Nasty. Let’s see if they have effective backups in place…: Twenty-three towns in Texas had their computer systems hacked and their data held hostage in a large-scale coordinated ransomware attack […]
Who should have access to CCTV footage?…: Cities and local police departments have asked Ring, Amazon’s home security company, to share the names, home addresses, and email addresses of every […]
Worth reading…: Over the past several years, commercial use of biometric data has become increasingly prevalent. In response, several states have adopted biometric data privacy legislation. Consequently, companies that rely […]
This is one of a series of articles that contain useful metrics about the business of cyber security, such as…: […] In 2004, the global cyber security market was worth […]
Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Traditionally, those connections have been mainly hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers. […]
More alphabet soup from security technology vendors. I read this as: “Current SIEM can’t actually cope so we’ll invent something new”…: […] Traditional EDR technology collects telemetry data about events […]
This from an interview with Sam Olyaei, senior principal analyst, Gartner. Do you have a threat model for your digital transformation program? I don’t just mean the technology platform, but […]
Large enterprises and organisations regularly conduct these exercises (which is good). Unfortunately the defenders aren’t doing a good job of stopping the attackers. This is why I got into promoting […]
Useful debate on encryption. One point it doesn’t cover is the relatively simple countermeasure of fooling a targeted end user into installing a version of the client (WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram…) […]
Public spaces are definitely not the best places to use passwords or deal with sensitive information. To add to the risks of shoulder surfing, CCTV and dodgy wifi, we now […]