Article Reviews

The Rise of “Shadow Data”

Even if you haven’t ever used Facebook, your friends and family may have already let them build a profile on you… An article review. For this week’s review we had initially planned on using this interesting piece from Brian Krebs, about the dangers of re...

Giving Cybersecurity Training A Head Start

K-12 teachers offered training to help give every student an education in cybersecurity. An article review. Cybersecurity has become an important part of new and continuing employee education in industries across the board, and for anyone who has struggled with that topic...

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Themes Announced

Weekly themes for the annual event have been announced… An article review. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the weekly themes for this year’s event have been released: Oct. 1–5: Make Your Home a Haven for Online Safety Oct. 8–12: Million...

The Risk of Convenience

Consolidating passwords and other account information can save time, but expose you to risk… An article review. Given the amount of account related information that the average person is expected to keep track of–such as account numbers, passwords, PINs and se...

Cyber Challenge: A Community Bank Cyber Exercise

The FDIC has released new training material to help small banks start a discussion on risk… An article review. Sometimes it can be difficult to find a starting point when getting your employees discussing risk and technology, and while we do provide our own resource...

The 12 Billion Dollar Scam

New FBI statistics suggest compromised business email accounts have led to over 12 billion dollars in losses since 2013… An article review. So much attention has been paid to ransomware, botnets and other relatively recent developments that it’s easy to forget...

New Bill Adds Industrial Control Systems to Homeland Security’s Oversight

While already happening in practice, the new legislation would officially make it one of the agency’s priorities. An article review. In an acknowledgment of what is recognized as a growing threat, legislation introduced recently in the House of Representatives would...

Equifax Ordered To Implement Security Measures

Financial regulators from eight states impose new rules in the wake of the credit reporting agency’s historic breach. An article review. The investigation by federal regulators and law enforcement officials into the breach that resulted in the release of over 140 mi...

Don’t Believe Your Eyes: Router-Based Malware Can Change Website Data

Previously thought to be designed to deliver a DDoS attack, VPNFilter can alter data in transit and change what you see on your screen. An article review. Initially, researchers thought that a new piece of router-based malware called VPNFilter was a relatively simple tool...

Alert Fatigue: A Problem With Few Easy Solutions

Getting a message to the user is one thing, having them see it is another… An article review. In IT we often focus on identifying and communicating risk: to our users, to our superiors and to others in the field. Over the years, we’ve even developed new tools ...

Article Reviews

The Rise of “Shadow Data”

Giving Cybersecurity Training A Head Start

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Themes Announced

The Risk of Convenience

Cyber Challenge: A Community Bank Cyber Exercise

The 12 Billion Dollar Scam

New Bill Adds Industrial Control Systems to Homeland Security’s Oversight

Equifax Ordered To Implement Security Measures

Don’t Believe Your Eyes: Router-Based Malware Can Change Website Data

Alert Fatigue: A Problem With Few Easy Solutions

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