Verizon’s DBIR finds that 82% of data breaches logged in 2021 involved a "human element" such as falling for phishing, re-use of stolen credentials, insider malfeasance or simply causing a configuration error.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
NSA director of cybersecurity says ransom payments are more difficult to process due to lack of access to assorted banking options, and inability to purchase necessary technology to set up the infrastructure for new ransomware campaigns.
Bad bot traffic makes up half of all internet activity, and is nearly double that of "good bots" that perform legitimate functions such as indexing and automated responses.
Swiss banking secrecy laws began to see significant erosion in 2018, and are facing another substantial blow as the country's government is proposing to allow its spy agency to monitor financial transactions.
Study finds RTB adtech systems share online behavior data 294 billion times per day in the U.S. and 197 billion times per day in Europe. Average internet user in the US is exposed 747 times each day; in Europe it is 376 times per day.
While the CFAA and all of its troubled language remains in place, the DOJ has announced that security researchers who do not have malicious intent do not have anything to fear anymore.
Privacy advocates were upset with the bank data decision, but were also handed a win by the Supreme Court with its ruling that the national government could not go ahead with a plan to collect the biometric data of cell phone users.
Mee6 is a very popular Discord bot that automates a wide variety of functions. A compromise led to an assortment of associated NFT services seeing spam and hacking attempts.
India’s new CERT-In order applies to VPN providers, virtual private server (VPS) providers, data centers and cloud service providers. These services are required to hold and turn over a variety of customer data.
The threat of a coup from the Conti ransomware gang is almost certainly hollow, but it showcases the boldness with which these groups are operating even after international law enforcement operations took out previous line-crossers.
