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It’s great that more folks are backing up their files using cloud-based services like Dropbox. While hackers and virus writers get all the headlines, I think hardware failure is really the biggest risk most consumers face. Cloud services have become such a part of the way we live, however, that we’ve gotten a little too casual about it. That’s...
A recent report by cybersecurity management firm Venafi showing that a vast majority of the world’s largest companies remain vulnerable to attacks stemming from the Heartbleed flaw suggests that many have not grasped the full nature of the threat nor do they think the risk justifies the cost of remediating it.
It’s been exactly one year since details of the...
With each passing brand name mega-breach—Home Depot, Target, JPMorgan Chase, Anthem—it becomes ever more urgent for government and industry to get on the same page about how to protect consumers.
Sadly, not all laws are created equal, and there are few better examples of this homespun truth than a would-be federal law currently wending its way through Congress. And not...
Emails purportedly sent by health insurance companies and large banks are more likely to be fraudulent than those claiming to be from social media companies, a new research study reveals.
An email that appears to come from a health insurance company is four times more likely to be fraudulent—or two times more likely from a large U.S. bank—than an email...
Adam Levin spoke with Liz Claman on Countdown to the Closing Bell on Fox Business about the security issues surrounding Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 'homebrew' e-mail server. Levin voiced his concerns: "Was it privacy? Was it security?... I always get scared when convenience trumps security." Click the video above to see the full interview.
The Democratic and Republican gristmills got to work last week on Hillary Clinton’s “homebrew” email, and the ensuing firestorm underscored an alarming lack of cyber-savvy among the leading players of the 2016 election. It also raised a serious question: Should the Secret Service protect presidential candidates against cyber attack?
News of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email service, @clintonemail.com,...
An alarming number of cloud-based apps used by enterprise employees don’t encrypt data at rest or require two-factor authentication.
And an astounding number of employees are still uploading highly sensitive data to the cloud and sharing files on unsecured platforms, according to the Cloud Adoption Risk Report Q4 2014 from cloud security vendor Skyhigh Networks.
The recent breach of 80 million...
Media reports concerning the Anthem breach have indicated that the compromised personal information wasn’t encrypted. Encryption – strong, modern algorithms properly implemented with tight key management – is the most effective way to protect data in 2015.
How do we know this? Edward Snowden, of course. He made it clear that the NSA is unable to break strong encryption. It’s...
Faked PayPal email notifications directing recipients to malicious websites aren’t new. But cybercriminals are getting a lot better at executing them.
That’s what the discovery of a current phishing campaign designed to lure victims to click to a pair of very well-designed faked PayPal websites shows.
The finding comes from researchers at OpenDNS, a free, advertising-sponsored service for making faster, more...
A funny thing happened on the way to the ATM (and depending on who you believe, may still be happening). Scratch that. For the lucky few at the right place at the right time, an awesome thing has been happening: ATMs randomly coughing up cash—and a lot of it. Like an international lottery, the phenomenon has occurred in more...