Rob Lemos

SAN FRANCISCO—Ransomware will continue to cause pain for companies in 2017, but there continues to be no single successful strategy to prevent or reduce the damage caused by this disruptive malware. For many companies, backups will provide a reliable fall-back measure if the company’s data is encrypted via ransomware. Yet, recovering data from backups is […]

While software security has continued to gain attention as a serious issue, and despite a greater variety of tools available to identify and prevent vulnerabilities, the number of security holes—especially critical issues—continued to climb in 2016, according to data released by security metrics firm Risk Based Security. In 2016, the company identified 15,000 vulnerabilities, up […]

Wikileaks published a trove of more than 8,000 files on March 7, purportedly stolen from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and containing “several hundred millions lines of code” as well as descriptions of cyber-operations. The large corpus of material, dubbed “Vault 7” by Wikileaks and which security experts had already started analyzing, appears to be […]