Will 2015 be the year we say goodbye to passwords?
Will 2015 be the year that two-step authentication and non-standard password security methods like biometrics become the norm for forward-thinking businesses?
View ArticleBritish Tribunal Rules Mass Internet Surveillance by GCHQ Was Unlawful
Earlier Friday the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in the UK ruled that the UK's Government Communications Headquarters' (GCHQ) access to information intercepted online by the US National Security...
View ArticleBritish Airways Frequent Flyer Program Grounded
British Airways recently acknowledged that they suffered a security breach impacting their frequent flyer program. This is yet another security breach to impacted loyalty program systems. Earlier this...
View ArticleFrench TV station's systems severely damaged in cyber attack
The French TV station TV5Monde suffered a major cyber-attack on the evening of the 8th of April resulting in all of its eleven channels being taken off air for three hours. At 10:00 p.m. Paris time the...
View ArticleOnce, Twice, Three times a Malady
The Irish author Oscar Wilde famously said "to lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both looks like carelessness". I wonder what Oscar Wilde would think of the English celebrity...
View ArticleUS Secretary of State lays out 5 principles for international cybersecurity
On Monday the United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, gave a wide ranging speech on cybersecurity and international cooperation at the Korea University in South Korea. The speech touched on many...
View ArticleHackers Ground Polish LOT Airline Flights
The Polish national airline, LOT, announced on Sunday that they cancelled 10 flights as a result of the airline's ground computer systems at Warsaw's Okecie airport being subject to attack by hackers....
View ArticleThey Fought the Law, The Law Won
Reading the headlines relating to cyber-security you would not be blamed for thinking we are in a losing battle against relentless foes. The breaches at OPM, Ashley Madison, Target, Sony, and many...
View ArticleEuropean Central Bank Hacked
The European Central Bank (the ECB) announced on Thursday the 24th of July that its website was the victim of a cyber-attack resulting in the security of the site being compromised. The attack resulted...
View ArticleDDoS Attacks Take Down RBS, Ulster Bank, and Natwest Online Systems
The Royal Bank of Scotland group of banks suffered nearly a fifty minute outage to their on-line banking systems today as a result of a Distributed Denial of Service Attack. The banks affected...
View ArticleICANN Website Security Breached
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued a warning to those who registered with its public website that their profile accounts were accessed by an "unauthorized...
View ArticleUbiquiti Networks Victim of $39 Million Social Engineering Attack
Ubiquiti Networks Inc., the San Jose based manufactured of networking high-performance networking technology for service providers and enterprises, announced in its fourth quarter fiscal results that...
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