Article Reviews

New Exploits Turn ATM Hacking Into a Game

Hackers are getting unusually creative in their attacks… An article review. One drawback of limiting the scope of our annual review articles (the M-7, T-7 and R-7) to seven items is that we don’t always get to include every subject we’d like to. Luckily ...

Why The Polar Vortex Wasn’t So Bad After All!

Winter weather does its part to help catch a robber… An article review. This time of year the winter weather can get anyone feeling down, so when our friend Joe Cychosz sent us this humorous article we felt like we had to pass it along! It seems that a bank robber i...

Can We Trust Our Technology?

A new exploit involving Apple’s FaceTime is a reminder that our gadgets can be turned against us… An article review. Our regular readers know that we usually try to avoid reporting on current events, but this latest exploit really caught our attention! In shor...

“Reply-All” Email Incident Hits Microsoft

At its peak over 11,500 employees were ensnared in the email chain… An article review. When it comes to email awareness we usually focus on threats coming into our mailboxes from the outside world, like phishing scams. A recent incident at Microsoft, however, serves...

Data For Sale: How Anyone Can Locate Your Phone

Third party ‘location brokers’ are reselling data from carriers, and there may not be much you can do about it. An Article Review. For many years it has been common knowledge that your cell phone’s physical location can be identified–signal triangu...

Takeaways From The NIST Cybersecurity Risk Management Conference

The Internet of Things and privacy continue to present challenges to businesses… An article review. It seems our own Dan Hadaway isn’t the only one making predictions about upcoming trends this time of year! NIST recently concluded their Cybersecu...

Legacy Devices Pose A Security Risk

Devices like fax machines and copiers are often classified as office supplies and slip past IT scrutiny… An article review. Despite all the advances in technology, most offices still generate large volumes of printed documents, and the devices used to produce and pr...

Welcome To The Post-Breach Era

2018 has been the year of the data breach, but how are consumers reacting? An article review. Data breaches are nothing new, as a quick look back through our archives will show, but 2018 may be the year that the general public became fully aware of them. Following the Equ...

FTC Releases New Cybersecurity Guide

Focused on small businesses, the guide covers twelve topics you need to know to be secure… An article review. While there are many resources concerning cybersecurity out there, it can sometimes be difficult to find information tailored for smaller organizations inst...

Coders’ Rights: Protecting Security Researchers

We rely on them to keep our systems safe, but who is protecting the security researchers? An article review. Over the past few decades there have been a number of laws and regulations enacted with the goal of improving computer security, but due to the way many of them ha...

Article Reviews

New Exploits Turn ATM Hacking Into a Game

Why The Polar Vortex Wasn’t So Bad After All!

Can We Trust Our Technology?

“Reply-All” Email Incident Hits Microsoft

Data For Sale: How Anyone Can Locate Your Phone

Takeaways From The NIST Cybersecurity Risk Management Conference

Legacy Devices Pose A Security Risk

Welcome To The Post-Breach Era

FTC Releases New Cybersecurity Guide

Coders’ Rights: Protecting Security Researchers

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