Employee turnover is a fact of life. It’s hard enough to make sure proprietary information and sensitive data are properly protected when a person works for the company.
Tony Bradley | 02 Feb | Read more
President Obama called for strengthening cybersecurity and privacy protection in his State of the Union speech Tuesday. Most security experts agree with the President's overall goals, but warn of potential unintended consequences that could do more harm than good.
Tony Bradley | 23 Jan | Read more
Frequent fliers get all the perks - and all the attention from cyber criminals, apparently. United Airlines, American Airlines, and Park-n-Fly have all reported breaches in the past few days, pointing to an emerging trend of attacks targeted specifically at travelers.
Tony Bradley | 20 Jan | Read more
There have been so many major data breaches over the past year or two that it's hardly even news anymore when millions of customer accounts are compromised. We've become jaded, and just expect that attackers will find a way to penetrate our networks and steal our data. The reality, however, is that there is one simple thing companies--and individuals--can do that will prevent the vast majority of data breaches: two-factor authentication.
Tony Bradley | 20 Jan | Read more
Massive, high-profile data breaches pockmarked 2014, culminating in the bizarre events surrounding the hack of Sony Pictures--allegedly by North Korea in retaliation for the politically incorrect stoner comedy The Interview. That's a tough act to follow, but I'm sure 2015 will make an effort. I spoke with security experts to find out what we have to look forward to.
Tony Bradley | 15 Jan | Read more
While the buzz around the Sony hack has shifted to the impact on free speech, and terrorist threats against movie theaters that dare to show the movie The Interview, there are many layers to the Sony debacle. One element that made for salacious headlines immediately following the hack, but has since faded from the spotlight, was the hackers' dumping of company emails onto the Web.
Tony Bradley | 24 Dec | Read more
Watch out for SoakSoak, a new malware threat that has compromised more than 100,000 Wordpress websites and led to more than 11,000 domains' being blacklisted by Google. Wordpress is a hugely popular and widely used Web publishing platform, so it's important to understand how the SoakSoak malware works, and what you can do to prevent your own Wordpress site from being compromised.
Tony Bradley | 20 Dec | Read more
Organizations may tolerate, accept or embrace BYOD--letting employees use their own mobile devices for business purposes--but they all struggle with the blurred line of protecting company data without infringing on individual privacy. Box recently announced two initiatives--Box Trust, and Box for EMM--that promise to give Box's customers and their employees some peace of mind when using BYOD. Box currently serves more than 27 million users across 240,000 businesses--including 99 percent of the Fortune 500.
Tony Bradley | 19 Dec | Read more
You wouldn't think privacy and security were platform-specific, but data released by cloud storage service iDrive today seems to say that iPhone and Android users differ in this way as well as many others.
Tony Bradley | 13 Dec | Read more
During the holiday season it's not unusual for both UPS and FedEx to show up at the Bradley household on an almost daily basis. We receive order confirmation and shipping notification emails for each delivery - and that's just what cybercriminals are counting on. It's just one of the many ways they exploit the holiday season to target more victims.
Tony Bradley | 09 Dec | Read more
The data breaches of 2014 have yet to fade into memory, and we already have 2015 looming. Experian's 2015 Data Breach Industry Forecast gives us much to anticipate, and I've asked security experts to weigh in with their thoughts for the coming year as well.
Tony Bradley | 04 Dec | Read more
Regin, the latest malware threat, is also one of the more mysterious ones. When Symantec unveiled details of the new cyber espionage campaign last weekend, its researchers described it as a highly sophisticated threat with an unprecedented level of technical competence.
Tony Bradley | 26 Nov | Read more
It's been a rough year for businesses when it comes to data breaches. A new report from ThreatTrack Security suggests that things will improve dramatically in 2015--that is, unless the survey participants are overstating the efficacy of their network defenses. It's important for you to take steps to secure your own data to make sure you're protected either way.
Tony Bradley | 24 Nov | Read more
The DarkHotel cyberespionage campaign making headlines now is not your typical advanced persistent threat (APT). According to a report released by Kaspersky Lab, a couple of key elements make DarkHotel unique among cyberespionage threats.
Tony Bradley | 13 Nov | Read more
A mixture of excitement and danger. No, I'm not talking about a theme-park thrill ride, I'm talking about the future of technology as seen by users surveyed for Intel Security's Safeguarding the Future of Digital America in 2025. Here's a peek at some of the things people think will happen within the next decade:
Tony Bradley | 08 Nov | Read more