Securely Work From Home
This is Part I of a two-part series on improving work-from-home security. Part II details some of the steps that businesses with a distributed workforce can take to keep staff, clients, and overall operations “cyber safe”. Here in Part I, we discuss how you can recognize and mitigate some of your cyber risks while working remotely. […]
Latest Cybersecurity News
ISA is committed to keeping the security community up to date with the latest cybersecurity news. New strain of Mac malware The Mac world has not been hit as hard or as frequently as the Windows world when it comes to malware. That’s just one of the reasons the recent outbreak affecting Mac computers is […]
Ripple20 Bugs Affecting Millions of IoT devices
According to researchers, a lightweight TCP/IP software library that manufacturers have deployed in connected devices for approximately two decades has Ripple20 vulnerabilities. The bugs, four of which are critical, affect hundreds of millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In September 2019, security researchers discovered several severe flaws in connected devices using a software library […]
Think Twice Before Taking A Facebook Quiz
With more time on our hands over the last few months, some of us have been on social media more than ever. Seemingly innocuous entries on many Facebook feeds are personality quizzes or profiling games that promise to reveal your spirit animal, or favourite ice cream, or whatever. While these may seem harmless, pause to […]
Latest Cybersecurity News
ISA is committed to keeping the security community up to date with the latest cybersecurity news. Gmail spam filtering outage could affect millions According to reports by Android Police and Forbes, a Gmail delivery outage on June 30 disrupted the mail filtering service on the popular email platform. As a result of the incident, there […]
Latest Cybersecurity News
ISA is committed to keeping the security community up to date with the latest cybersecurity news. PCI Security Standards Council updates payment card standards If your business accepts or processes payment cards, a recent change to PCI data security standards may affect you. The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has released a major new […]
IT Staff Burnout During Pandemic
How is your IT staff coping during the pandemic? It’s been well-documented that the number of remote workers has exploded over the last few months. IT operations and the cybersecurity teams that defend your digital infrastructure may have never faced such relentless demands. Many IT staff have been on call 24×7 as users, unfamiliar with […]
Latest Cybersecurity News
ISA is committed to keeping the security community up to date with the latest cybersecurity news. Six months to go for Adobe Flash The demise of Adobe’s “Flash” software is not news – back in July 2017, Adobe issued a statement advising that Flash would reach end-of-life (EOL) at the end of 2020. However, earlier […]
Latest Cybersecurity News
ISA is committed to keeping the security community up to date with the latest cybersecurity news. Zoom Video Communications Inc. under fire for limiting end-to-end encryption On May 7, Zoom’s CEO Eric Yuan announced the acquisition of security startup Keybase to help Zoom build and “offer an end-to-end encrypted meeting mode to all paid accounts” […]