When the COVID pandemic hit, it set off a ripple effect that pervaded society. There were many predictable and immediate consequences to it, including serious illness, death, economic impact, and unemployment. However, some effects were unforeseeable, but have proven to … Continue Reading
U.S. Attorneys Targeted in SolarWinds Hack
The year 2020 yielded a record number of data breaches. Among the most shocking of these was the infamous SolarWinds breach. The Texas-based company provided software to help organizations manage their systems. One of their clients included the United States … Continue Reading
When Data Breaches Turn Deadly
Unfortunately, in today’s digital world data breaches, ransomware attacks, cyberattacks, hacks, and insider threats among other technological perils are a fact of life. It is common knowledge that these breaches can be extraordinarily damaging with effects on the organization or … Continue Reading
Learning from the Capcom Ransomware Attack
One of the earliest and original gaming developers—and among the most successful—is Japan-based Capcom. Youths of the 80s and 90s are sure to remember Capcom for its wildly popular and long-lived game series, including Mega Man, Street Fighter, and Resident … Continue Reading
Gamers: A New Target for Cybercriminals
In the 1970s, a novelty appeared that would evolve into one of the world’s most popular forms of entertainment: video games. There were coin-operated arcade machines and limited consoles, such as the Magnavox Odyssey and Atari. Yet in this decade … Continue Reading
Failing to Backup Is a Fool’s Bargain
Today’s World Backup Day has its roots in a campaign started by hard drive company Maxtor (later acquired by Seagate) in 2005. Back then, it was called World Backup Month. Ismail Jadun, a technology consultant, has been credited with initiating … Continue Reading
Fire Shuts Down OVHcloud Data Centers
A fire at a French cloud computing services firm earlier this week destroyed one data center and damaged another, blocking access to millions of websites in Europe and around the world. A report by the Reuters news agency said the … Continue Reading
Gaming Industry Faces Growing Cyber Threats
The recent cyberattack on game designer CD Projekt Red has highlighted a common but largely overlooked cyber threat. We’ve seen headline after headline about malicious actors using the global COVID-19 pandemic to target overburdened healthcare providers. They’ve even tried to … Continue Reading
Lost Passwords Can Cost You a Bitcoin Fortune
Imagine storing the password to your online-only bank account on an encrypted portable hard drive that required a password to access. Then imagine that you forgot the password to the hard drive. Okay, not a great situation to be in, … Continue Reading
How Banks Can Protect Information in the Digital World
People assume that banks are secure by nature and money and account information is kept safe behind vault doors and secure computers. Unfortunately, that is not always the case in the digital world in which we live. Between online banking … Continue Reading