Amazon Hit With Pre-Black Friday Data Breach

With Christmas tree stands popping up around the country and people getting into the holiday spirit, it’s high time for some online crime. Enter...

Adam Levin Discusses Cyber Safe Online Shopping with Good Morning America

Adam Levin was featured on Good Morning America discussing how shoppers can stay safe online this holiday season. See the news segment here.
GDPR

Did Microsoft Make a $200,000,000 GDPR Mistake?

Microsoft’s flagship Office suite has been gathering user data in violation of the European Union’s GDPR, Dutch regulators have determined. Telemetry information harvested from versions...

Corporate America May Get Hurt More than Democracy by Hackers

Whether or not you believe that Russia tried to influence the 2016 election seems to have entered the twilight zone, where the same shred of concrete evidence is...

Adam Levin Editorial on Georgia’s Voting System Featured on the New...

Adam Levin's editorial, "Georgia's Shaky Voting System" was featured on the front page of the New York Times website on November 13th. See the...
Georgia elections

Georgia’s Election System in Need of Fixing

The still undecided race for governor of Georgia exposed a number of election security vulnerabilities and problems in the state’s election processes, revealing one...
Cyber Risk

Moody’s to Include Cyber Risk in Credit Ratings

The American business and financial services company Moody’s will start factoring risk of getting hacked into their credit ratings for companies. The move is...

Watch Those Cookies: Girl Scouts Compromised by Hacker

The Girl Scouts of Orange County has sent out letters warning almost three thousand members that their personal information may have been compromised in...

HSBC Bank Announces Data Breach

HSBC sent a letter to an unknown number of U.S. customers of the bank on November 2, notifying them that their personal information may...
Facebook

Facebook Blocks Handful of Accounts on Eve of Election

Facebook announced in a blog post on November 5th that it blocked 115 accounts on its platforms after being informed by law enforcement that...
FIFA hack

FIFA Hacked Again

The international soccer league FIFA announced it had been hacked earlier this year and is bracing itself for a potential data breach. This latest...
Brian Kemp

Adam Levin Discusses Election Cybersecurity with Motherboard

Adam Levin was featured in an article on Motherboard.vice.com where he discussed Brian Kemp's claims that the Democratic Party of Georgia attempted to hack...

Adam Levin’s Comments on Georgia Election Featured in StateScoop

Adam Levin was interviewed and featured on a StateScoop article on the Georgia Secretary of State's claims that the Democratic Party was involved in...
Catphishing

Adam Levin discusses the “Emotional Terrorism” of Catphishing with CBS News

Adam Levin was featured on CBS News where he discussed the financial and psychological toll of catphishing scams. Levin described the catphishers of being...
Stuxnet

Was There a New Stuxnet-like Attack in Iran?

The Israeli evening news Hadashot reported that Iran “is again facing a attack, from a more violent, more advanced and more sophisticated virus than before.”...
Chinese aerospace hacking

Chinese Government Agents Charged with Hacking, IP Theft

The U.S. Justice Department announced charges against ten Chinese intelligence agents for hacking into computer systems belonging to U.S. and international companies to steal...

USGS Malware Infection Linked to Employee’s Porn Habit

A network-wide infection of Russian malware at the U.S. Geological Survey was traced back to a single employee’s viewing of pornographic content on the...

Is Two-Factor Authentication a Silver Bullet or Lead Balloon for Cybersecurity?

There's an old saying: "Locks are for honest people." The basic idea is that a competent crook can break in no matter what you...
Chinese airline hack

Data Breach of Chinese Airline Exposes Millions of Passengers

Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific discovered a data breach that compromised the information of more than 9 million passengers, the company announced last week. It...

Better Late than Never? U.S. Bolsters Cybersecurity Ahead of Elections

One of the most discussed topics of this year’s election cycle is how best to protect the elections themselves from hackers and other outside...