Shadow data is a logical derivative of shadow IT, an organizational issue that we have approached in a previous article on our MobileCurated publication. When “intra-enterprise information-technology solutions (…) compensate the busy schedule of the official IT department”, organizational data meets
We come into contact with numerous digital files every day, but some of them might not be what they seem at first glance; designated by the term “steganography”, the practice of concealing a message in a different cover-message precedes the era of cybernetics. A sub-section of cryptography, ste
One of early 2016’s cyber-security incidents consisted in the Hyatt hotel chain disclosure that almost half of its global payment processing systems endpoints have been infested with PoS malware, active for 6 months during 2015. A Kasperky Lab blog pointed out, the situation is not singular and p
Part of data privacy protection consists in being able to permanently delete data when necessary. Data deletion is another form of user control over sensitive or private information that has been at one moment entrusted upon a device or a storage medium. This brings out the question of how hard it
Visual hacking, also dubbed shoulder surfing , is the act of accessing sensitive or relevant data by taking advantage of a physical position that allows the intruder to visualize another person’s device screen. Variations consist in determining the password from the most worn out keyboard key or t
SCADA stands for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, being the consecrated denomination since the 70s for the remote monitoring and control activities necessary in modern industrial activities. A subcategory of the general ICS (Industrial Control Systems), SCADA systems gained importance with
