As per another Black Hat talk by a reporter: “IT industry guilty of ‘lack of imagination’ in failure to anticipate cyber-attack evolution” Kim Zetter gave a talk at BlackHat USA on August 11 about how the new attacks by cyber adversaries have caught the security community flat-footed. Zetter told Black Hat USA: “[Operation Aurora] was … Read more
What do hotels and travel have to do with cybersecurity? Firstly when you’re out of home base, the profile of what you do online is different. Similar to home cybersecurity and office cybersecurity is different. When you are away from home what happens? You don’t have control over the network , WiFi or other connections. … Read more
Is cybersecurity a problem to be dealt with or is it to be managed? (these questions were slightly changed from the presentation at RSA Conference in Asia – https://www.rsaconference.com/apj/agenda/how-to-tell-the-right-cyber-story-to-executives-and-board-members Ian Yip CEO of Avertro – he brings up some good questions. Let us delve a bit deeper into this question. Why should we care … Read more
Ransomware is bad i.e. your files are encrypted – what should be done? At this point it is too late – the computer and or files are encrypted and the only way to recover them is to decrypt or restore from backup. (THIS IS WHY A BACKUP IS SO IMPORTANT). There are some possible … Read more
We are inundated with constant headlines Thousands and sometimes millions of records stolen by hackers(the bad guys). In fact the worst breaches are health records as in this article at Forbes. “The number of annual health data breaches increased 70% to 344 over the past seven years, with 75% of the breached, lost, or stolen … Read more
