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Thursday, December 31, 2020

Cybersecurity had a rough 2020, but 50 recent headlines suggest the outlook for 2021 could be even worse

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Sadly, my annual outlook for cybersecurity has, for the past 20 years, been this: "things will get worse before they get better." ...
Thursday, November 05, 2020

Universal Recipe for Disaster: Works in Cyberspace as well as Meatspace (a plea to heed experts)

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Getting people to heed your warnings is one of the toughest aspects of being an expert, whether your specialty is epidemiology or criminolog...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Thanks for reading and heeding. Please #BeCyberSmart! (Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Day 31)

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Vote for those committed to doing a lot more about cybersecurity than has been done so far This is blog post 31 of the 31 posts that I pledg...
Friday, October 30, 2020

Cybersecurity needs more women, now and in the future (Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Day 30)

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Hopefully, you have seen many images like the one above during Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2020, which is now drawing to a close. This mes...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Cybersecurity awareness: Why some people get it, more than others (Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Day 29)

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In 2017, I wrote: “the digital technologies that enable much of what we think of as modern life have introduced new risks into the world and...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Are you aware of the cybersecurity skills gap? (Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Day 28)

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There is a shortage of effective guardians Remember back on Day 1 of this Cybersecurity Awareness Month when I talked about how much cybercr...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

From ransomware to blackmail: cybercrime takes a nasty, evil turn (Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Day 27)

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We interrupt our regularly scheduled cybersecurity awareness blog post to bring you this deeply disturbing news: One or more criminals are t...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Cybersecurity for our hyperconnected future (Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Day 26)

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We are now in the final week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, 2020. The theme for this week is to look at the future of connected devices, ...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

Time and awareness and other security musings (Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Day 25)

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Because October is the designated month for cybersecurity awareness, and because this year is 2020, that means the 25th day of the month is ...