Valerie Plame
cybersecurity
Valerie Plame: The Spy Who Came in to the Code
Since her cover was famously blown, former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame is more openly protecting the country's digital assets. In May, the author and anti-nuclear activist joined the ...Full Article
U.S. Can Learn a Lot from EU About Cybersecurity Legislation
Violence. Human rights. Universal healthcare. Cybersecurity initiatives. You may ask yourself what these four things have in common. Well, aside from being hot topics of political debate, they are ...Full Article
MOOCs Teach IT Lessons Before Summer Ends
As full-time students' thoughts return to classrooms and lesson plans, IT professionals will find a slew of new online educational offerings designed to augment and expand their skills. An ...Full Article
Hackers Carjack Jeep in IoT Nightmare
Two hackers successfully took control of a Jeep Cherokee as it hurtled along a highway at 70 miles per hour, turning an Internet of Things nightmare into reality – ...Full Article
Are Breaches Killing Flash?
Mozilla added the Flash Player Plugin to its roster of blocked add-ons, after yet another security alert from developer Adobe and following a public call for the end of ...Full Article
How to Protect Your Data from Third-Party Breaches
The December 2013 Target data breach that compromised the credit card information of 40 million customers was the first of many wake-up calls to organizations, bringing home the damage ...Full Article
The Day the Networks Died: Attack or Glitch for NYSE, United?
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) resumed trading at 3:13 pm EST today, after an "internal technical issue" suspended operations for almost four hours. Only three days after HackingTeam ...Full Article
Manta Beats Bots with Automated Protection
As a destination site where about 30 million small and midsize companies market themselves to each other and consumers, Manta is attractive to another form of traffic: web scrapers ...Full Article
Slam the Door Against Insider Threats
When a banker falls behind on the mortgage, a physician gets arrested for driving under the influence, or a contractor is working on a sensitive federal construction site under ...Full Article
To Improve Cybersecurity, Fire Some CEOs
Despite the amazing number of cybersecurity breaches, so far the Target CEO appears to have been the only one to pay the price. While we hear some calls for ...Full Article
