Tag Archives: Cybersecurity

Details from this week’s federal indictment of Russian hackerscharged with compromising hundreds of millions of Yahoo accounts reveal that many people are still not taking rou... More

Cybersecurity spending is expected to reach $1 trillion over the next five years, according to the most recent Cybersecurity Ventures Cybersecurity Market Report. This has raised ... More

Depending on how you look at it, the past year was either tough for security professionals or it showed the world how complex and interesting this field really is. After all, we're... More

Johanna Vazzana knew the job she’d applied for was a stretch. Vazzana, now a cybersecurity strategist working at Mitre, was interviewing early in her career for a technical c... More

For the second time in the past nine months, Google has inadvertently but nonetheless correctly helped to identify the source of a large credit card breach — by assigning a “Th... More

Important Security Updates Adobe Flash Player: Adobe has released version 25.0.0.127. Updates are available from Adobe’s website. To see which version you have, go to Adobe... More

Ken Mills, GM of surveillance and security for Dell EMC, has been honored by the security trade group the Security Industry Association (SIA) with its SIA Chairman’s Award, recog... More

There's a lot of information available about how CISOs should communicate with their peers and superiors, but what about the cybersecurity staff that works under the CISO? How sho... More

Knowing about cybersecurity risks isn’t the same as protecting against them. For instance, a recent survey from the Pew Research Center found that just 12 percent of America... More

So it looks as if the CIA could potentially break into most smart phone or computer networks, at least according to the stolen documents released by WikiLeaks. Whether you hav... More

Most company executives and security professionals have a reasonable understanding of cybersecurity. Even if they don’t fully understand the mechanics under the hood, they at lea... More

The great challenge of security is that you are not only battling Murphy’s Law — the universal tendency of things to go wrong — but also shrewd and malicious attackers who ar... More

It takes less than a month for most zero-day exploits to be developed, and about a quarter of those previously unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities will go undiscovered and undis... More

Important Security Updates Dropbox: Dropbox has released version 21.4.25 for its file hosting program. Updates are available at Dropbox’s website. [See Citadel’s warning b... More

Consumer Reports says it will start including cybersecurity and privacy safeguards in its product reviews. The nonprofit, which reviews everything from cars to appliances, has w... More

Consumer privacy is gearing up to make a big splash this year as people become increasingly annoyed with the way big data thefts at companies like Yahoo! are handled and regulators... More

If you spend a lot of time with security vendors and testing their products, you are likely bombarded with sales pitches touting “next generation” of X, “real-time prevention... More

Sobering news on the cybersecurity hiring front: More than 20% of organizations get fewer than five applicants for an open security job and more than half of all positions (55%) ta... More

Among today’s fastest-growing cybercrime epidemics is “ransomware,” malicious software that encrypts your computer files, photos, music and documents and then demands payment... More

The economics of supply and demand shape today's cybersecurity job market. Each year, US employers post more than 120,000 openings for information security analysts and roughly o... More