Top 5 Most Dangerous Cyber Threats in 2024
Only five months into 2024, and the year has been a busy one for cybersecurity practitioners, with multi-year supply chain attacks, nation-state actors exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in network gateways and edge devices, and multiple ransomware incidents against large healthcare entities. What’s ahead for the rest of year? At last week’s RSA Conference, Ed Skoudis, the…
Five ways COVID-19 will change cybersecurity
The main story of 2021 won’t be the disease, but the vaccine. With three effective, promising vaccines in development as of November, COVID-19 (and its treatment) will continue causing major shifts in nearly every facet of our lives. COVID cybersecurity That is particularly true for cybersecurity. Our sector transformed in 2020, and we have still…
Android for cars: Secure connection?
Fast-forward 17 years and there are apps for everything — even your car. Chances are, if an app might make part of your life easier, someone will develop it and plenty of people will use it. Over the past few years, the concept of the connected car has continued to evolve — and become reality….
Salted Hash: RSA Conference 2017 – Live Blog
All this week, Salted Hash will be on location at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. We’ll be updating the blog multiple times a day with news and other content from the show – so check-back often. Yesterday, we mentioned a lawsuit filed by CrowdStrike, which attempted to prevent NSS Labs from releasing test results…
‘Shock And Awe’ Ransomware Attacks Multiply
RSA CONFERENCE 2017 – San Francisco – The data-hostage crisis isn’t going away anytime soon: In fact, it’s starting to get a lot scarier and destructive, and with a more unpredictable outcome. Security experts long have warned that ponying up with the ransom fee only plays into the hands of ransomware attackers; it doesn’t necessarily…