After paying his attacker €670, ransomware victim Tobias Frömel sought revenge by hacking into the attacker’s command and control center and generating decryption keys for all the other victims who suffered the same attack. Frömel explained to Bleeping…
Robin Selden, the chief marketing officer for Avast, speaks this month at the Women in Business Expo in England. Are you an entrepreneur going to the WIB Expo? Don’t miss the opportunity to pitch to Avast’s expert panel during the WIB Expo for the chan…
Autonomous devices gobbling Big Data and learning via artificial intelligence sounds like a dystopian nightmare facing humanity.
On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation, better known by its acronym GDPR, came into force. For two years before that – the European Parliament approved GDPR in 2016 – businesses around the world hustled to comply. Fines coul…
You run a business, so the term “next-gen” may not be one you’re familiar with. But as cyberattacks become more sophisticated and more businesses fall victim to cybercriminals, it is important to know. Large companies have IT departments to deploy next…
The plot of HBO’s “Homeland,” in which terrorists try to hack into a world leader’s pacemaker, may not be so far-fetched, a report by CNN Health indicated. The report revealed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration discovered 11 security vulnerabil…
With large amounts of storage available on our modern smartphones, most of us have gotten into the habit of unconsciously snapping photo after photo, not giving a second thought to what that behavior might “cost” us. And that’s exactly what inspired a …
A bunch of coworkers on Skype chat about the good old days, how much money they make now, and sagging morale. “I am getting demotivated, and do not want to do anything,” one tells the group.
Twenty years ago, people mostly took photos that were carefully timed and staged. Today, with gigabytes of storage on our phones, we snap continuously and without worry. Since they cost nothing and we can always delete the bad ones later, we tend not t…
As the artificial intelligence research community comes together For CyberSec & AI Prague next month, guiding principles are on Nicolas Papernot’s mind. “I’m very excited about this conference because at this time this community has an opportunity …