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Yearly Archives: 2018

By: Kayla Matthews HackenProof, an Estonia-based cybersecurity firm, reported recently that it discovered a 73-gigabyte database containing 114 million records of approximately 83 million U.S. citizens and companies sitting unprotected online. The data included information such as first and last name, employers, job title, address, phone number, email, and IP […]

Records of 114 Million U.S. Citizen and Companies Exposed Online

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity and tagged OneSpan Shared Assessments on December 26, 2018 by Kayla Matthews

In today’s world of rampant hyperbole and the excessive use of buzzwords, it is often a good idea to define exactly how you are using some terms. This is especially true when talking about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Deep Learning. More than any others in recent memory, these terms […]

5 Questions You Should Ask Your Security Vendors About Their ...

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Industry Trends Opinion and tagged MapR on December 18, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

Financial organizations across the globe are focused on ensuring stringent cyber resilience in the wake of new threats By Matt Tengwall, Vice President and General Manager, Verint Financial organizations across the world face a new risk paradigm; one that encompasses both cyber and physical threats, such as ATM skimming, identity […]

Keeping an Eye on Cybersecurity

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Guest Contributor Industry Trends and tagged Cyber Resilience Verint on December 14, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

Ad fraud – what is it and how is it a serious cybersecurity threat? That is what we set out to learn when we talked with Maggie Louie, Co-founder and CEO of DEVCON. The term ad fraud may very well conjure up visions of a smarmy script kiddie in their […]

Is that Ad just Annoying, or is it Dangerous?

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Industry Trends Opinion and tagged DEVCON on December 11, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

By Hannah Moses a contributing author for VPNetworks, LLC When owning a business, computer hackers are always a concern. There are a few ways to identify if you have been hacked. Fake emails are being sent out, increases in failed login attempts, DNS traffic rises, and inconsistency with patterns for […]

How to Protect Your Business from Hackers

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Guest Contributor Opinion on December 11, 2018 by Editorial Staff

Some of the more fascinating aspects of recent global security developments, including but not limited to GDPR, are the advances in encrypted communications that are now being introduced to the enterprise market. While encryption has long been used by militaries and governments to facilitate secret communication there are now more […]

Encrypted Team Messaging – Why, Where, and When

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Industry Trends and tagged Secure Messaging on December 4, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

Marriott is investigating a data breach of its Starwood reservation system that could have exposed personal information for up to 500 million guests — making it the second-largest breach ever. That data could include passport numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers for 327 million people, while others may also have […]

Marriott Data Breach – What the Experts are Saying

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Expert Commentary on November 30, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

By: Kayla Matthews WatchGuard Technologies, a leading cybersecurity company with more than 20 years in the business recently gave several predictions for 2019. Here they are, and why those forecasts matter to IT professionals and consumers at large. 1. The Rise of Malicious Chatbots Chatbots help people plan trips, cope […]

Nine 2019 Cybersecurity Predictions from WatchGuard Technologies

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Opinion and tagged WatchGuard Technologies on November 28, 2018 by Kayla Matthews

Most every physical security practitioner has wondered, at some point, why the security systems they use every day at work can’t be more like the IoT systems they use at home. Many of the systems we are becoming accustomed to at home provide fast intuitive interfaces that always seem to […]

Why Can’t Your Enterprise Surveillance System Be More Like Other ...

This entry was posted in Industry Trends and tagged Video Surveillance on November 27, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

By: Julie Adams, Editor-in-Chief, Modern Living 101 In a modern smart home, everything from your smart thermostat, to your refrigerator to your baby monitor can be connected to the internet. This unarguably makes life more comfortable, but it also opens people up to a new risk – having their home […]

5 Ways To Prevent Your Smart Home From Being Hacked

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Guest Contributor and tagged Smart Home on November 26, 2018 by Julie Adams

43 Percent of Firms Do Not Know if Devices Accessing Corporate Data Have Downloaded Malware Bring your own device (BYOD) is a hot topic among cybersecurity professionals and business leaders. Today’s workers, particularly millennials, require the mobility to work from wherever they are and cloud solutions are enabling an ever-growing […]

More Than Half of Companies See Rise in Mobile Security ...

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Industry Trends and tagged Bitglass on November 23, 2018 by Steven Bowcut

By Peter Kelley Bots are now hitting organizations of every size, across all industries – particularly retailers and the financial and payments ecosystem – with new ferocity. Financially motivated malicious bot attacks target the retailer’s web, mobile, and API applications, and results include: click fraud, account takeover, fake accounts, API […]

Cequence Marshals Advanced AI to Thwart Bots

This entry was posted in Cybersecurity Guest Contributor Industry Trends and tagged Cequence on November 21, 2018 by Steven Bowcut