Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are destined to repeat them. Don’t be that organization… Back in September of 2017, Avast indicated that the network of its recently acquired (July 2017) subsidiary had been infiltrated, and that its CCleaner...
A few weeks ago, I read an article that provided significant insight into the Spy vs Spy battles between the Unites States and Russia. Title: Russia carried out a ‘stunning’ breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil It was...
Ransomware is skyrocketing – but we really shouldn’t be surprised. In fact, many in the cybersecurity community saw it coming. To set the tone for what I’m talking about, here are just a few of the recent headlines pertaining to ransomware: ...
This past week I read a pretty interesting article, posted on SiliconANGLE, about vulnerabilities found in cloud applications. It had the unfortunate title of: Report finds 34M vulnerabilities across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure This was compounded by the lead off...
In 2012, the writers of malware and the attackers of networks were very busy, using both social engineering and increased technical sophistication to fuel an increased number of attacks. Not incidentally, mobile devices just flew off the shelves this year,...
In the past few days, we learned that Global Payments Inc, a middle-man credit checking company, suffered a breach of its systems starting in January of this year. It has been speculated that up to 10 million card holders might be at risk. Even with the growing trend...
