A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A tiny US company called Grayshift is reportedly quietly touting software it claims can unlock Apple’s flagship handsets, the iPhone X and 8.
What if the biggest security risk your company faced was from an employee at a trusted vendor company? Third party risk management, or vendor risk management, is an emerging cybersecurity practice that larger companies are using to mitigate the risk that smaller, network connected third party and vendor companies can represent.
The classic example of the dangers a vendor can bring to another ...
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I recently read an article from Heimdal Security about online safety. In this article Heimdal had asked 18 experts in the field of cybersecurity for their top 3 ideas about how to stay secure. The contributors included top cybersecurity professionals from several anti-malware companies, security bloggers, and cybersecurity industry professionals. The original article is here.
What I found interesting were ...
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Today we finish our story on the history of cyber warfare.
Attributed to Edward Snowden. The target was the National Security Agency of the United States. Snowden was a former CIA employee, who, while working for Booz Allen Hamilton as a contractor to the NSA, copied and leaked NSA information, particularly the computer exploits that the NSA used abroad and ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.From the Smithsonian: A look at the history of unexplained flying objects through the lens of human technological change.
02/01/2018 09:22 PM EST Original release date: February ...
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Fighting cyber-crime is a lot like whack-a-mole. By the time cyber-defenders come up with countermeasures that work against one exploit, the cyber-criminals have moved on to another different and more profitable exploit. Old malware is updated with new versions, and the new versions often slide right by the same defenses that stopped the old version.
Cyber-crime has moved from spamming, fake anti-virus, credit card fraud, and “Canadian” pharmaceuticals, to password cracking, ...
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Your Internet Service Provider has provided you with a free hardware firewall, but often the firewall features are not enabled by default. This is sort of like having seat belts in your car, but not wearing them. It is foolish and risky.
On Monday we discussed how to find out of there are unnecessary open ports on your Internet router’s firewall settings. Today ...
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What if cyber-criminals or enemy nations could take over the computer control systems that run electric utilities, water systems, or traffic control systems for traffic lights and commuter trains. The effects could be disastrous.
We have written about these systems before. These are known as SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) or ICS (industrial control systems). One of the claims of the industries that use SCADA systems is that they are ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.01/29/2018 08:27 AM EST Original release date: January 29, 2018
Tax Identity Theft Awareness Week is January ...
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If your business accepts credit cards for payment, then your a subject to the regulations of the Payment Card Industry. This is known as PCI-DSS Compliance. PCI compliance company Security Metrics recently released an infographic that shows the main compliance failures that lead to credit card breaches in 2017. Here are some of the startling take-aways: