Category: Security

Over the last year, there have been several jaw-dropping fines for privacy breaches. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fined a social media giant $5 billion, and across the pond, a major airline was fined 183 million pounds for a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) breach. Regardless of…

It all starts with a PDF attachment. An employee doesn’t detect the signs of a social engineering attack, and so they open the attachment on their work-issued laptop, not knowing that their computer has local administrator access. Invisible malware then edits the laptop’s registry and erases the audit trails as…

Although the definition is ever-evolving due to the influx of new technologies and widespread convergence, in general, the internet of things (IoT) is a massive infrastructure comprising countless interrelated computing devices. We encounter the IoT in a myriad of forms as we go about our daily routine, from sensors and…

Phishing remains one of the top threats to enterprise IT. According to a recent Akamai report, “Phishing Is No Longer Just Email: It’s Social,” phishing is responsible for as many as 93 percent of security breaches. Email phishing attacks continue to rank highest among attack methods, but criminals are now…