Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity experts always advocate for a strong and unique password, and it is one of their top priority. They also continually identify the different patterns that make a strong, unique password. However, not many take this recommendation seriously, because they think it is difficult to remember or they are not able to come up with

Mainland China has already started its massive facial database of all mainland Chinese citizens and possibly permanent residents of the country as well. Beijing is keen on monitoring the movements of people in the mainland. This is the key to transform China into a cohesive unit, with the opposition to the ruling leaders in Beijing

Minnesota’s Department of Human Services (DHS) headed by its Commissioner Tony Lourey has issued a document to both houses of Congress detailing its data breach happened with the department affecting 11,000 people. It only took the hackers to persuade a DHS employee in opening an “invoice” email, and the department normally receives 92,500 phishing/spam emails

FireEye, a mainstream cybersecurity consulting firm has recently exposed that a state-funded malware development group was behind an attempt to blow a Saudi-based Petrochemical facility using malware a second time. Called the “Triton” group, they have developed the eponymous malware, it takes control of machinery in order to overwork itself with the chance of eventual

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has governed under a One-China, Two-systems policy since 1997. That means the great firewall of China which is enforced in the mainland is not applied in Hong Kong. It decides on its own about its internal policies when it comes to governance, including the responsibility of making sure that

Cybersecurity is a big word that is being used by IT professionals and the mainstream media nowadays, unfortunately, the latter still lack understanding on how to explain it to common people. There is a gap between how the cybersecurity vendor markets their products and services vs how the mainstream media handle the reports as if

For years, we broke news about various organizations becoming victims of data breaches, cyber attacks, spear phishing, and other cyber crimes. We feel sorry for these firms, as nobody deserves to be in a very humiliating and financially stressing situation such as becoming a victim of cybercrime. Today, it is fairly normal to hear this

What are we expecting from the world of cybersecurity, as we enter its second quarter of 2019? In order to predict whatever theoretical or reasonable trajectory that we will experience for the rest of the year, let us review happened in 2018 and discuss the trend of 2018 as a guide for this year based

The political propaganda against Huawei devices continues in the land down under, as the Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has ruled that the ban against Huawei’s 5G devices will continue to be implemented by the federal government. “We have taken the strongest advice from intelligence agencies in this country, the strongest technical advice as to

We are in the paradigm shift when the majority of companies, slowly but surely embracing cloud computing and cloud apps platforms. Cisco’s CISO Benchmark Study 2019 is a global survey participated and represented by 18 countries with 3,200 participants, majority of whom are leaders in the IT field, across many industries from SMEs to multinational