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Cybersecurity is for the C-suite, ‘not just the IT crowd’

At least according to Peter Singer, Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution.  Writing in Fortune, Singer says many things that won’t make him very popular.   A sampling: 97% of the Fortune 500 companies have been hacked and likely the other 3% too, they just don’t know it. […]

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Researchers Find 600,000 Servers Use Duplicate Encryption Key

PC World is reporting that researchers, looking for servers that were susceptible to the FREAK attack, found that some manufacturers have taken a shortcut when it comes to security. First, FREAK is an attack that allows attackers to force a encryption session between a user and a server to use a very weak 512 bit […]

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Ransonware Going After Small Business and Gamers

Dark Reading is reporting that due to the success of Ransomware, the sophistication of the attacks is growing.  As a reminder, ransomware infects a computer and encrypts the files on it.  If you pay the ransom, the attacker will usually give you the key to decrypt your files.  Ransonware is not very particular and can […]

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