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Every day, we hear about the new “innovative” ways that hackers use to infiltrate devices to inject ransomware or steal invaluable date. But hackers are also using data manipulation to make subtle modifications to data sets, which is particularly insidious and could potentially have a greater crippling effect on organizations than a data breach. As…
Read MoreAre cybersecurity budgets increasing or decreasing? In December 2019, experts were predicting 2020 would see a modest 8.7% growth in cybersecurity spending. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it comes as no surprise that security budgets instead are being slashed, prompting Gartner to revise its estimate to 2.4% growth in spending. Are they right? Let’s look…
Read MoreIf we think about vulnerabilities in this way, as a matter of action signaling, then malicious actors are, in their own malicious way, members of our audience. Applications are engineered to function, but they are designed to signal. The specific ways we design apps tell our audience how we expect them to act. When we…
Read MoreHealthcare may be the first industry that springs to mind for many people when thinking about sectors that have had to suddenly, dramatically adjust due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But ask parents around the world, and they’ll likely say “education.” The traditional classroom was turned on its head in a matter of weeks, and some…
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The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for accepting a USD $1.7 million bribe to ignore the activities of a prolific Russian cybercrime group that hacked thousands of e-commerce websites. The protection scheme was exposed in 2022…
Read MoreWhat Is Cybersecurity, Anyway? Another issue in our field is that many organizations seem to build security staffing requirements around a bachelor’s degree in computer science. It is possible that this was a good strategy once, but computer science degrees and security are increasingly mismatched, for several reasons. Most people in computer science programs want…
Read MoreFive Key Cybersecurity Skills In part one, we explained why it’s better to grow your own cybersecurity experts than shop on the open market. If CISOs can find people who are inspired by security, and who are willing and humble enough to go the distance, they should hold on to them—these are the people to…
Read MoreRegulators are increasing enforcement actions and penalties against the big banks for failures in cyber risk management, and the rest better take notice. Between August and October of 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an independent bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, imposed $625 million in fines on major…
Read MoreDuring these unprecedented times, legacy banks and financial services institutions (FSIs) face unique operational challenges. Many of them have to rapidly expand their digital service offerings in order to navigate economic disruptions. In fact, banks in Asia Pacific (APAC) are rethinking processes and digitalizing processes, with 70 percent are adopting real-time payments by 2022 according…
Read MoreThe best practice document from Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) recommends the use of an external user agent (such as a browser) to complete the flow in authorization flow code grant. When a native app wants to access private information, it needs to first get an authorization code. The native app starts its authorization request…
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