A recent survey of senior IT security professionals revealed that an astonishing 74% were not sure that their company’s network had been breach free from a cyber attack sponsored by a foreign country. Article Excerpt: Businesses are losing the battle against...
An IT consultant who is also a commercial pilot recently unveiled an app he developed for use with a smart phone that can hijack flight simulation software. He argues this kind of app could be used to hijack a real plane. The Federal Aviation Administration...
Gone are the days when one had to be a computer genius to commit a cyber crime. Now there are programs that can assist non-tech savvy criminals. Article Excerpt: Combating cybercrime will become an uphill struggle, with the tools needed to commit technological crimes...
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) typically perceive their cyber liability as less than that of huge publicly traded corporations. After all, there is a continual stream of news accounts these days about hackers breaking into a big company’s network, stealing...
Businesses and individuals in the United States have long been aware of Internet privacy and security issues. While we struggle with the complexity of 45 different state privacy regulations as well as federal regulations that include HIPAA and Graham-Leach Bliley, we...
Passwords are worth their weight in gold to hackers. Once a cyber criminal figures out an employee’s password, he has an entry into the company network. From that point, using other tools, the hacker can steal just about anything he wants, and wreak havoc in the...
