Ride the Lightning

Jun 28, 2016

Gartner’s Crystal Ball: Its Top 10 Security Predictions

Network World posted Gartner's top 10 security predictions, along with some explanations and background material so it is worth reading

Jun 27, 2016

77% of Workers Use Social Media Regardless of Employer Policies

Employees are anarchists. You put policies in place – even have employees sign off on them in an employee handbook

Jun 23, 2016

What Do Mark Zuckerberg and FBI Director James Comey Have in Common?

According to a post from Naked Security, they both put tape over their laptop webcams. Paranoid? Not if they are

Jun 22, 2016

“Hack the Pentagon” Program Reveals 138 Security Flaws

Naked Security reported yesterday that the Department of Defense's pilot "Hack the Pentagon" bug bounty initiative was a success, with

Jun 21, 2016

Artificial Intelligence in Law Firms Begins to Swell

Back in May, I mentioned that ROSS Intelligence, based on IBM's Watson platform, had announced that Baker & Hostetler had

Jun 20, 2016

Panama Papers Leak: IT Employee Detained in Switzerland

This story just keeps getting more and more complex. After chuckling over the fact that even shredded papers were seized

Jun 16, 2016

Lawyer Phishing E-Mails Reference a Bar Complaint Against You

The Minnesota Lawyers Mutual insurance company recently issued an alert about a lawyer phishing scam in which lawyers received fraudulent

Jun 15, 2016

Russian Government Hackers Breach Democratic National Committee Network

The Washington Post reported yesterday that Russian government hackers had penetrated the network of the Democratic National Committee and gained

Jun 14, 2016

Ten TED Talks on Security: Don’t Miss Them!

With yet another hat tip to the indefatigable Dave Ries, CSO Online has published a list of ten TED security

Jun 13, 2016

Do You Have a Dusty Old Back Office Server Controlled by the Chinese?

While that may seem an improbable question, The New York Times has reported that this is precisely what happened to

Jun 09, 2016

University of Calgary Pays $15,600 in Ransomware Attack to Retrieve its Data

The price of getting the decryption key once your data has been encrypted by ransomware appears to be rising. According

Jun 08, 2016

Are Lawyers “Getting” Cybersecurity?

This is a question I am asked frequently. As one reporter put it, "It seems like lawyers were scared straight