All posts by Chris Tribbey

By Chris Tribbey Intelligence driven cyber defense may be the best approach against hackers and other cyber criminals, according to a new IT leadership survey, but it’s a strate... More

LOS ANGELES — The Content Delivery & Security Association, CDSA, which conducts over 100 security audits for media & entertainment companies worldwide, has released the i... More

When you were a kid, you may have heard that nobody likes a tattletale. That isn’t true. BSA The Software Alliance loves tattletales. If you report software piracy to BSA and yo... More

Popcorn Time was an instant hit when it launched just over a year ago: The video streaming service made BitTorrent piracy as easy as Netflix, but with far more content and none of ... More

After the Federal Government tabled new legislation to allow the blocking of sites facilitating piracy, legal and copyright experts have raised concerns that VPN providers could be... More

How strategic is IT security to you and your enterprise? Our 2015 State of the CIO research, published in January, tells us that it's certainly climbing up your priority list. Even... More

Google has been cracking down on Android malware, and according to a new Android State of the Union report, it's starting to see real progress in the fight against harmful software... More

In an effort to deter and punish hackers and cyberspies who have until now been outside the reach of U.S. law enforcement, President Barack Obama signed an executive order today al... More

Everybody makes mistakes. Google caught a big one before it was too late. The tech giant fixed a giant vulnerability in YouTube that allowed any user to delete any video from the ... More

Important Security Updates Dropbox: Dropbox has released version 3.4.3 for its file hosting program. Updates are available at Dropbox’s website. [See Citadel’s warning below] ... More

By Bryan Ellenburg For many years, the media and entertainment industry has largely focused security auditing on traditional brick-and-mortar vendors, including visual effects ven... More

For years, Lulu Zezza has played one of the toughest roles in Hollywood. Ms. Zezza, who has managed physical production on movies like “The Reader” and “Nine,” also overse... More

How many of us have downloaded a mobile app without reading the privacy agreement? Apparently a lot. A new survey out from a San Francisco-based mobile security company says we’r... More

Repeated cyber security breaches finally have focused congressional attention on how best to deal with this exploding exposure. As we report on page 1, a Senate panel recently held... More

In recent months Hollywood has pushed Netflix to ensure that VPN users can't access their services. Netflix honors these requests, but according to CEO Reed Hastings there's a bett... More

Investors don’t know what hack-proofing costs — and maybe they don’t care. Maryland, where I live, requires its practicing Certified Public Accountants to attend an ethics c... More

There are a lot of frustrated IT managers out there. How do I know? Because a recent survey commissioned by Sungard Availability Services* revealed that the #1 thing IT managers sa... More

Leaders of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee introduced legislation on Tuesday to make it easier for companies to share information about cybersecurity threats wi... More

Some of the first major signs that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) had entered the online piracy fight came with the shutt... More