Hackers Drawn to Oil and Gas Industry’s Lack of Sensors, Controls March 8, 2017 Oil and gas companies, including some of the most celebrated industry names in the Houston area, are facing increasingly sophisticated...
Yahoo Password Breach Equivalent to Ecological Disaster September 29, 2016 By RAPHAEL SATTER As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo’s massive breach to the internet icon, information security experts worry that...
Ransomware and Cyber Extortion Are on the Rise – What Can Be Done? June 27, 2016 By Thomas B. Caswell and Rory D. Zamansky of Zelle LLP Ransomware is evolving from a relatively low-dollar extortion racket, into a more sophisticated, more expensive, and more prevalent major criminal...
Hackers Selling Access to 70,000 Company Computer Systems June 15, 2016 By Ilya Khrennikov Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab says it has uncovered an online marketplace where criminals from all over the world sell access...
Cyber Thieves Make Millions Off High Profile Data Breaches February 17, 2016 Cyber thieves who steal credit and debit card numbers are making millions of dollars in profits, fueling a global criminal...
AIG Offers Property Damage Coverage for Cyberattacks July 24, 2015 By Sonali Basak A three-hour shutdown of the New York Stock Exchange on the same day that a network failure halted all United...
Commentary: Is Corporate America Ready for Real Cybersecurity? January 23, 2015 By Katie Benner Barack Obama wants to prod corporations into addressing their cybersecurity weaknesses and he used his State of the Union speech...
Pittsburgh FBI Cybersquad to Add Agents August 19, 2014 By JOE MANDAK The FBI’s premier cybersquad has focused attention on computer-based crime in recent months by helping prosecutors charge five Chinese army...
Cybercrime Thefts Reach $445 Billion June 10, 2014 By Chris Strohm Cybercrime remains a growth industry. That’s the main message from former U.S. intelligence officials, who in a report outlined scenarios...
Business Survey Finds Cybercrime Increasing May 29, 2014 By MARTHA MENDOZA The hackers are winning, according to a survey of 500 executives of U.S. businesses, law enforcement services and government agencies...