Ransomware and distributed denial-of-service attacks significantly increased from October to November of this year, a cybersecurity research company reported Tuesday. NCC Group reported a 41% jump in ransomware attacks in November, to 265 from 188 in October, making November the most active month for the…

Ask any security pro what’s the most effective protection against hackers and scammers, and they all point to one tool: multifactor authentication. But lately, bad actors have focused on hacking MFA, making its methods susceptible to interception. The post MFA Is Broken, Here’s How To…

An interesting thought occurred to me while I was on Thanksgiving vacation, thousands of miles away from my home in Silicon Valley. While I perform much of my work on a 2021 M1-based MacBook Pro, I sometimes need access to a Windows PC for specific…

‘Tis the giving season when it’s also fun to imagine things that, at least from a distance, look like they’d be fun to have for yourself. For instance, imagine showing up for your high school reunion and stealing the show because of the car you…

Most contractors the Department of Defense hired in the last five years failed to meet the required minimum cybersecurity standards, posing a significant risk to U.S. national security. Managed service vendor CyberSheath on Nov. 30 released a report showing that 87% of the Pentagon supply…

Action by a government standards agency on potential post-quantum cryptographic algorithms will strongly stimulate the PQC market over the next five years, according to an international research and advisory firm. In its recently released Post-Quantum Cryptography application analysis report, ABI Research predicted PQC revenues will…