My Take
SHARED INTEL: Coming soon — ‘passwordless authentication’ as a de facto security practice
As a tradeoff for enjoying our digital lives, we’ve learned to live with password overload and even tolerate two-factor authentication.But now, at long last, we’re on the brink of eliminating passwords altogether, ...
MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems
The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on ...
MY TAKE: How ‘credential stuffing’ is being deployed to influence elections, steal Covid-19 relief
What do wildfires and credential stuffing have in common?Related: Automated attacks leverage big dataFor several years now, both have flared up and caused harm at the fringes of population centers and our ...
MY TAKE: Lessons learned from the summer of script kiddies hacking Twitter, TikTok
Graham Ivan Clark, Onel de Guzman and Michael Calce. These three names will go down in the history of internet commerce, right alongside Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.Related: How ‘Zero ...
MY TAKE: Even Google CEO Sundar Pichai agrees that it is imperative to embed ethics into AI
It took a global pandemic and the death of George Floyd to put deep-seated social inequities, especially systemic racism, front and center for intense public debate.Related: Will ‘blockchain’ lead to more equitable ...
MY TAKE: Remote classes, mobile computing heighten need for a security culture in K-12 schools
Parents have long held a special duty to protect their school-aged children from bad actors on the Internet.Related: Mock attacks help schools defend themselvesNow COVID-19 has dramatically and permanently expanded that parental ...
MY TAKE: Technologists, privacy advocates point to flaws in the Apple-Google COVID-19 tracing app
If the devastating health and economic ramifications weren’t enough, individual privacy is also in the throes of being profoundly and permanently disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. The tech giants are partnering on ...
MY TAKE: COVID-19 cements the leadership role CISOs must take to secure company networks
Chief Information Security Officers were already on the hot seat well before the COVID-19 global pandemic hit, and they are even more so today.Related: Why U.S. cybersecurity policy needs to match societal ...
MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene
Long before COVID-19, some notable behind-the-scenes forces were in motion to elevate cybersecurity to a much higher level.Related: How the Middle East has advanced mobile security regulationsOver the past couple of decades, ...
MY TAKE: Why COVID-19 ‘digital distancing’ is every bit as vital as ‘social distancing’
As coronavirus-themed cyber attacks ramp up, consumers and companies must practice digital distancing to keep themselves protected.Related: Coronavirus scams leverage emailAs we get deeper into dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, the need ...
