The National Guard is best known for helping in natural disasters and domestic emergencies at the state level, but it also has a longstanding and perhaps surprising mandate: responding to cyberattacks. That requires a lot of training, and the Guard this week and next will host one of the largest cybersecurity exercises in the country. ...

Securing an entire collection of web browsers across an enterprise has been a sleeper product category for many years, but it’s now heating up. That’s thanks to better management tools and an increasing awareness by information technology managers of the need to harden passwords and prevent phishing attacks. But will these things bring new life to ...

Deepfake still photos and videos have plagued the online world for several years, but now the stakes are getting higher. The problem is deepening as the quality of the fakes gets better and the ease of creating them gets easier, especially since AI technology can be used to gather and modify both audio and video ...

Just this past week, ransom attacks have hit a major Spanish bank, a Canadian university and a legal software-as-a-service platform. So it’s good timing that two reports released in the past month from IBM Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. are providing guides to how to combat the terrible tide. Although the raw number of ransom-based ...

The time has come for running graphic processing unit chips in the cloud. Virtual machines running GPUs are increasingly being offered by the cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services Inc.’s EC2 P4d, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure N series and Google LLC’s Compute Engine. Some of these instances are very high-powered, designed for the most demanding applications, including ...

Around the turn of the century, there was really just one choice for building business applications: using a server that you owned and that sat in your own data center. Then came the cloud and with it the debate over whether an app would be better run in the cloud or on-premises. As Wikibon Chief ...

The foundational protocols for making email more secure and less of a threat have been in place for almost a decade, yet they remain mostly unused, poorly implemented and largely ineffective. A recent report from Sendlayer shows just how much of a problem that is. We all know that email is terribly insecure. If we get distracted, ...

If all goes well, outer space will have its first capture-the-flag hacking competition later this summer. In early June, a SpaceX Falcon rocket sent into Earth orbit the Moonlighter satellite. It’s the world’s first and only hacking sandbox in space, designed and launched to advance the understanding of cybersecurity for space systems. It was built ...

One of the most powerful pieces of malware began with the efforts of three American teens who were motivated by playing “Minecraft” in 2014. Called Mirai, it would go on to crash Germany’s largest internet provider, knock Dyn’s Domain Name System servers offline and disrupt all of Liberia’s internet connections. “Minecraft” gaming server operators back ...

Dell Technologies Inc. announced today its Project Fort Zero as the latest in a series of its zero-trust networking services and products. The project is a combination of a public/private partnership with the U.S. government and the Maryland Innovation Security Institute’s Dreamport facility along with dozens of supporting companies. Dell will deliver a finished product within the ...