Pandemic
Ticketmaster Data Breach and Rising Work from Home Scams
In episode 333 of the Shared Security Podcast, Tom and Scott discuss a recent massive data breach at Ticketmaster involving the data of 560 million customers, the blame game between Ticketmaster and ...
Ask Chloé: Response Time Etiquette
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé offers advice to an InfoSec ...
Supply Chains are an Easy Target for Cybercriminals
The supply chain crisis is a reminder that the systems that power the global economy are frighteningly fragile. When COVID-19 hit, it interrupted logistics networks across the planet and caused shortages so ...
Pandemic Surveillance in Canada, Malware-Filled USB Sticks are Back, Kill Switches in New Cars
Canada’s federal government admitted to surveilling its population’s movements during the COVID-19 lock-down by tracking 33 million phones, the FBI warned that a hacker group has been sending malware-laden USB sticks to ...
The Year in Review and 2022 Predictions
In our last weekly episode of the year, we discuss the top cybersecurity and privacy news from 2021, a recap of our previous “predictions”, and what we think we’ll see next year ...
Leveraging the XDR Advantage in the Midst of a Pandemic
The pandemic has changed organizations’ technology priorities profoundly over the last two years. In a study reported on by Business Wire, cybersecurity and hybrid working constituted the top enterprise technology priorities looking ...
Ask Chloé: WFH Best Practices
Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides answers to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé offers advice to an InfoSec ...
Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: CDC Model and FS/ISAC
It is very ironic to see that, on August 18, 2021, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) announced the formation of a Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analysis, see CDC ...
Cybersecurity Lessons from the Election: Human Behavior
There have been a number of recent articles in the popular press suggesting that behavioral science can serve to explain people’s responses to COVID-19 and indicate how individuals might be persuaded to ...
Hackers Calling Fair Game on Healthcare Institutions
The year 2019 saw big consumer brands get hacked: from Facebook to Capital One, every day people were urged to double-check their bank accounts and credit card statements to ensure their information ...