It starts with a text message from a friend or family member. Have you set up a new account on Facebook? Or someone who is already a friend on your social networks asks why you are looking to “friend” them or connect with them again? You quickly check your account, everything seems normal, but you change your password anyway. ...
Due to the high-profile cases of cybercrime in recent years, including the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal back in 2018, the Equifax data breach in 2017, and the Russian interference with the US presidential election in 2016, cybersecurity is now a top priority for businesses, institutions, and individuals alike.
In order to implement effective countermeasures against cyber attacks, one has to have ...
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The newspaper industry has been blaming the Internet for its immanent and perhaps inevitable demise for decades. Let’s forget the convenient facts like paywalls don’t work because I can get the information elsewhere for free. Or that the subscription price of a newspaper I buy at the store or have delivered to my door covers the cost of physical delivery of the physical ...
A lot of very specific location information is being collected about you, me, and every other smartphone user. The image at left shows everywhere I have been in the last four years, courtesy of Google location services. If you would like to find out what is being collected about you, and how to make it stop, the last article and this article will ...
A lot of very specific location information is being collected about you, me, and every other smartphone user. The image at left shows everywhere I have been in the last four years, courtesy of Google location services. If you would like to find out what is being collected about you, and how to make it stop, the next two articles will help. Today ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.The US is alleged to have been quietly planting malware throughout Russia’s energy networks in response to years of Russian attacks on its own power grid.
My comment: Anybody who wonders why the bad guys are always attacking the US, well, it’s because we are doing it to ...
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Identity theft is probably one of the most serious crimes that can happen to you. The bad news – identity theft in one fashion or another is likely to happen to all of us. In any given year, one in fifteen people will suffer identity theft. There are many ways that your personal information way end up in the hands of ...
The insider threat, the computer or network attack originating from inside our own network, is the hardest to defend. In our last post we took a look at the disgruntled employee and the embezzler. Today we will review insider-based sabotage and corporate espionage.
Sabotage – Sometimes a disgruntled employee will take out their frustrations by orchestrating a little sabotage. Perhaps they have ...
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Which is a bigger risk to your organization? A determined outsider trying to break into your network? Or an insider, an employee or coworker who is already on the network as a credentialed user? Obviously, it is the insider who represents the greatest threat.
In truth, all successful attacks become insider attacks. The determined outsider who finds a way into your network is now ...
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