Who leaked NSA exploits to Shadow Brokers? Ah, it’s Russians again!
More “evidence” has emerged this week, once again from a security company, this one based in Washington DC, that appears to point the …
Month: November 2017
Consumer Ploys Rise to the Top in Phishing Gambits
The bad guys behind phishing mails are changing up their tactics to appeal to personal motivators in their subject line lures. In previous …
Google Sued for Invading the Privacy of Millions in UK
Google is being sued on behalf of millions in the UK over privacy violations, after it allegedly secretly accessed their browsing data on …
Cyber Security Roundup for November 2017
One of the most notable data breaches disclosed this month was by Uber, given the company attempted to cover up the breach by paying off …
Google Chrome vows to carpet bomb meddling Windows antivirus tools
By mid-2018 Google Chrome will no longer allow outside applications – cough, cough, antivirus packages – to run code within the browser …
Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Three Approaches to Machine Vision
My latest project, the robotic skull, is getting complicated. Right now there is a quad-core processor in the JeVois smart vision sensor, a …
UK Banking Stress Test Results: What It Means For Fintech
published its 2017 bank stress test results and this revealed what scenarios major financial institutions could and would be able to …
Consumers Overwhelmingly Blame Businesses for Breaches
The majority of consumers—70%—would stop doing business with companies following a data breach; yet they fail to take any …
How to Safely Store Cryptocurrency – Review of 5 Safest Bitcoin Wallets
$10,000. That’s the valuation achieved by Bitcoin on November 28, …
Crypto-cash souk Coinbase forced to rat out its high rollers to probing US taxmen
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will be turning over information on 14,000 of its users to the IRS – Uncle Sam’s tax collectors – …
Key To CISO Role Is Effective Communication
There are lots of “Cs” in the C-suite these days. Most organizations have your standard CEO (chief executive officer), CFO (chief …
Holiday-Related Studies Find Customers Will Go Elsewhere When Security Fails
I know Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over, but the holiday shopping season is in full swing. Some interesting cybersecurity studies are …