All posts by Chris Tribbey

David D. Clark, an MIT scientist whose air of genial wisdom earned him the nickname “Albus Dumbledore,” can remember exactly when he grasped the Internet’s dark side. He was ... More

Important Security Updates AVG Internet Security: AVG has released version 2015.0.59.61 of its Internet Security 2015. Updates are available on AVG’s website. Dropbox: Dropbox ... More

By Chris Tribbey This week will see the seventh annual Information Security Summit, held by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA-LA). And... More

News outlets are coping with a wave of cyberattacks as hackers around the world seek to monitor their coverage or deface their websites for publicity. The latest intrusion at the ... More

Sometimes you can smell when it's not going to end well. It's almost like there's a taste in the air. It started with a routine email message in my inbox. But after reading the fir... More

Journalist and founder of Business 2.0 James Daly once said: “You can’t suppress creativity, you can’t suppress innovation.” And it turns out he’s right. Next-generation ... More

Cybersecurity is a topic of discussion at most board meetings, according to a new survey of 200 corporate directors. The survey, conducted jointly by NYSE Governance Services and ... More

Most organisations, regardless of size or sector, would be hard pushed to call their IT security ‘popular’. The general feeling is these tools, together with those of us that i... More

Based upon anecdotal evidence, I estimate that the average large enterprise organization uses more than 70 different security tools from an assortment of vendors. As they say in Te... More

In 2013, a pair of private investigators in the Bay Area embarked on a fairly run-of-the-mill case surrounding poached employees. But according to a federal indictment unsealed in ... More

CSAA announced three of the speakers for its 2015 Annual Meeting, to be held here Oct. 10-14, with the keynote speaker, Stan Stahl, Ph.D, discussing cybersecurity. “Over the nex... More

Important Security Updates Avast: Avast Internet Security 2015 has released version 1.0.0.2214. Updates are available on Avast’s website. Dropbox: Dropbox has released version ... More

By Chris Tribbey CENTURY CITY, Calif. — When Sony Pictures was hit with one of the worst cyber attacks in Hollywood history in late November, hackers stole mountains of employee... More

A federal judge doesn't see anything wrong with how Rightscorp and its clients are using subpoenas to identify film and TV pirates and has dismissed a claim they are abusing the le... More

Microsoft today issued 13 patch bundles to fix roughly four dozen security vulnerabilities in Windows and associated software. Separately, Adobe pushed updates to fix a slew of cri... More

Last month IBM launched its X-Force Exchange opening up access to threat intelligence data to help in the fight against cybercrime. With 80 percent of cyber attacks now coming fro... More

The United States Department of Defense released a new cyber strategy on April 23, revealing how the US views cybersecurity in the post-Snowden era. One trend is immediately clear:... More

Two years ago, the Obama administration announced a new strategy to curb online espionage. The five-point strategy came after a 2013 article in The New York Times about how the ne... More

He calls himself an ethical hacker who helps companies and individuals fight back against the bad guys operating online. Over the years, Charles Tendell also has emerged as a comme... More