Social media poses special risks for minors. Data scientist David Stier, who has discovered leaks of minors' personally identifiable information on Instagram, shares insights on how social media companies should better protect PII.
Security education for employees is worthless unless it's highly targeted, says Angela Sasse, a professor of human-centered security at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, who offers tips.
Based on the threats and tactics unleashed in 2020, cybersecurity promises to be a top-of-mind business risk for the next president to manage. Bill Swearingen of IronNet Cybersecurity reflects on a virtual roundtable discussion about what to expect over the next four years.
Criminals continue to rely on automated bots for phishing attacks, web scraping, credential stuffing and more. But while gangs previously needed to amass large, powerful botnets to be effective, now they need relatively few devices, says Group-IB CTO Dmitry Volkov.
It took 100 days for the world to record its first 1 million COVID-19 infections. A week ago, 1 million cases were added in just over one day. In advance of the Thanksgiving break, pandemic expert Regina Phelps shares insights on the virus, testing and how soon we might see vaccines.
Glen Hymers, CISO and head of data protection at the U.K.-based charity Save the Children International, says adapting to a cloud-first environment requires extensive security measures, including automated monitoring.
IoT devices and applications often use a range of components, including third-party libraries and open source code. Steve Springett, who created Dependency-Track, explains how to reduce risk and keep third-party code up to date.
Cybersecurity leaders are not immune to the forces of digital transformation. In fact, Nicolas Casimir, CISO EMEA with Zscaler, says the role is forever changed by the business and technologies evolutions we have seen in 2020.
With COVID-19 as a backdrop and 5G on the horizon, what will be 2021's top issues in identifying, protecting and defending against attacks across a dramatically expanded threat landscape? This latest CEO/CISO panel addresses the challenges of the new year.
The good news: U.S. election security measures seem to have worked. The bad news: Disinformation and misinformation campaigns continue. Tom Kellermann, who served as a cybersecurity adviser to President Obama, offers advice for President-elect Joe Biden and others on protecting critical infrastructure.
As the healthcare sector prepares for the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, intensifying the attention to supply chain cybersecurity is critical, says Michael McNeil, senior vice president and CISO of McKesson Corp., which distributes pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.
The Cyber Risk Institute this week is releasing a new version of its "Cyber Profile" risk assessment framework for the financial services industry that includes expanded information on third-party risk and cloud security. Institute founder, Josh Magri, describes the updates.
COVID-19 accelerated everything else digital; why not fraud, too? In this latest CEO/CISO panel, cybersecurity leaders talk frankly about the pace and scale of new fraud schemes from business email compromise to card not present to insider risk.
The pandemic has been an accelerant for digital payments and digital payment fraud globally. Krista Tedder of Javelin and Stu Bradley of SAS discuss recent findings.
Ninety-four percent of cyber threats originate in the inbox, and increasingly fraudsters are plying their trade through impersonation attacks. Mariana Pereira of Darktrace discusses the role machine learning can play in repelling these strikes.
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