Category Archives: Cybersecurity Memo – Insiders Edition

“Spooky action at a distance” is how Albert Einstein described one of the key principles of quantum mechanics: entanglement.  Entanglement occurs when two particles become related such that they can coordinate their properties instantly even across a galaxy. Think of … Continue reading →

Transportation Security Administration and aviation industry employees will be subjected to heightened electronic surveillance following several incidents involving insiders who abused their badges to traffic guns, federal officials announced Monday. Among the actions that kick in immediately are random passenger-like … Continue reading →

Wikimedia and other groups sued the U.S. National Security Agency on Tuesday and challenged one of its mass surveillance programs under the contention that the agency violates Americans’ privacy. In addition, the groups argue that the program would actually have … Continue reading →

IT security professionals around the globe believe the system of trust established by cryptographic keys and digital certificates, as well as the security of trillions of dollars of the world’s economy, is at the breaking point. For the first time, … Continue reading →

Whether it is business or personal, more and more human interaction is happening in an online environment. But, how do you know if you can trust the person on the other end of the connection? The simple answer is most … Continue reading →

Companies must also address the non-technological tools of cybersecurity. For example, current and former employees are the most frequently-cited culprits in cyber breaches. That’s why companies at the forefront of tackling the problems are going beyond a compliance checklist approach … Continue reading →

An international hacking ring has stolen as much as $1 billion from more than 100 banks in 30 countries including Russia, the U.S. and China in what could be one of the biggest banking breaches ever. Hackers used phishing schemes … Continue reading →

“We discovered the scope and damage of these operations during investigations of what we thought were separate cases,” said Stuart McClure, CEO of Cylance. Through custom and publicly available tools that use, among other methods, SQL Injection, spear phishing, water … Continue reading →

An FBI “Flash” released earlier this week provides a fascinating window into the recent super-hacking attack that could be considered a harbinger of next-generation cyber-crime and cyber-warfare “The malware used in the attack, which has been described by a Sony … Continue reading →