The Information Age has revolutionized global communication and presented more opportunities for the advancement of humanity than perhaps any other period in history. With the birth of the World Wide Web, breakthroughs in medicine can travel the world at the click of a button, entire business enterprises can be created from a hotel room, scientific…
With every business and IT decision, we now have to take cybercrime into account. Behold our list of 12 things every Chief Information Officer (CIO) should know. Ginni Rometty, IBM’s CEO, has stated, “Cybercrime is the greatest threat to every company in the world.” Now even if you have doubts on this statement, it is…
Armies of social media bots battle for hearts and minds online. On the eve of last year’s U.S. presidential election, two computational social scientists from the University of Southern California published an alarming study that went largely unnoticed in the flood of election news. It found that for a month leading up to the November…
I’m often asked by family and friends what they should do to protect themselves from a cyber-attack, as well as what attacks they’re susceptible to. There are so many types of attacks out there: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), malware injection, ransomware, adware, phishing, spear-phishing, zero-day, etc. Social engineering continues to be successful in compromising…
