Security Breach Roundup: Nationwide Takes Top Billing
December wasn’t a particularly bad month in terms of security breaches, save for one big one announced by Nationwide Mutual Insurance. Perhaps the bad guys were busy with their holiday shopping. But we...
View ArticleTwo-factor Authentication: What It Is and Why You Should Care
As faithful readers of our monthly Security Breach Roundups know all too well, data loss is a huge problem for most any company. All it takes is an unwitting employee or a weak username/password...
View ArticleSecurity Breach Roundup: Tales of the Gray Lady, China, Chicken and Canada
China looms large this month, playing a central role in a hack on The New York Times and also in a strange story of a man outsourcing his own job, while Canada suffers a big breach along with a chain...
View ArticleMilitary IT Pros Ordered to Stay Away from Event Targeting Military IT Pros
If last week’s AFCEA West 2013 conference in San Diego is any indication, these are strange and trying times to be an IT professional with the U.S. military. AFCEA West is the annual confab that...
View ArticleSecurity Breach Roundup: Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook Oracle and the Fed
For a short month, February sure saw a long list of data breaches at big organizations, including Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Oracle (with their Java platform playing a prominent role) and the...
View ArticleManaged Security Services Enable IT to Jettison Mundane Tasks and Focus on...
The importance of IT security has never been more apparent, and while security tools from folks like our partners at Fortinet and ForeScout are leading the industry and getting better all the time, it...
View ArticleMarch Security Breach Roundup: Evernote, PayPal and Making the Case for...
After a busy February with respect to security breaches, with the likes of Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Oracle and the Federal Reserve all falling victim, we ended last month’s security breach...
View ArticleHealthcare Institutions Face Multifaceted Security Challenges
As regular readers of our monthly Security Breach Roundups are well aware, healthcare organizations seem to suffer more than their fair share of security breaches. But we didn’t quite appreciate the...
View ArticleContext-Aware Networking: Keeping Your Company Safe in a Wireless World
As users come to expect wireless access to be pretty much ubiquitous, and to be able to use the device of their choosing, companies face significant challenges in how to go about delivering on those...
View ArticleSecurity Breach Roundup: Supermarkets, Colleges, Utilities, Serious Gamers...
This month’s IT security breach roundup includes a breach at what must be one of the larger supermarket chains that those of us on the East Coast have never heard of, along with a community college in...
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