One might think that stopping malware, phishing, and a whole host of email-borne attacks was akin to stopping rain during a hurricane or snow during a blizzard. It is ubiquitous and relentless. And despite promising advances in technology, so much malware still gets through cyberdefenses that the proverbial last line of defense, the end user,…
Buzzwords are the lifeblood of technology: think cloud, cyber, app, virtualization and the ever-popular “things,” to name just a few. One of the newer additions to the vocabulary is “fog” — as in fog computing. It does not take too much imagination to suspect that fog could be a variant of cloud. Indeed, fog is…
Government operators can put private organizations in a bind, reports Alan Earls.
The broad surround of digital technology that supports modern medicine – wasn’t supposed to end up this way: Hijacked by rampant concerns about maintaining privacy and even ensuring the safety of care.
The growing value of medical data and the rise of IoT are testing health care’s lagging infrastructure. Alan Earls reports.
Flash has a reputation for security flaws, but experts say it is time to develop a strategy for “dealing” because its ubiquity means it will remain for years to come. Alan R. Earls reports.
Flash has a reputation for security flaws, but experts say it is time to develop a strategy for “dealing” because its ubiquity means it will remain for years to come. Alan R. Earls reports.
Cybersecurity is a technical challenge. But it also usually has a legal and regulatory aspect as well.
Threat actors have free rein while business and government players remain relatively uncoordinated in their responses, reports Alan Earls.
French broadcaster TV5Monde is still without Internet and other key IT functions three months after a nation-state hacker took control of its TV channels and hijacked social media accounts. Meanwhile, the data breach costs are mounting up.
