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Hijacking Healthcare: Is DTSec Regulation the Solution for IoT enabled devices?

The recent jump in cyber attacks against the healthcare industry—especially ransomware attacks—aren’t a coincidence. The reality is that the healthcare industry presents the perfect opportunity for...

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Hacking Education - The Next Soft Target

When you send your precious 5 year old off to Kindergarten this year, not only do you need to worry about bullying, drugs and homework, now add hacking their personal identifiable information (PII)...

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Ransomware, a Billion Dollar World Wide Threat

Every day I hear that a company has solved the network and file security war with a new security widget. Yet every day there are more announcements of breaches, stolen identities, etc. According to...

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Director of National Intelligence Cautions Presidential Candidates on Cyber Attacks

As if presidential candidates didn’t have enough on their plates defending themselves against their opponent’s attack ads, James Clapper has warned that they should expect to deal with cyberattacks....

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Real Time Passive Monitoring is the Smarter Solution

Our infrastructure is at risk. In 2013, an Iranian hacker broke into the flow control mechanism for a dam in upstate New York. Only the fact that the dam itself was broken prevented him from remotely...

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How Much is My Information Worth on the Dark Web?

In the April 5, 2016 report by the Identity Threat Resourse Center (ITRC) there have been 227 breaches which have compromised 6,214,514 records containing personally identifiable information (PII)....

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