The federal government’s cybersecurity policies are falling into place just in time to be stalled again
Last week, the Biden administration released its formal roadmap for its national cybersecurity initiative meant to encourage greater investment in cybersecurity and strengthen the U.S.’s critical infrastructure security (and more).
QR codes are relevant again for everyone from diners to threat actors
QR codes have always served as a way for bad actors to spread malware or even your friendly neighborhood prankster to share Rick Astley’s most famous music video.
DDoS attacks want to make sure you haven’t forgotten about them
The economic damage of DDoS attacks is tough to measure — who can really say how much money Blizzard missed out on by not having players in “Diablo IV” for a few hours spending money on microtransactions or choosing to buy the game?
New video provides a behind-the-scenes look at Talos ransomware hunters
Apple's emergency patch, AI-generated art and more security headlines from the past week.
Cybersecurity hotlines at colleges could go a long way toward filling the skills gap
These clinics offers pro-bono cybersecurity services — like incident response, general advice and ransomware defense — to community organizations, non-profits and small businesses that normally couldn’t afford to pay a private company for these same services.
URLs have always been a great hiding place for threat actors
The information leak threats are certainly new, but the education and messaging from security evangelists (and even just anyone trying to educate an older or less security-savvy family member) doesn’t change.
Now’s not the time to take our foot off the gas when it comes to fighting disinformation online
YouTube released a statement that “we will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections.”
Legislation alone isn’t enough to stop spyware
The latest on a newly discovered phishing botnet and the latest headlines regarding how countries use spyware.
It’s apparently hip to still be using Windows 7
Steam, the most popular video game storefront on PCs, only recently announced that it was ending support for Windows 7 and 8, and even then, it won’t be official until January.