Author Archives: conrad

The FBI has warned state officials to boost their security, since state election websites in Arizona and Illinois experienced hack-related shutdowns earlier this summer. More than 30 states have provisions for online voting. The FBI alerted Arizona officials in June … Continue reading →

Transparency has its limits! Some of the most powerful espionage tools created by the National Security Agency’s elite group of hackers have been revealed in recent days, a development that could pose severe consequences for the spy agency’s operations and … Continue reading →

Insider threats are behind the sharp increases over the past 18 months in the percentage of organizations that have experienced loss of company data.  According to the Ponemon Institute, three out of every four organizations (76%) have been hit over … Continue reading →

Australia has set up a cyber-intelligence unit to identify terrorism financing, money laundering and financial fraud online, the government said on Tuesday, because of “unprecedented” threats to national security. The measure expands on a major platform of conservative Prime Minister … Continue reading →

Though the police here have released little information about Gavin Long, a deeper portrait is beginning to emerge, based on a large trail left online. Many of these digital breadcrumbs — web posts, YouTube videos and podcasts — are tied … Continue reading →

Last year, CIO, CSO and PricewaterhouseCoopers released a new Global State of Information Security survey, which polled more than 10,000 executives from 127 countries about IT security. The results were a mixed bag, with security incidents up 38% over 2014 … Continue reading →

In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, Dr. Johnson and Miami colleagues searched for pro-Islamic State posts each day from mid-2014 until August 2015, mining mentions of beheadings and blood baths in multiple languages on Vkontakte, a Russia-based … Continue reading →

A water and electricity authority in the State of Michigan, Lansing’s Board of Water & Light, needed a week to recover from a ransomware attack that hit its enterprise systems recently. The successful phishing attack on its corporate systems, which … Continue reading →

Investigators suspect that malicious software code allowing hackers to withdraw the money could have been installed several weeks before the incident. Malware gave hackers an inside look at the bank’s systems. The hackers appeared to have stolen Bangladesh Bank’s credentials … Continue reading →

Experian’s just released third annual Data Breach Industry Forecast report for 2016 predicts that big hacks will continue to grab the headlines, but small breaches will cause “a lot more damage.” “Whether it’s a true malicious insider, or just employee … Continue reading →