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The Last Watchdog

When I first wrote about Cloud Access Security Brokers in 2015, so-called CASBs were attracting venture capital by the truckloads — and winning stunning customer testimonials. CASBs (pronounced caz-bees) originally sought to resolve a fast rising security nightmare: Shadow IT. Related podcast: Web gateways emerge as crucial defense layer Striving ... Read More

There’s a new breed of identity thief at work plundering consumers and companies. However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. This has long ... Read More

The discovery of sensitive U.S. military information for sale on the Dark Web for a nominal sum, in and of itself, is unfortunate and unremarkable. However, details of the underlying hack, ferreted out and shared by researchers of the Insikt Group, an arm of the security research firm Recorded Future, ... Read More

We’re undergoing digital transformation, ladies and gentlemen. And we’re in a nascent phase where clever advances are blossoming even as unprecedented data breaches arise in parallel. The latest example of this dichotomy comes from Timehop, a service that enables social media users to plug into their past. On Sunday, Timehop ... Read More

Nation-state backed hacking collectives have been around at least as long as the Internet. However, evidence that the ‘golden age’ of cyber espionage is upon us continues to accumulate as the first half of 2018 comes to a close. Related podcast: Obsolescence is creeping into legacy security systems What’s changed ... Read More

The use of an additional form of authentication to protect the accessing of a sensitive digital system has come a long way over the past decade and a half. Most individuals today are nonplussed when required, under certain circumstances, to retrieve a one-time passcode, pushed out in a text message ... Read More

The cryptocurrency craze rages on, and one unintended consequence is the dramatic rise of illicit cryptocurrency mining. It takes computing power to transform digital calculations into crypto cash, whether it be Bitcoin or one of the many other forms of digital currency. Related podcast: How cryptomining malware is beginning to ... Read More

The disclosure earlier this week that Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly informed all of his employees about a rogue worker conducting “extensive and damaging sabotage” to the company’s operations very much deserves the news coverage it has gotten. Related: The ‘golden age’ of cyber spying is upon us Musk reportedly ... Read More

Don’t look now but cryptojacking may be about to metastasize into the scourge of cloud services. Cryptojacking, as defined by the Federal Trade Commission, is the use of JavaScript code to capture cryptocurrencies in users’ browsers without asking permission. There’s a temptation to dismiss it as a mere nuisance; companies ... Read More

Bank patrons in their 20s and 30s, who grew up blanketed with digital screens, have little interest in visiting a brick-and-mortar branch, nor interacting with a flesh-and-blood teller. This truism is pushing banks into unchartered territory. They are scrambling to invent and deliver a fresh portfolio of mobile banking services ... Read More