Homo sapiens click on links in clunky, non-personalized phish mails. They just do. We’ve seen research suggesting a small percentage are simply wired to click during their online interactions. Until...

You’re a high-level IT security person, who’s done the grunt work of keeping your company compliant with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and a few other security abbreviations, and one day...

We’ve all read the news recently about employees and contractors selling internal customer data records or stealing corporate intellectual property. But insiders breaking bad have been with us as long...

Prosecutors allege that 25-year-old federal contractor Reality Leah Winner printed a top-secret NSA document detailing the ongoing investigation into Russian election hacking last November and mailed it to The Intercept....

State governments are becoming more aware of PII and PHI data breaches, how about your state? See how PII is protected per state with our primer on US State Data Breach Law Definitions.

Whitelisting apps is nobody’s idea of fun. You need to start with a blank slate, and then carefully add back apps you know to be essential and non-threatening. That’s the...

Back in more innocent times, circa 2015, we began to hear about hackers going malware-free and “living off the land.” They used whatever garden-variety IT tools were lying around on...

Understanding if ransomware is a data breach is vital to determining what response your IT and Legal department needs to take.

What we know so far The WannaCry ransomware worm outbreak from last Friday week used just one of the leaked NSA exploit tools, ETERNALBLUE, which exploits vulnerabilities in the SMBv1...

Your garden variety ransomware, like Cerber, is the canary in the coal mine that rudely, but thankfully announces bigger security issues: insider threats and cyberattacks that take advantage of too...

Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts your data and asks for you to pay a ransom to restore access to your files. Cyber criminals usually request that the...

Remember those NSA exploits that got leaked a few months back? A new variant of ransomware using those exploits is spreading quickly across the world – affecting everyone from the...