by Dianne Bayley | Jul 10, 2021 | Security and Legal
While blended cybersecurity threats are not new, they are fairly sophisticated and multi-staged in nature, meaning that they are difficult to protect against and can pose a considerable threat to organisations’ IT environments. A blended threat typically uses and...
by Dianne Bayley | Jun 30, 2021 | Innovation
In 1988, a Cornell University graduate student named Robert Morris wanted to measure the size of the Internet. He wrote a program that could spread across a network, install itself on machines, and then Morris would count the instances. From that, the now-infamous...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 22, 2021 | Security and Legal
We’ve already seen our fair share of pandemic-driven fraud and cybercrime, but what can we expect as vaccine rollouts pick up pace worldwide? Raymond Pompon, Director of F5 Labs, responds. Cyber espionage to steal vaccine data A viable vaccine is valuable intellectual...
by Dianne Bayley | Jan 10, 2021 | Security and Legal
2021 will bring aggressive cybercrime activity as criminals pivot their attacks from data encryption to data exfiltration. Data exfiltration is a form of a security breach that occurs when an individual’s or company’s data is copied, transferred, or retrieved from a...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 30, 2020 | Sustainability
As the world becomes more accustomed to the digital realm, people have become more reliant on the Internet to remain connected, work, shop and play – a reality that has been heightened by the global pandemic. In their research report, titled “Insights from the...