The cyber-extortion plague involving file-encrypting ransomware has hit some major roadblocks since it went pro in 2013. It survived a series of successful law enforcement operations, a sharp turn toward the enterprise as the primary … Read more
(This article is an updated version of a prior publication to reflect new legal developments.) Organizations in the United States face a growing web of complex foreign, federal, and state privacy and data protection laws … Read more
You are violating my privacy! This is a phrase typically thrown around without an understanding of what privacy really means and whether it applies in a situation or not. The prerequisite and necessity for privacy … Read more
We are now entering a realm where cybersecurity and biosecurity are forced to converge and evolve rapidly. Digitizing immense amounts of scientific and research data within the life sciences has made cyber threats as concerning, … Read more
You Thought you Were in Control of your House There are more wireless computers on home networks today since the onset of Covid-19 swept across America, forcing the convergence of work-from-home and distant learning to … Read more
A pillar of the March 2020 Cyberspace Solarium Commission report is to promote national resilience to deny adversaries the benefit of their cyber operations.[1] This ambition is consistent with the Department of Homeland Security’s vision … Read more
One of the oldest ciphers is known as the Caesar cipher. The way it works is to assign a number to every letter in the alphabet. In other words, this method assigns the numbers 1 … Read more
Cybercriminals do not empathize with global health emergencies. They take advantage of any situation they can profit from. Such is the case with the current COVID-19 outbreak. This is aggravated by the stress that organizations … Read more
On January 31, 2020, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared COVID-19 a public health emergency.[1] As the virus spread around the globe, cybercriminals quickly exploited the crisis for commercial gain. In the … Read more
The Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) annual conference was set to take place in March 2020 in Denver, Colorado. It’s a celebratory event that many women in the cyber industry and academia look forward to – … Read more
