Most crimes, especially most cybercrimes, are crimes of opportunity. And faced with a proliferation of simple yet effective attacks from cybercriminals leveraging scalable tactics powered by innovations like generative artificial intelligence (AI), it is the little changes across an enterprise’s defense program that can make a...
Hackers from North Korea swiped close to $400 million in cryptocurrencies across at least seven cyberattacks that targeted investment firms and centralized exchanges, with 58% being ether and just 20% being bitcoin, according to the latest data in a Chainalysis report. In 2017, bitcoin comprised...
If the saying is that there is nothing new under the sun, only new ways to say it, then let’s extend the sentiment to payments. There’s nothing new under the sun. There are just new ways to steal it. The fact remains that technology has...
The cyber security industry in Massachusetts is dealing with a shortage of professionals, which makes the state vulnerable to hackers. According to a report on MassLive.com, President of Bay Path University Dr. Carol Leary noted the lack of untrained professionals is becoming a problem. “We have...
June 20, 2017
FindFace started as a futuristic social technology for identifying strangers by scanning their faces with a smartphone camera. Two years later, the facial recognition technology is the best in the world (yep, even better than Google’s) and is being used for public safety, law enforcement and fraud prevention through cybersecurity. Of course, facial recognition has driven […]
June 20, 2017
Hitting the ground running with the next big thing in services or products or payments can be a thrill, but for startups with blinders on, ignoring cyber risk can be...
June 13, 2017
In the early days of the internet, passwords were relatively friction-free for one reason: there weren’t a lot of places on the internet to use them, so remembering a slew...
February 18, 2024
The Chinese government’s attempts to virtually attack U.S. infrastructure have reportedly reached new levels. That’s according to FBI Director Christopher Wray, who said Sunday (Feb. 18) that such efforts were happening on “a scale greater than we’d seen before,” calling them a defining threat to national security, per a Wall Street Journal report. According to […]
January 14, 2022
Hackers from North Korea swiped close to $400 million in cryptocurrencies across at least seven cyberattacks that targeted investment firms and centralized exchanges, with 58% being ether and just 20%...
May 11, 2018
The cyber security industry in Massachusetts is dealing with a shortage of professionals, which makes the state vulnerable to hackers. According to a report on MassLive.com, President of Bay Path University...
January 29, 2018
Coincheck, one of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, will reimburse customers up to ¥46.3 billion ($426 million) due to a hack it suffered last week. According to The Wall Street Journal,...
