Transportation and Security: Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Software Glitches
Spring has rained down on the aviation industry with a couple of rough storms. On the heels of multiple airlines having to delay nearly 800 flights due to an unidentified glitch in software from third-party vendor Aerodata, an initial investigation report on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines that left 50 ... Read More
Will Streaming Platforms Advance Gaming Security to a New Level?
Game developers represent some of today’s most passionate artists who toil—sometimes in their basements ’til the wee hours of the morn—to create a complex work of art that infuses story, sound and visuals to both engage and challenge the players. They bring life to the words of Shakespeare, who said ... Read More
Cybersecurity: Collegiate Hackathon Helping Advance Students, Industries
It’s students versus cybersecurity experts in the March Madness of Security Have you filled out your bracket yet? Not the one for the NCAA Tournament, but for the annual National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC), presented by Raytheon. Regional championships started this month and remain ongoing until next month, when ... Read More
Is 2FA Broken, or Just Evolving?
Earlier this year, only days after KnowB4’s chief hacking officer Kevin Mitnick demonstrated how to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA) on CNBC, security researcher Piotr Duszynski warned about a new penetration testing tool that was being used to automate phishing attacks. Of great concern was that the Modlishka tool allowed hackers ... Read More
Fast Pace of Cloud Adoption Leaves Security Lost in the Wind
The pace of change in technology is so fast that businesses are barely able to implement the newest solutions before they are replaced by newer and more advanced technologies. An even greater challenge for enterprises, though, is the rapid pace of cloud adoption. As cloud kicks into high gear, security ... Read More
Gaps in Resources Continue to Plague Cybersecurity
Organizations large and small continue to struggle with cybersecurity, not because they don’t understand the threats but because they are challenged with effective vulnerability management and other gaps in resources. Despite 2018 being dubbed the year of the phish, with a rise in formjacking and other new and emerging threats, enterprises ... Read More
AI Adoption Lags as Hype Trumps Benefits
If it seems as though companies have been dragging their feet with adopting artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, they have. Despite its perceived benefits, a new global study on the current and future use of AI technologies conducted by Protiviti, a global consulting firm, in collaboration with ESI Thoughtlab found that ... Read More
Dispelling the ‘Security as Bad Guy’ Myth
It’s not easy being the “Department of No,” those security people who block access to everything—the ones who force employees to change their passwords and use multi-factor authentication. Security itself isn’t the problem; in fact, it’s an asset. But when people across the organization see security simply as a barrier, ... Read More
Preventing Security Breaches Within Company Search Applications
Far too many organizations found their names in headlines during the first month of 2019. Many came after a security researcher discovered a trove of Elasticsearch database misconfigurations that left data exposed without passwords. In one of the more recent revelations, the State Bank of India failed to secure a ... Read More
Winter’s Cold Won’t Put a Freeze on Phishing
2018 was the year of the phish, and phishing attacks are only growing more sophisticated Despite the bitter temperatures that January brings, fishing enthusiasts will brave the cold and traverse across the ice with saws and augers to drop a line or a spear in hopes of catching something. As ... Read More
