Tag: security

January 15, 2020

In a tweet late Tuesday, President Trump criticized Apple for refusing “to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements.” Trump was specifically referring to a locked iPhone that belonged to a Saudi airman who killed […]

December 27, 2019

Fraud is one of the most prominent threats facing the UK economy, costing a reported £130 billion each year. Due to the relentless activities of cyber criminals, businesses, and consumers alike are suffering from the devastating effects of fraud. In […]

October 29, 2019

Enterprises rolling out IoT devices are justifiably excited about the opportunity to gain insight from the data that these remote sensors can provide. But at the same time, companies are worried about the security risks that come along with an […]

September 13, 2019

Are employees keeping you in the dark? The answer is: Yes, they are. If you’re an IT pro, security specialist, c-level executive, manager or leader in your organization (and if you’re reading this, you almost certainly are), people in your […]

August 30, 2019

Hundreds of dental offices across the US have been crippled by a ransomware attack targeting a remote data backup service offered by a third-party. PerCSoft and Digital Dental Record (DDR) — the two Wisconsin-based software companies — provide a solution […]

August 26, 2019

Web hosting provider Hostinger has forcibly reset all of its client passwords as a “precautionary measure” following an unauthorized access of its customer database, which contains some 14 million users. “During this incident, an unauthorized third party has gained access […]

August 21, 2019

Box has always had to balance the idea of sharing content broadly while protecting it as it moved through the world, but the more you share, the more likely something can go wrong, such as misconfigured shared links that surfaced […]

August 12, 2019

The majority of threats (89%) blocked by a security service developed by telecommunications firm Telefonica in collaboration with security firms McAfee and Allot are phishing-related. Earlier this year, a report by security firm Sophos revealed that phishing attacks aimed at […]

July 23, 2019

Most corporations suffer from the delusion that a small team of cybersecurity experts buried within the bowels of IT (or elsewhere) can protect the other 99%+ of the company’s workforce from exposing business-sensitive or business-critical information to malicious external actors. […]

July 17, 2019

Security is a top priority today for businesses large and small as they tackle a strategic transformation to digital-first. According to recent research from our colleagues at LastPass, tackling the security challenge is a multi-faceted problem – IT leaders’ top […]