Too many tools, and too much complexity, is holding back security.

Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell, and other leaders discuss tensions surrounding AI ethics in big tech and what teams need to succeed.

"Hard to say" who is responsible for platform-wide safety and security.

Mergers and acquisitions, and how security incidents impinge on them.

It’s a sure sign of trouble when leading insurance industry executives are worried about their own prices going up. Two separate CEOs of major insurance giants remarked in recent weeks about a considerable jump in cyber insurance premium prices: AIG’s chief executive said rates increased by 40% for its clients, while Chubb’s chief executive said that company was charging more, too. Rather than welcoming the trend, Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg offered a warning. Those price increases, he said, still don’t reflect the grave risk that a catastrophic cyber event poses. “That is not addressing by itself the fundamental issue,” he said. Those are just two data points about how, in the past year, the evolution of ransomware has radically altered the landscape of cyber insurance, according to analysts inside and outside the industry. Cyber insurance covers a range of ransomware-related costs, like extortion demands, remediation efforts and other losses. Ransomware […]

The friction between state and federal laws isn’t new. But it’s escalating as state-level privacy activity grows in the absence of action from Congress.

I’ve talked about ransomware and extortion attacks on organizations for about a decade. I recently spent a year at Microsoft in Threat…

Following the SolarWinds breach, there have been renewed calls for the end of the dual-hat authority that governs the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command.

CISA has warned that it had seen evidence that malicious hackers had successfully bypassed MFA to compromise cloud service accounts.

Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) are vital to oversee cybersecurity efforts. Companies need a liasion between business and security. Enter BISOs.

We need to do better.

A guide to endpoint security and device management that doesn't erode your values.

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Vault 7, the worst data theft in CIA history, could have been avoided, report finds.

Warned of a ransomware attack, a city couldn't prevent it because the city board wouldn't allocate funds for a proper investigation fast enough.

Dropbox privately paid top hackers to find bugs in software by the videoconferencing company Zoom, then pressed it to fix them.

Company is playing catch-up as pandemic magnifies every flaw.

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