Tomorrow, March 13 marks the first day of the SXSW Interactive conference. Over the next five days more than 50,000 of tech and digital’s best and brightest will converge on Austin and talk about emerging technology, digital creativity and all things inherent with the two.Cyber security promises to be a key issue this year, especially [...]
As experts weighed in this week with their predictions on security trends that will shape the coming year, the growth of mobile payments and mobile banking quickly emerged as a popular topic of focus.Steve Weisman of USA Today shared his predictions on top cyber trends to come in 2015, among them, the concern that as [...]
The UK minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, announced new cyber security initiatives taking place in Britain to make it a safer place to do business, reported Mike Hine with Infosecurity Magazine. Hine broke down the 24-page document into different initiatives, including:Developing 13 cyber security “clusters” around the countryProviding financial assistance for universities to [...]
This week, the United States Postal Service (USPS) became 2014’s latest data breach victim after a cyber attack targeting the organization’s computer systems resulted in the loss of employee information.Devlin Barrett of the Wall Street Journal reported, “More than 800,000 people, including employees, top directors and regulators, could be affected by a computer systems breach [...]
Ebola has caught the attention of consumers, the media and now cyber criminals. According to ZDNet’s Violet Blue, the United States of Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) sent an alert for consumers to be on watch for email scams involving Ebola news as phishing bait. The alert stated, “Phishing emails may contain links that direct [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released cyber security guidelines for medical devices this week, recommending that manufacturers consider and submit cybersecurity risks associated with the medical device of their making and provide ways to mitigate risk via operating system and software updates.USA Today’s Elizabeth Weise reported that the Director of Emergency Preparedness at [...]
The story that filled this week's cyber security headlines involved a leak of nearly five million Gmail addresses and passwords. Alice Truong of Fast Company, described the leak saying, “A database reportedly containing 4.93 million Google usernames and passwords was uploaded late Tuesday to a Russian bitcoin forum, according to reports from Russian news outlets. [...]
In this week’s news, there has been a potential breach of multiple major financial institutions. Experts are analyzing the situation in an effort to provide consumers, businesses and other financial institutions with security solutions.Paula Mejia of Newsweek reported “hackers have stolen gigabytes of sensitive data from JPMorgan Chase and at least four other banks in [...]
More than 2,000 consumers were surveyed by Intercede and the results are in: many are sharing passwords with friends, family and colleagues. In fact, 51 percent of those surveyed admitted to sharing usernames and passwords with others, reported Help Net Security.In addition to sharing passwords, more than half of the respondents are in the good [...]
Government concerns about the nation’s cyber security have been making headlines recently. The latest? It lies in the energy sector, following a number of attacks.Alan Neuhauser of US News shared the growing concerns of the energy industry: “Cyber security leapt onto the list of the top five concerns for U.S. electric utilities this year, yet [...]
