The Philippine Coast Guard is expecting good news in the next dew days.Its largest ship acquisition to date, the 94-meter Multi-Role Response Vessels (MRRV) it ordered from Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, will reach an important milestone th…
Akamai Summarizes Service Disruption (RESOLVED)
At 15:45 UTC on July 22, 2021, a software configuration update triggered a bug in our Secure Edge Content Delivery Network impacting that network’s domain name service (DNS) system (the system that directs browsers to websites for that specific service…
Zero Trust Network Access Is an Oxymoron
Though Zero Trust is really quite simple and should be viewed as a very strong form of the age-old principle of least privilege, that does not mean that it is the same thing. In fact, one of the most significant differences from what came before is tha…
2021 Safest College Campuses in America
Methodology Top 25 Safest College Campuses The Safest College Campuses by State For the Media Although the heat of the summer is in full force, fall is just around the corner, and that means a new wave of students will be moving to campus to start thei…
Zero Trust: Not As Scary As It Sounds
If the term Zero Trust has been popping up in your news feed with astonishing frequency lately, you may be tempted to think that Zero Trust must be a brand-new technology cooked up in a research lab at MIT and powered by the latest artificial intellige…
Kaseya Supply Chain Ransomware Attack
On July 2, 2021, Kaseya disclosed an active attack against customers using its VSA product, and urged all on-premise customers to switch-off Kaseya VSA. Shortly before this alert, users on Reddit started describing ransomware incidents against managed …
Streaming Numbers Jump for European Football Tournament Delivered by Akamai
The video streaming traffic that Akamai delivered for more than 30 rights-holding customers during the July 11 Italy-England football (soccer) final as part of the delayed-to-2021European soccer tournament peaked at 34.9 Tbps on the Akamai edge platfor…
Location-and Device-agnostic Security for the Mobile Workforce
I’ve spent my entire career in technology and can still recall the time when a desktop PC was the only way to work. (Truth be told, I’m also old enough to remember dumb terminals.) I also remember my first company laptop — a beast of a thing with a mo…
Free Coventry University Course to Help Everyone Protect their Online Privacy
Now everyone can learn what privacy means, how your privacy is impacted when using the web and mobile apps, and how to protect your privacy online thanks to a free course from Coventry University.The UK university has worked closely with experts includ…
Mind the Gap: Securely Embracing the Digital Explosion
State and local governments are weathering a digital explosion. The move to “virtual everything” means that greater amounts of information are being produced and transmitted electronically, but the digital infrastructure powering these operations is st…