DDoS attacks are vastly bigger now, thanks to botnets composed of Internet of Things devices. A recent attack that took down a portion of the internet has led to questions about whether something similar could shut down critical infrastructure.
Taylor Armerding |
16 Nov |
Read more
Lares CEO Chris Nickerson tells UNITED2016 audience that data is useful, but shouldn’t be allowed to force decisions about cybersecurity.
Taylor Armerding |
04 Nov |
Read more
Laws forbidding hacking into computers are meant to block the theft of intellectual property, music and movie piracy and other criminal activity. But they also have the unintended effect of blocking legitimate cybersecurity research. Security companies are working to change that.
Taylor Armerding |
04 Nov |
Read more
The Online Trust Association issued a prescription earlier this year for securing IoT devices. But even the association’s director admits that, with billions of devices already in use, change will not come easily or quickly.
Taylor Armerding |
03 Nov |
Read more
Defeating highly adaptable cyber attackers takes the same kind of leadership it took to defeat highly adaptable terrorists in Iraq, according to Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal: Enabling the expertise within the organization.
Taylor Armerding |
03 Nov |
Read more
Poll results are supposed to be driven by opinions, but marketers, politicians and others know opinions can be driven by polls. Hence the rising use of bots to skew perceptions in favor of a product, a celebrity or, at this time of year, a candidate.
Taylor Armerding |
24 Oct |
Read more
Congress has finally issued a report on the breach of the federal Office of Personnel Management that exposed the personal information of more than 22 million current and former employees. It comes 15 months after the breach was made public.
Taylor Armerding |
14 Oct |
Read more
Software security is going mainstream, which means the BSIMM, launched to create communal measuring tools, is attracting a younger membership.
Taylor Armerding |
12 Oct |
Read more
Most security experts agree that sharing cyber threat information can help detect and contain it more effectively. But too many in the private sector still feel that sharing with government intelligence agencies feels more like surveillance
Taylor Armerding |
07 Oct |
Read more
The debate about security vs. privacy has been going on since governments existed. It got a lot of discussion this week at the Cambridge Cyber Summit, but it remains unresolved.
Taylor Armerding |
06 Oct |
Read more
Security guru Bruce Schneier reported recently that the companies that maintain the “backbone” of the internet have been under increasing attacks designed to test their defenses. It’s the kind of thing, he said, that could mean an effort to take down the internet is in the works.
Taylor Armerding |
06 Oct |
Read more
Experts agree that recent high-profile cases demonstrate that emails can be permanently destroyed. But they also warn against complacency. They still recommend treating emails as if they really are “forever.”
Taylor Armerding |
26 Sep |
Read more
Industrial control systems are part of the nation’s critical infrastructure. But according to a panel of security experts, they remain catastrophically vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Taylor Armerding |
24 Sep |
Read more
Security weaknesses in connected medical devices will not be resolved for a long time, a panel of experts at the recent Security of Things Forum said. But in the interim, security could be drastically improved just by eliminating “low-hanging fruit” vulnerabilities.
Taylor Armerding |
23 Sep |
Read more
The goal of security awareness training is to help employees recognize and avoid security risks. The key, experts say, is to make them skeptical but not operate in a “constant state of distrust.”
Taylor Armerding |
15 Sep |
Read more