From FBI Executive To White House CIO, A Security Expert Speaks Out
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality…” These words were written by Martin Luther King Jr. from his jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. Although he was referring to our mutual dependency as people, he could just have easily been writing about the internet. Of course, the internet did not exist back in 1963—but
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When perusing the news about various fails in cybersecurity, both recent and past, the consequences are typically not positive. In fact, industry figures over the past year indicate cryptoming is up, along with those pesky infected phishing emails. Not only do these fails generate massive losses for companies—a sum Ponemon now places at about $5
[ Read More ]How To Keep Employees Alert Through A Phishing Simulation
As a business owner, you can teach employees all day long with tech guides or links to YouTube videos, but nothing educates an individual quite like submerging them in the reality of a dangerous situation. That’s the aim of a phishing simulation, to expose employees to a realistic scenario where they can learn from their
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It’s in the news every day—some shocking political or economic hack, like the one just announced by Marriott revealing the sensitive personal data of up to 500 million guests. It’s become part of our normal day to hear about lost profits, stunned CEOs, and scrambling IT departments. But lurking behind the scenes is a more
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Agriculture—or the science or practice of farming—has long surpassed the fairy-tale vision of hay bales, seasonal harvesters, and horse-drawn wagons. It’s likely that any romantics out there can still stumble across sheepdogs herding, maidens milking, and warm jumpers spun from the wool of the land—but there’s no getting away from just how technology-driven and machine-reliant
[ Read More ]Fake Fingerprints Prove To Be A Biometric Security Risk
The one thing we thought was more unique than a snowflake—our fingerprints—can now be hacked. Straight out of a science fiction movie, you can’t make this stuff up. The advent of biometric technology, which is the technical term for body measurements and calculations, has made fingerprint and facial recognition the method of the moment for
[ Read More ]Is That Really You? Phishing Hacks Reach New Heights
Way back in 1792, King Gustav III of Sweden was assassinated while attending a costume party—or “masquerade ball”—in Stockholm. How convenient for the murderer, who could wear any disguise and not be observed after the fact. While those days of anonymity are long gone, it is still possible for malicious hackers to masquerade behind false
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Facebook’s global growth has skyrocketed in the last ten years, way beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. With such rapid adoption and acceleration, it’s hard to imagine there was ever a time when Facebook wasn’t the biggest fish in the ocean. But it was—even smaller than the way outdated MySpace. Remember? During this time, the social-network-turned-media-platform, has
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iPhones are probably Apple’s most popular product, but a lot of people also use Mac computers, especially if they work in a creative industry like video production 0r just want to look cool at the local coffee shop. But the truth is, those pricey MacBooks aren’t perfect—and even though seem to get thinner and lighter
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Just like the soda wars between Pepsi and coke, there’s an ongoing operating system (OS) war being between Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS. That competition has been going on as long back as November 1985! That’s when Windows 1.0 was released. The first Apple Macintosh computer (as they were called back then) was released in
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