All posts by Chris Tribbey

Following his presentation “Meeting the Security Challenges of the Cloud” at the Content Protection Summit in London on Oct. 29, Sohonet chief technology officer Ben Roeder ans... More

By Chris Tribbey The average cost of cyber crime for American organizations is up nearly 100% year over year to $12.7 million, according to a recent study by HP Enterprise Securit... More

Richard Atkinson, chairman of the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA) and global director of piracy conversion for Adobe, will be the keynote speaker at this week’... More

Attackers have been leveraging the FlashPack Exploit Kit to peddle the CryptoWall 2.0 ransomware on unsuspecting visitors to sites such as Yahoo, The Atlantic and AOL. Researchers ... More

The world is a risky place, and it's getting riskier. According to a poll by The Travelers Cos. (TRV), 63 percent of American consumers (801 of them, age 18 to 69, were surveyed in... More

Attackers have managed to bypass a security patch that Microsoft issued last week to address the recently discovered Sandworm vulnerability in Windows, prompting the company to iss... More

Bob Foreman’s architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March. But neither Mr. Foreman nor anyone else at his seven-person company was in the office... More

It’s not a surprise that cyber crime is costly for organizations. The cost of any lost productivity, combined with the fallout of any compromised data, the impact to the organiza... More

People who use Gmail and other Google services now have an extra layer of security available when logging into Google accounts. The company today incorporated into these services t... More

Two industry groups are teaming up to help franchise businesses learn about cybersecurity. The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) — backed by companies such as Facebook, Go... More

Hackers are exploiting a security flaw in Microsoft Office by using PowerPoint to attack Windows users and gain control of computer systems. Microsoft, in a security advisory on i... More

Important Security Updates Apple iOS: Apple has released version 8.1 of its iOS. The update is available through the devices or through Apple’s website. Apple TV: Apple has rel... More

By Chris Tribbey We hear all the time that BitTorrent downloads of films still in theaters — illegally filmed and uploaded — are the bane of the studios’ existence, and a ma... More

By Chris Tribbey It’s just a fact: Employees are going to use their work computers for personal use. Making sure that personal use — whether it be with Facebook or checking y... More

KrebsOnSecurity spent a good part of the past week working with Cisco to alert more than four dozen companies — many of them household names — about regular corporate WebEx con... More

There's always been a tension between the promise of new technology and peril from its misuse or abuse. Look at the recent iCloud breach. A technology that offers the convenience o... More

Recently an anonymous hacker claimed to be in possession of 7 million passwords to Dropbox accounts. While that claim was probably false, it demonstrates the increasingly common wa... More

Adobe, Microsoft and Oracle each released updates to plug critical security holes in their products. Adobe released patches for its Flash Player and Adobe AIR software. A patch fro... More

The 9/11 Commission is calling on Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reed (D-Nev.) to get cybersecurity legislation passed before the end of this Congress. The commission reconvened earlie... More