To Find Threats? (Forbes)
As a Cyber Security researcher/developer I ingest as much data as possible. I read mainstream news articles, surf underground forums, academic papers, manuals and take a plethora o... More
Why the Private Sector is Poaching Cyber Security Experts from the Public Sector (Computing.com)
Recent high profile data breaches including Sony Pictures, Ashley Madison, and JP Morgan, which led to huge financial loss, claimed the heads of senior executives, damaged the publ... More
TalkTalk Cyberattack: Who, What and Why? (Reuters)
The cyberattack on British broadband supplier TalkTalk this week raises a host of questions over who could be behind it and what their aims are. TalkTalk said on Friday it had rec... More
White House Endorses Cybersecurity Bill, Bucking Privacy Groups (Government Executive)
The Obama administration has endorsed a cybersecurity bill that will get a vote this week in the Senate. Lauding the Senate Intelligence Commit... More
Why Corporate Boards Are Picking Women to Fill Cybersecurity Posts (Bloomberg Business)
Earlier this year, American International Group Inc. added Linda Mills to its board, attracted partly by her expertise in cybersecurity. In February, Wells Fargo & Co. selected... More
On the Hunt for Merger or Acquisition? Make Sure Your Target is Secure (CSO)
Security experts regularly exhort organizations to improve their security not just internally but externally as well, in their business relationships with third parties. B... More
CIOs Reporting Directly to CFOs can Create Massive Cybersecurity Headaches (Business Insider)
Many companies need technology upgrades but are "starving" for the cash necessary to upgrade critical systems. That's the message from the author of a new study sponsored by the ... More
As Sites Move to SHA2 Encryption, Millions Face HTTPS Lock-Out (ZDNet)
In 2016, tens of millions of people around the world will face trouble accessing some of the most common encrypted websites like Facebook, Google and Gmail, Twitter, and Microsoft ... More