To “hyperspecialize” or be a security generalist. That was the topic of this week’s Task Force Radio episode. Both host George Rettas and guest Rafal Los, the founder of Rabbit 77 agreed that people a…
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Cyber Security Is Integral To Business Continuity Planning
Communications are critical for an organization when an incident occurs. Threat actors will also use a disruption to business operations as an opportunity to spread misinformation. Steps are available…
How To Keep Remote Workers Secure During COVID-19 And Other Crises
The headlines have been screaming about Zoom bombing lately, and it was just a matter of time before hackers took advantage of a remote workforce to infiltrate video conference calls. There has also b…
Incident Of The Week: Finastra’s Ransomware Attack
Finastra reported that it detected a ransomware attack on its servers, last Friday. The company followed by acknowledging it had detected ransomware activity – but that customer and employee data rema…
How The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Affecting The Cyber Security Industry
Arguably, the cyber security industry has never had a more important role to play than keeping mission-critical organizations and agencies safe from cyber attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Incident Of The Week: Health and Human Services Hit with Security Breach
On March 15th, the HHS’s network security system detected a sharp increase in activity. Over several hours, hackers tried to overload the department’s servers with millions of requests. The hackers we…
Monitoring And Preparing For Emerging Coronavirus-Related Cyber Security Threats
The coronavirus is not just a global health crisis – increasingly, it is becoming a cyber security threat as well as more organizations move employees to remote work. The federal government issued an…
How Public-Private Partnerships Are Working To Combat Cyber Threats
We are starting to see “tremendous collaboration” between government, the private sector to pool resources and work on finding a vaccine for COVID-19—but communicating those efforts needs to improve t…
Security Standards For 5G
Gartner predicts that the 5G enterprise IoT endpoint installed base will more than triple between 2020 and 2021, from 3.5 million units in 2020 to 11.4 million units in 2021. By 2023, the enterprise 5…
Incident of the Week: Virgin Media Exposes Data of 900,000 People
The company attributed the hacking to a member of staff who had “incorrectly configured” the database, and promised it’s building a specific online service which will allow individuals to find out if…