President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly looking for ways to get tougher on cyberattackers. That’s according to U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., Trump’s choice to serve as national security adviser. Speaking to CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday (Dec. 15), Waltz said the government needed to...
Rhode Island’s public benefits system has reportedly been targeted in a ransomware attack. Hackers breached the online system and have threatened to disclose users’ personal information unless they get a payment, Bloomberg News reported Saturday (Dec. 14). This data could be exposed “as early as...
Cyber Monday is the ultimate digital shopping event. But this year, the stakes are higher than ever — and it is all due to artificial intelligence (AI). While 2024’s online holiday sales have already surged north of $10 billion, there’s a different, more nefarious surge...
Cyber breaches, not coal in their stocking, is what businesses are worried about this holiday season. With the news Monday (Nov. 25) that supply chain management software provider Blue Yonder was reportedly been hit by a ransomware attack whose downstream impact affected large enterprise customers like Starbucks and...
March 01, 2024
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently noted that artificial intelligence (AI) could boost online security, a sentiment echoed by many industry experts. AI is transforming how security teams handle cyber threats, making their work faster and more efficient. By analyzing vast amounts of data and identifying complex patterns, AI automates the initial stages of incident investigation. […]
January 18, 2024
The integration of digital technologies, data networks and smart devices within the university ecosystem is transforming campuses into connected entities. And amid this transformative shift there is a pressing need...
October 18, 2021
The steady rise of the global eCommerce market has created a radically new fraud environment, where fraudsters now seek bigger targets, but strike less often. The evolution comes at a time when merchants that have embraced payments innovation are...
March 11, 2021
Among the countless negative impacts of the global coronavirus crisis is a surge in cyberattacks on the global business community. A perfect storm of work-from-home requirements and pandemic-related uncertainty has...
December 15, 2024
The year of the cyberattack is apparently not going to end quietly. For example, a report Friday (Dec. 13) by Ars Technica deals with a yearlong attack that has been stealing login credentials from both “malicious and benevolent” security personnel by infecting them with Trojanized versions of open source GitHub and NPM software. According to […]
December 15, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly looking for ways to get tougher on cyberattackers. That’s according to U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., Trump’s choice to serve as national security adviser. Speaking...
December 15, 2024
Rhode Island’s public benefits system has reportedly been targeted in a ransomware attack. Hackers breached the online system and have threatened to disclose users’ personal information unless they get a...
November 27, 2024
Unusual activity on T-Mobile network devices reportedly alerted the company to a breach. And as Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Nov. 27), it is possible that breach was part of a larger cyber-spy network, raising...
