Cindy

Approximately one-third of successful cyber attacks are accomplished via the compromise of an insecure vendor. This is, to use a technical term, absolutely nuts. Imagine that you’re a large company. You’re doing everything right, in terms of information security. You’ve got three kinds of firewalls, a stable of well-paid analysts, and all of your critical … Read more

Credit cards + banks = security worries. False. Face up to reality and understand that equation – which most of us think sums up the present reality of our insecurities – is horribly false. We have gigantic security worries. It’s just not banks that are the problem. Big financial institutions, big online retailers, big bricks … Read more

You have heard before that ransomware has gotten to be near an epidemic menace. Listen up: things have gotten lots worse. Palo Alto Networks now has now has found a successful ransomware attack on Mac OS X. Read that again. Apple, the company thought by many users to be impervious to the many diseases that afflict Windows users, … Read more