cybersecurity
Consumers vastly misjudge the vulnerability of their home networks
Internet users in the United States vastly underestimate how often their home networks are targeted by cyber threats. That’s one of the key findings of a new Comcast report. …
Demand for private network deployments will be driven by heavy industry verticals
With enterprise 5G maturing, the importance of private networks for the enterprise domain will continue to grow. According to ABI Research, the demand for private network …
How prevalent is DNS spoofing? Could a repeat of the Dyn/Mirai DDoS attack have the same results?
Two separate groups of academics have recently released research papers based on research into the Domain Name System (DNS). One has found that the overwhelming majority of …
Why microlearning is the key to cybersecurity education
Cyber attacks are on the rise during this year of uncertainty and chaos. Increased working from home, online shopping, and use of social platforms to stay connected and sane …
Foiling RaaS attacks via active threat hunting
In this Help Net Security podcast, Jon DiMaggio, Chief Security Strategist at Analyst1, talks about the characteristic of attacks launched by Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) …
Retail CISOs and the areas they must focus on
In this interview, Matt Cooke, cybersecurity strategist, EMEA at Proofpoint, discusses the cybersecurity challenges for retail organizations and the main areas CISOs need to …
Malware may trick biologists into generating dangerous toxins in their labs
An end-to-end cyber-biological attack, in which unwitting biologists may be tricked into generating dangerous toxins in their labs, has been discovered by Ben-Gurion …
How do I select a pentesting solution for my business?
Given the number of vulnerabilities that have gone global in the past few years, enterprises can’t afford to keep relying on reactive security. Just hoping that an alert …
Review: The Perfect Weapon
John Maggio, an award-winning producer, director, and writer, known for The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (2017), Panic (2018), The Italian Americans (2015) …
Pandemic thinking: What if there were a vaccine for OT ransomware?
The year 2020 has been defined globally by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of few silver linings for this difficult set of circumstances is innovation – redesigning normal …
New wave of affordable silicon leading to greater IoT project success
With up to 75 percent of remote device management projects deemed “not successful,” in 2020, IoT deployment has been limited in realizing its full potential. Path to IoT …
84% of global decision makers accelerating digital transformation plans
Unit4 surveyed business and IT decision makers and users working in service industries in August and September 2020, to understand how well organizations are embracing …