Article posted: Jun 21, 2017
By Joakim Thorén, CEO
It seems lately that more countries are turning to biometrics to ensure the safety of their borders. This January, Australia vowed it will replace passports as a means of identifying passengers after installing the latest biometric identification platforms, such as facial, iris or fingerprint recognition systems by 2020.
Article posted: Jun 19, 2017
By Anders Adolfsson, Technical Consultant
Keeping your admin rights current is a necessity today. Verelox, a provider of dedicated KVM and VPS servers based in The Hague, Netherlands, is a good case in point. The company recently endured a devastating data outage after a former administrator deleted all customer data and wiped most of the company's servers, per Bleeping Computer.
Article posted: Jun 07, 2017
By Joakim Thoren, CEO
It's no surprise that as the numbers of places where voters can make their election choices electronically increase so, too, do concerns around security, reliability, privacy and safety. But when you're in our business, you know that the technology certainly exists to ensure electronic voting addresses every one of those concerns.
Article posted: May 31, 2017
By Joakim Thoren, CEO
This week, Fortune reported Target reached an $18.5 million settlement with 47 states and the District of Columbia over a massive data breach in late 2013. The hits keep coming for Target: over the past four years, the mega retailer has shelled out $202 million as part of this costly data breach.
Article posted: May 25, 2017
By Joakim Thoren, CEO
It's not often that Mashable writes about two-factor authentication (2FA), but it's a sign that personal security is being threatened and organizations and individuals are concerned. The latest malware virus, WannaCry, shocked the security industry and exploited older operating and legacy systems, shutting down hospitals in the UK and large multinational organizations around the world.
Article posted: May 18, 2017
By Joakim Thoren, CEO
Everyone is talking about the recent worldwide ransomware cyberattack, named WannaCry. A suitable name as the WannaCry ransomware attack was particularly vicious, shutting down hospitals and disrupting high-profile operations like Telefonica, FedEx and Renault.
According to a recent ECNMag article, this was the "largest ransomware attack observed in history." Europol Chief Rob Wainwright added, "More than 200,000 victims have been hit in 150 countries as of last week."
Article posted: May 09, 2017
By Joakim Thoren, CEO
Social engineering is a cybercriminal's best friend. That's according to Juniper Research, which recently published the "Cybercrime and The Internet of Threats 2017" whitepaper.
In its report, the Juniper team says that even with evolving methods for attempting unauthorized access of computing systems, the preferred route taken by most hackers is still this: duping users into opening the door. Simply put, cybercrime is often perpetrated through social engineering.
Article posted: May 03, 2017
By Nick Budden, Partner and Security Expert at Versasec
A recent BBC.com article pointed out Public Key Cryptography (PKI), created by researchers at Stanford University in 1977, is celebrating its 40th birthday. The findings of the Stanford team were nearly silenced by a US government agency at the time, which viewed this research as "legally equivalent to exporting nuclear arms to a hostile foreign power."
But why did the US think that sharing PKI research was so damaging to national security?
Article posted: Apr 17, 2017
By Joakim Thoren, CEO
Version 4.8 of our flagship product, vSEC:CMS is here, and this latest version incorporates more options for managing security credentials on the user side. In the latest iteration of the vSEC:CMS S-Series, the primary changes our customers will see relate to user self-service improvements.
Article posted: Apr 12, 2017
By Joakim Thoren, CEO
Cities in tornado zones have emergency sirens for a reason: to alert their populations of impending potential major storms, hail or other emergency situations either in the city or in surrounding environs. So, imagine the sheer panic raised when all 156 of Dallas' tornado sirens were sounding for approximately 90 minutes during the wee hours of the night over this past weekend.
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