Archive for December 2017
Cyber News Roundup: Cyber Attacks’ Impact Not Reaching Boardrooms
The past year may go down as one of the most concerning yet from a cybersecurity standpoint. So, one might logically conclude that companies are ramping up their cybersecurity defenses in a major way. But a recent survey by AlienVault, a leading provider of cyber threat detection solutions, indicates that the widespread and costly cyber…
Read MoreCyber News Roundup: Uber, the human factor and email protection
A common theme you’ll see repeated often on the Cyber Oregon blog is the high-cost of data breaches. It’s also fair to say that covering up a data breach is likely to make a bad situation worse. Such is the case for ride-hailing company Uber, which finally got around to disclosing a 2016 data breach…
Read MoreNew Research Finds Human Error is Greatest Cybersecurity Threat
Cyber abuse is the latest epidemic that can do extensive damage to a person’s privacy, safety, and livelihood—including wreaking financial havoc on the companies they work for. We recently released Hueya Report 2017: Cyber Abuse and the Human Factor, a new report and survey that examines the impact and causes of cyber abuse. The findings…
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