How to Build a Culture of Cybersecurity

After the city of Atlanta suffered a major ransomware attack earlier this year, other municipal governments have started confronting a serious question: how will they respond if a cyberattack occurs? Scott Tousley, a cybersecurity director for the Department of Homeland Security recently called the Atlanta incident “one of those red blinking lights that people talk about — it’s a warning bell.

5 Password Security Musts to Keep Your Data Safe

In today’s digital world, passwords are a necessary inconvenience — too important to overlook as a critical part of comprehensive security. Protecting your passwords means you’re protecting your data, which in turn keeps your most important identifiers — Social Security numbers, credit card information, home addresses, email accounts, and phone numbers — safe.

Cybersecurity Defenses Save Internet from Largest DDoS Attack in History

Last week, the largest DDoS (or distributed denial of service) cyberattack in Internet history struck GitHub, a large web-based hosting service for computer code. At 1.35 terabits per second, unidentified hackers sent the largest flood of traffic ever recorded via an online mechanism called “memcaching” to try and bombard GitHub and bring their web infrastructure down.

Yahoo Hack Affects 500 Million Users in Largest Single-Company Data Compromise in History

Data breach announcements come and go with regularity these days. And password hacks happen so often we’ve become inured to the constant recommendations to “Change your password — and fast!”

But it’s hard not to be shocked by Yahoo’s revelation that a half a billion computer users had their names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, encrypted passwords, and even security questions hacked in 2014. That’s 500 million accounts — far more people than live in the entire United States.

Believe it or Not, Fantasy Football Can Pose a Serious Online Security Threat

*The image above is an example of how easy it is to download a virus through a free fantasy football website.

The NFL season is back in action, and with it comes a surge in fantasy football participation The numbers are staggering: in 2013, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association estimated that 25 million American adults belonged to fantasy leagues; in 2014, that number rose to 57 million, while in 2015 it topped 75 million.

New Vulnerabilities Announced after Apple Ends Support for QuickTime for Windows

Last week, Apple announced that it would no longer issue security updates or conduct software development for QuickTime for Windows, one of the most common video players around.

The announcement came without warning after TrendMicro identified two critical vulnerabilities, considered “remote code executions,” which could allow hackers to remotely log in to a user’s computer simply by getting him or her to click on an infected link or visit an illicit website.