Two reports offer differing viewpoints. One suggests a failure of tools to provide what security teams really need. The other suggests the tools exist but are not properly managed. The industrialization of cybercrime threatens to overwhelm cyber defense. It’s a… Read More "Two New Reports Offer Competing Explanations for Cybersecurity’s Growing Crisis"
Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the daily operations of thousands of schools across the United States.… Read More "The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle"
Cramming for finals is bad enough without the platform you use to do your schoolwork suddenly shutting down. Unfortunately for countless students across the US, that’s exactly what they faced on Thursday after Canvas went into “maintenance mode” following a… Read More "Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare"
“Nation state issues are very serious and very real, but criminal actors still make up the vast majority of incidents that organizations deal with and many of those incidents are quite serious,” Hultquist adds. “Zero-day use by criminal actors has… Read More "The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race"
