We trust that President Trump’s executive order on cybersecurity will have the result with federal agencies the President wants, and the nation needs. For, as SecurityInfoWatch reports, “more than 190 federal agencies who previously all have been running disparate cybersecurity programs will have the opportunity to create a unified framework that will not only help […]
Amid all the coverage of digital security breaches so far this year, it’s not surprising to learn that “data breaches and software vulnerabilities look set to break new records in 2017, if first quarter trends are any indication.” That’s DarkReading’s conclusion as it reports that “Risk Based Security’s analysis of Q1 data showed there were […]
A television station in Los Angeles makes a point to remember about the chaotic scene in New York’s Time Square in which a speeding, careening car was brought to a halt by security bollards. One woman was killed and 23 other people were injured in the incident. But “Investigators,” the TV report added, “said the […]
SecurityInfoWatch takes us into the digital chaos produced by the “Wanna Cry” ransomeware attacks. The infection was spread via a massive email spam, exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows OS, which Microsoft released a security patch for in March. Computers and networks that did not install the patch to help protect their systems are at […]
Thanks to an executive order from President Donald Trump, the U.S. is strengthening its cybersecurity defenses. Government Security News advises that: “James Carder, the chief information security officer for LogRhythm, said the executive order encompasses many of the recommendations his firm makes to its clients. In particular, Carder, who has nearly 20 years of experience […]
How to stay “heads up” with the latest cyber security risks, especially when they’re growing? That’s not an easy question for an assured answer, but Security InfoWatch tries its best, and helpfully. “Despite the grim outlook,” InfoWatch notes, “”there’s also a great deal of research being done on various cyber crime trends to help keep […]
On DarkReading, Joshua Goldfarb provides a meditation on rushing to judgement and/or mocking the makers of mistakes. “Do you think that if someone were to mock me,” Joshua asks, “it would make me feel better about the mistake I’ve made, or somehow encourage me to learn from it?” Just the opposite. “Mocking people causes them […]
We’ve been noting the arrival of industrial and security robots, but as with their human counterparts, they’re not without problems. DarkReading reports on how researchers hacked an industrial robot, causing it to draw a “slightly skewed” line when the mechanism thought it was a perfectly straight one. The robot’s “straight line” was off by off […]
Big businesses or small – both sizes are subject to cyber security attacks. There’s no safety in smugness for either size. Security Infowatch warns that “Many small businesses fall under the false impression that criminals will only target large or even medium-sized businesses given the higher potential pay out; however, nearly half of all cyber-attacks […]
If you have any doubts about the effectiveness of the security measures you’ve taken at your workplace – and you should have, actually – consider hiring or retaining penetration testers – or “pentesters” for short. That’s the advice of SecurityInfoWatch in a post, “Inside the Mind of Hackers”. This holds for both perimeter and digital […]