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The Death Star’s Demise: Can You Trust Your IoT Vendors?
It was 1977, and soon-to-be-fans were greeted with a masterful score and scrolling text. Darth Vader and Princess Leia share the screen in those opening moments, and the Star Wars universe was ...
VERT at the Movies: Cybergeddon
While I was teaching, one of my students asked if I had seen Cybergeddon, a film distributed by Yahoo! in 2012. I had not, so I decided it would be fun for ...
Lessons from Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 13
As I mentioned previously, this year, I’m going back to school. Not to take classes but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a decade ...
Lessons from Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 12
As I had mentioned previously, this year, I’m going back to school. Not to take classes, but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a ...
Lessons from Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 11
As I had mentioned previously, this year, I’m going back to school. Not to take classes, but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a ...
National Poetry Month – Cybersecurity Edition
April is National Poetry Month, a time when we can celebrate poets and their craft. To join in the celebrations, we at the State of Security asked employees at Tripwire and in ...
Why It’s Important to Have a Customer Community in the World of Cybersecurity
In an ever-evolving security world, we to need to secure more with even fewer resources. While the cybersecurity skills gap increases, leaving “350,000 U.S. cybersecurity jobs unfilled yearly,” it is vital to ...
11 Respected Providers of IT Security Training
We at The State of Security are committed to helping aspiring information security professionals to reach their full potential. Towards that end, we compiled a two–part list of the top 10 highest ...
How Do You Protect Your Children When They Go Online?
When you are thinking about a very special holiday gift for your kid, one of the first things that spring to mind is a smartphone, tablet or laptop. It’s common knowledge that ...
Computer Infected with 6 High-Profile Viruses Surpasses $1M in Auction
A Windows laptop infected with six high-profile computer viruses has surpassed a value of one million dollars in public auction bids. For a project called “The Persistence of Chaos,” contemporary internet artist ...
