Cybersecurity
Ten Ways The C-Suite Can Protect Their Company Against Cyberattack
Cyberattacks are one of the top 10 global risks of highest concern in the next decade, with an estimated price tag of $90 trillion if cybersecurity efforts do not keep pace with technological change. While there is abundant guidance in the cybersecurity community, the application of prescribed action continues to fall short of what is required to …
Protect Your Privacy During Turbulent Times: A Hacker’s Guide To Being Cyber-Safe
Protecting individual privacy from government intrusion is older than American democracy. In 1604, the attorney general of England, Sir Edward Coke, ruled that a man’s house is his castle. This was the official declaration that a homeowner could protect himself and his privacy from the king’s agents. That lesson carried into today’s America, thanks to …
5 Milestones That Created The Internet, 50 Years After The First Network Message
Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the internet, a network called ARPANET. On Oct. 29, 1969, Leonard Kleinrock and Charley Kline sent Stanford University researcher Bill Duval a two-letter message: “lo.” The intended message, the full word “login,” was truncated by a …
Building Privacy Right Into Software Code
When I was 15, my parents did not allow me to use AOL Instant Messenger. All of my friends used it, so I had to find a way around this rule. I would be found out if I installed the software on my computer, so I used the web browser version instead. Savvy enough to …
Hunting Hackers: An Ethical Hacker Explains How To Track Down The Bad Guys
When a cyberattack occurs, ethical hackers are called in to be digital detectives. In a certain sense, they are like regular police detectives on TV. They have to search computer systems to find ways an intruder might have come in – a digital door or window left unlocked, perhaps. They look for evidence an attacker …
There’s A Massive Cybersecurity Job Gap – We Should Fill It By Employing Hackers
Cybersecurity incidents are gaining an increasingly high profile. In the past, these incidents may have been perceived primarily as a somewhat distant issue for organisations such as banks to deal with. But recent attacks such as the 2017 Wannacry incident, in which a cyber attack disabled the IT systems of many organisations including the NHS, …
Safety And Security In Cloud Storage
The use of cloud storage has become increasingly popular. This is not surprising since apart from preserving your files, cloud storage also provides tools which are useful in collaborative work. Apart from this, cloud storage is more accessible a physical drive. It is not susceptible to getting damaged like a hard drive, either. Lastly, you …
Artificial Intelligence For A Smarter Kind Of Cyber Security
As IBM Security vice president of strategy and design Kevin Skapinetz stated, cybercrime has evolved to a point that it is completely different from how we used to visualize hackers. The days where hackers are isolated individuals are long gone. The threats we are dealing with now are highly organized, elaborate, and constantly changing. In …