Cybersecurity articles

Last year, mergers and acquisitions reached their lowest level in a decade but are now picking up again, says a report by PwC. However, the down market, geopolitical factors, and the immense growth in the use of digital technologies mean the approach to M&A deals will look very different in 2024. And cybersecurity tops the list of factors that need to be revisited. The 2020 pandemic drove companies towards digital transformation. This trend, which became central to many business models, […]

The ‘mal’ in malware is short for malicious, so clearly you can’t have ‘good’ malware.

Or can you?

It’s not often that we cover specific breaches, but sometimes one comes along that is so substantial and insightful that we believe it’s worth talking about. Such is the case with the recent Change Healthcare ransomware attack. This attack disrupted the entire U.S. healthcare system, forcing facilities to shut down, leaving patients without access to medication and care, and costing large hospitals and pharmacies upwards of $100 million per day. In many ways, the Change attack was nothing new. Bad […]

Avoiding public Wi-Fi while you are out and about is easier said than done.

Here are some simple precautions that can help.

The cybersecurity market is unfortunately loaded with acronyms that can make selecting the right security service confusing. Some of these acronyms overlap, while others have ambiguous meanings that differ depending on who’s providing them. The reason for this disparity in meanings is partly due to marketing hype—as a term becomes popular, marketing teams jump on the bandwagon, adding features to an existing service so they can say they have the same popular offering when, in reality, not much has changed. […]

Malware that’s already been identified and described in the media obviously can’t be “undetectable”, whatever the headlines say.

How can attackers hack you if they don’t know what to look for or how to find it? If you simply make everything in your network opaque, what could ever go wrong?

Companies that use managed services to close key skills gaps experience a 2.4x better “performance premium” than companies that use no managed services, according to a PwC survey of 2,000 companies. This premium includes both revenue growth and profit margin. A significant skills gap, that affects two-thirds of all companies, is the perennial cybersecurity labor shortage. According to the most recent ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, the world needs 4 million cybersecurity professionals to close this gap, even though the global […]

Fun with source code and prime numbers. Duck answers a reader’s question with some lightly technical fun, along with some intriguing but gentle mathematics.

How can attackers hack you if they don’t know what to look for or how to find it? If you simply make everything in your network opaque, what could ever go wrong?

How hard can text-based scripts really be? The fact that we’ve had to split this article into two parts probably gives you a hint at the answer: very hard indeed.

How hard can text-based malware really be? The fact that we’ve had to split this article into two parts probably gives you a hint at the answer: very hard indeed.

Businesses looking for a cybersecurity solution might feel confused about the terms used to describe various offerings. Writers often (and mistakenly) utilize the terms MDR (managed detection and response) and MSSP (managed security service provider) interchangeably, adding to the confusion. Making matters worse, one provider’s MDR service doesn’t equal another — the same goes for MSSPs. Although MDR and MSSP are umbrella terms, the way each company provides each service differs.  Each type of provider has its benefits and downsides […]

We take a look at how cybercriminals go about scamming both purchasers and suppliers, and what you can do to protect yourself and your business.