Category: Security

October 15, 2021

Apple’s proposal to compel iPhone users to accept updates that would automatically and covertly search shared images for possible abuse material and send reports to Apple or law enforcement agencies are today condemned as unworkable, vulnerable to abuse, and a […]

October 15, 2021

Companies often claim to be customer-centric, or even customer-obsessed, striving to offer technologies that their users demand. However, the findings of a recent global Auth0 survey suggest that organizations worldwide continue to miss the mark when it comes to giving […]

October 14, 2021

We hear it all the time: “The human is the weakest link!” or “People can’t get their heads around the technology so how can we expect them to know bad when they see it?” Yeah, right. The fact is that […]

October 14, 2021

Schools have taken a big hit due to cyberattacks. In some cases, incidents involving educational institutions have resulted in truly terrible consequences. Just a few of the recent examples are data breaches where a child’s data was used to apply […]

October 13, 2021

We are finally at the precipice of cybersecurity awareness if the data of a new poll has anything to say about it. While the nation seems divided on a long list of issues, when it comes to cyber threats, most […]

October 12, 2021

Microsoft on Monday revealed that its Azure cloud platform mitigated a 2.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the last week of August targeting an unnamed customer in Europe, surpassing a 2.3 Tbps attack stopped by Amazon Web Services in […]

October 12, 2021

Congress is working to funnel resources to beef up state and local government cyber infrastructure after the COVID-19 pandemic forced municipalities to move many essential operations to aging and vulnerable online sources. Included in the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by […]

October 12, 2021

Ermetic announced the results of a study about the security posture of AWS environments and their vulnerability to ransomware attacks. In virtually all of the participating organizations, identities were found that, if compromised, would place at least 90% of the […]

October 11, 2021

Meant to provide federal agencies with guidance on securing their networks while ensuring that remote users do have access to internal resources, the document was produced in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Federal Chief Information […]

October 11, 2021

Some of the changes to IT environments prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic—primarily work-from-home (WFH) and cloud adoption—are here to stay and will require long-term revisions to enterprise cybersecurity strategies. The often hasty measures that many organizations have deployed to ensure […]