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Open Source: Unpatched Vulnerabilities Show a Dark Side to Open Source

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source has great benefits, as we reported a couple of weeks back on the results of Black Duck’s Open Source survey.  Benefits like stability, quality, flexibility, no vendor lockin, and speed of development were frequently cited as reasons why

IoT and Security: Mobile, Wearable and BYOD Policies Challenge Business IT Security

By Dick Weisinger

IT departments are worried, worried that they can’t keep up with the dynamics of the IT environments that they support.  For example, 90 percent of IT professionals are worried about the security and privacy issues that the flood of new

Security: Security Experts Paired with Self-Learning AI Algorithms Battle Cyber Crimes

By Dick Weisinger

MIT AI Laboratory (CSAIL) scientists are using machine learning to help stop cybercrimes.  The MIT algorithm called AI2 (AI squared) reportedly is three times more effective in spotting cyber activities than other methods.  The algorithm boasts of being able to detect

Security: Number of Data Breaches Soar while Businesses Increasingly Hide Losses

By Dick Weisinger

The recent Symantec “Internet Security Threat Report” provides a disturbing overview of security threat trends.  The number of zer0-day threats is rising rapidly and today’s hackers are more increasingly sophisticated. The report estimates that more than half a billion records were compromised

Security: Extortion by Ransomware Cases Expected to Increase

By Dick Weisinger

Ransomware.  It’s a new type of malware/cyber attack that has recently been in the news and which is causing serious damage to some organizations.  While encryption is typically used defensively to hide and secure information, ransomware offensively applies encryption to data stored on a computer, making it unreadable