eSecurity Planet contributor Jeff Goldman has been a technology journalist for more than 20 years and an eSecurity Planet writer since 2009. He’s also written extensively about wireless and broadband infrastructure and semiconductor engineering. He started his career at MTV, but soon decided that technology writing was a more promising path.
Earlier this week, Ukrainian police seized servers belonging to accounting software provider Intellect Service as part of an investigation into last month’s massive NotPetya ransomware attack, which hit the country’s…
At the recent Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2017, company analysts predicted that the following 11 technologies will be the top solutions in information security in the coming…
A recent Synopsys study of 128,782 software applications found that almost 50 percent of the third-party software components of those applications are more than four years old, with a more…
Researchers at Dragos Security and ESET have released in-depth analyses of the cyber attack that caused a massive blackout in Kiev, Ukraine on December 17 and 18, 2016. Dragos…
A Department of Homeland Security official told Reuters earlier this week that some U.S. critical infrastructure operators have been affected by the recent WannaCry ransomware campaign. The official didn’t provide…
Following last Friday’s worldwide outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware, which has now infected over 165,000 computers, Microsoft quickly released security updates for several operating systems the company no longer officially…
U.S. government agencies would need to increase the annual salaries of information security personnel by approximately $7,000 to equal the annual salaries of their private sector counterparts, a recent survey…
On Friday, a version of the WannaCry ransomware hit tens of thousands of computers in 74 countries worldwide in a matter of hours, according to Kaspersky researchers. “It’s important to…
On average, 181 vendors are granted access to a company’s network in a given week, a recent Bomgar survey of 608 IT professionals found. Eighty-one percent of respondents said they’ve…
More than 80 percent of Americans are more concerned about their online privacy and security today than they were a year ago, a recent AnchorFree survey [PDF] of more than…
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