Since 2010, billions of sensitive files, personal information and account details have been leaked thanks to devastating hacks and damaging breaches. As more sensitive personal data has made its way online, the size and impact of breaches has steadily increased throughout the decade. Attacks ha...
When cartographers first started mapping the world’s oceans, sea monsters and mythical beasts inhabited the places where sailors had yet to explore. Today, just off the continental shelf in the Pacific, we still don’t know much about what’s going on. Just 20 or so miles off the ...
Here are the top cybercrime stats to know about this $1.5 trillion (and growing) industry as we move into 2020 If you’re looking for the most up-to-date cybercrime statistics, you’ve certainly come to the right place. (We really like our numbers around here.) For businesses and organizations, cy...
The key challenge facing security leaders and putting their organizations at risk of breach is misplaced confidence that the abundance of technology investments they have made has strengthened their security posture, according to a study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The study surveyed over 25...
We all love Wi-Fi, except when we can’t connect. We take for granted being able to have wireless access at home and the office, on airplanes, in cafés around the globe, and if we’d be so lucky, floating on the International Space Station. But what if Wi-Fi hadn’t happened? It almost didn’t,...
BitSight, the Standard in Security Ratings, today announced the availability of a new study that evaluates how executives understand and effectively measure their cybersecurity performance and adequately communicate it to the board, senior executives, customers, and critical stakeholders. The Sep...
Microsoft is still the brand most spoofed by cyber criminals attempting to conduct phishing attacks – but fraudsters are increasingly sending phony emails claiming to be the likes of Facebook and Amazon to steal login credentials, financial data and other information from victims. An ana...
Amazon is embarking on a $700 million effort to retrain its U.S. workforce, in a high-profile acknowledgment of the impact of technology and automation on jobs and the workforce. The company says it will spend the money over the next five years to “upskill” roughly 100,000 employees, about one-t...
Video conferencing giant Zoom has published a patch for its Mac client removing a rogue web server from users’ computers that allowed any website to join a video call without permission. News of the vulnerability first emerged Monday after software engineer and security researcher Jonathan Lei...
Some of the biggest names in AI research have laid out a road map suggesting how machine learning can help save our planet and humanity from imminent peril. The report covers possible machine-learning interventions in 13 domains, from electricity systems to farms and forests to climate prediction...