Securing Your Cyberspace
Scenario Harriet Downs had it all: a great job, a loving husband, and two beautiful children. She was an up-and-coming programmer at Goldman Sachs for the company’s AI trading bots, on the fast track to management. She, her husband, Steve and the kids had just moved into a beautiful new house in Sevenoaks. Life was […]
For one filed cybersecurity professional position on the market in 2020, there will be at least three vacant positions. Often overworked, underappreciated and frequently blamed for a single failure and unacknowledged for successes, cybersecurity professionals tend to become ‘alien gem’. Our reality: almost anybody can become a cybercriminal In mid-May 2020, multiple supercomputers in European […]
We are not denying the seriousness of Covid19 possible implications. Instead, we are looking behind this transitory pandemic smokescreen that hides potentially much bigger global problem – progressing cyberwarfare. Cyberwarfare, what it is? Like with many other terms, there is still worldwide debate if cyberwarfare exists. For those convinced that such a war exists, the […]
Most botnets are currently deployed for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks but can also be used for delivering spyware, email spam, phishing, ‘click fraud’, stilling confidential information or the bitcoin mining. Looming economic crisis The world has changed dramatically in the three months since our last update of the World Economic Outlook in January, warns […]
What the cybercrime, cyberwarfare and cyberterrorism have in common with the corona pandemic? At least one thing: all of them are global threats that cannot be fought individually but cooperatively. The Coronavirus is hitting hard on the world’s economy, creating a high volume of uncertainty within organisations. Cynet has revealed new data, showing that the […]
A segmentation of the Information Technology and Operational Technology networks would not be able to protect critical infrastructure if humans remain incapacitated and continue making errors. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) recently reported that it had responded to the ransomware attack on a natural gas facility, forcing it to shut it down for […]
The scenario We are witnessing increasingly aggressive email scams targeting all kinds of Internet users who utilise security cameras. For example, it was recently reported that 1,600 scam emails of this type were intercepted between 2 and 3 January this year. Being a one of still not sufficiently secured the Internet of Thing devices, these […]
There are two conflicting cybercrime regulations in the making, one national and the other one international. Which one deserves to be supported and why should you know this? National: Hack back Bill The US Congress has been considering a law relating to cybersecurity defence named as ‘Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act’ (ACDC). This proposed bill […]
The Business Insider recently announced that there are about 10 billion connected IoT devices in 2018 and predicted that there will be 64 billion of these devices in use by 2026. The vast majority of these devices are or will be connected to the edge computing networks. But how secure it is? Computing on […]
The survey concludes that although nearly 80% of respondents believe software supply chain attacks have the potential to become one of the biggest cyber threats over the next three years. Few organizations are, however, prepared to mitigate the risks. Is, then, a third party betraying us or we are just inattentive? This issue must, anyway, […]