Tag: cybersecurity

Cybersecurity checkup: New Ponemon study reveals how healthcare sector is doing

April 18, 2016

Health information is both super personal and critical. After all, if your bank accounts are breached, it may creep you out and you might even lose money, but such losses are often insured. If your health information gets hacked, that targets you directly, physically, possibly in ways that insurance can’t fix. If scammers start changing … More Cybersecurity checkup: New Ponemon study reveals how healthcare sector is doing

Hacking wireless mice: If it controls something, it can be abused

March 25, 2016

A cybersecurity company called Bastille, from San Francisco has been doing some experimenting with hacking wireless mice and uncovered a flaw they say leaves millions of networks and billions of computers vulnerable to attack. It turns out that wireless mice from companies like HP, Lenovo, Amazon and Dell use unencrypted signals to communicate with computers. … More Hacking wireless mice: If it controls something, it can be abused

Bangladesh central bank boss quits over $100m cyberheist

March 16, 2016

Bangladesh central bank governor Atiur Rahman has resigned following a cyberheist that saw more than $100 million stolen. Mr. Rahman told Reuters that the country’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina has accepted the resignation, following the events which took place during the first week of February. The resignation follows comments from Bangladesh finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith who … More Bangladesh central bank boss quits over $100m cyberheist

Businesses fail to prepare as cybercrime surges globally

March 10, 2016

Cybercrime is now the second most reported economic crime and has affected at least a third of organizations in the past 24 months, yet many businesses are still underprepared, a PWC report has found. According to the Global Economic Crime Survey, cybercrime has jumped from being the 4th to 2nd most reported kind of economic crime, behind … More Businesses fail to prepare as cybercrime surges globally

Star Wars: A New Hope – 5 information security lessons

December 21, 2015

Unless you have literally been living on a remote, desert-like planet in a galaxy, far far away, spending your days looking out over the horizon as two suns start to set, then you might have missed a ridiculous level of buzz about a certain new Star Wars movie. Indeed, the world has gone positively potty over The … More Star Wars: A New Hope – 5 information security lessons