Spread the loveTweet reader comments 92 Share this story United Airlines might have another public relations nightmare on its hands. First came the viral video of a passenger being forcefully removed…
Spread the loveTweet There are no quiet weeks in security these days, but the firing of FBI Director James Comey made this one particularly loud. President Trump’s controversial dismissal won’t…
Spread the loveTweet Amid a desperate situation Friday in which hundred of thousands of ransomware attacks pelted computers in nearly 100 countries, one stroke of good fortune hit, too. As…
Spread the loveTweet Bob Ackerman Contributor More posts by this contributor: A significant piece of cybersecurity news erupted last week, although it was nearly drowned out by the growing flap over…
Spread the loveTweet Friday’s unprecedented ransomware attack may have stopped spreading to new machines — at least briefly — thanks to a “kill switch” that a security researcher has activated.…
Spread the loveTweet Hundreds of thousands of people live in the city of Las Vegas. But the city’s information security team is made up of just three employees and one…
Spread the loveTweet A ransomware attack seemingly based on leaked NSA hacking tools is spreading like wildfire among unpatched Windows systems worldwide. Early reports suggested it was targeted at the…
Spread the loveTweet Coat’s testimony lists these concerns first, with Russia topping the list of enemy actors. Coats says that the Kremlin has taken a much more aggressive “cyber posture,”…
Spread the loveTweet The reviews aim to point out holes in the nation’s cybersecurity that have been abused by pranksters, hackers and foreign government-directed data thieves. The EO further directs…
Spread the loveTweet But the mass adoption of encryption has also become a thorn in the side of law enforcement and other government agencies. So their reaction has been to…
