It’s been a record-breaking couple of weeks, and not in a good way. Cybercrime records are ominous warnings, not cause for celebration. Security vendor Akamai reported what it called the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack it had ever mitigated against a European customer. That attack came just a couple of…

In an era of rampant discord on just about everything, one of the few things people do seem to agree on is that young children ought to be kept safe. Everybody wants that, or at least says they do. But as usual, there’s saying and then there’s doing. And according…

You can’t say you haven’t been warned about software supply chain attacks. You also can’t say nobody gave you any advice on how to make your organization more resistant to them. Because we are now awash in warnings and advice about them. That’s a good thing. As cyber criminals have…

Ransomware attacks that cause only financial damage seem almost like the good old days. Because it’s no longer just money, intellectual property, or privacy that’s at stake. The threats are physical, affecting health and safety. In recent years attackers have increasingly focused on organizations devoted to critical infrastructure (CI) —…

Gasoline, groceries, cars, and housing aren’t the only things that cost more these days. In the online world where virtually all businesses live, the global average cost of a data breach is at an all-time high of $4.35 million, up 12.7% in the past two years, according to IBM Security’s…

In the world of emergency alerts, we’ve come a long way from the iconic “Emergency! Everybody to get from street!” issued multiple times on the streets of the fictional Gloucester Island by Russian Lt. …

If you hadn’t noticed yet, your modern car is just another digital device. Actually, a device run by dozens to more than 100 other devices — sensors and control modules called electronic control units. They monitor or control everything from oil pressure to airflow, coolant, engine operation, the throttle, brakes…

Nothing made by humans is perfect. Even the stuff we create to protect and fix the imperfect stuff isn’t perfect. We all know that — why else would the process of crafting legislation that yields the laws we’re all supposed to live by be sardonically labeled “the sausage factory”? Same…

This isn’t one of those good-news, bad-news stories about cyber vulnerabilities. It’s more like bad news and a little less-bad news. Indeed, there isn’t much encouraging in a recent report from network monitoring firm SynSaber on vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICSs) other than that things could always be worse…