If you can’t afford bodyguards, don’t bother locking your doors. Ridiculous, obviously. But that’s the attitude too many small businesses take to cybersecurity: Knowing they can’t do everything, they do nothing at all. Post-pandemic, most small…

Artificial intelligence is raising the stakes in cybersecurity: It’s boosting defenses even as it builds faster and more devastating attacks.The latest report from Malwarebytes Labs, “When artificial intelligence goes awry: Separating science…

Scammers are impersonating the IRS to steal Electronic Filing Identification Numbers (EFINs), and the IRS has warned tax professionals that these cybercriminals are "very creative."

We don’t fall for spear phishing because we’re idiots — it’s because we relax behind our email, and because we’re decent people. But, experts say, to stop clicking our way into hackers’ traps we’ll have to start thinking more like criminals. The…

It’s hard to remember that the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom and widespread remote work were new and strange just over a year ago. Together they unleashed a huge learning curve and an alarming new set of cybersecurity risks. People may be returning to…

Sometimes great discoveries come from not knowing where to look. ISSAC Corp., a Springs-based advanced data analytics and system-of-systems engineering firm, recently made its first foray into big data analysis for the medical world — and ended up in…

May 25 is GDPR deadline day — the day the European Union’s stringent new General Data Protection Regulation takes effect — and experts say most Colorado Springs companies aren’t ready. If you’re scrambling, you’re not alone.

Design and production for the joint report from CPRC and UNSW, as well as editing assistance. Authors are Katharine Kemp, Chandni Gupta, Marianne Campbell.

Service accounts might be the biggest cyber risk you’ve never heard of. Hackers and cybersecurity professionals alike named service accounts as the most vulnerable targets in Thycotic’s new “Hackers and Security Professionals at Black Hat” report —…

The good news: Cybersecurity still needs humans. The bad news: Cyber threats are so numerous that humans alone can’t handle them — and they’re so nuanced, they can’t all be farmed out to artificial intelligence.

The K-12 Cyber Incident Map is peppered with markers showing school cybersecurity breaches — and its author says that’s just the tip of the iceberg. “The numbers I have are an under-count,” said Doug Levin, president of EdTech Strategies LLC.…

A chance phone call saved a midmarket Front Range firm from sending about $100,000 to hackers posing as its own chief financial officer. The hackers had breached the CFO’s Office 360 account via malware, and lurked there for more than a month…

Bitcoin survived a savage 2018, losing about three-quarters of its value between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31. Ether and Ripple fared worse, and the year’s end brought a slew of headlines asking, “Is Bitcoin Dead?” and “Is Cryptocurrency Dead for Good?” It’s…

As a business, who should you trust? Which companies are you confident won’t lose your customers’ information to cybercriminals, or leave a virtual back door open for hackers?Mark Bristow, director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications…

The health care sector has become America’s top hacking target, but Colorado Springs experts warn most doctors are still leaving the doors wide open for cybercriminals. Many are failing to keep up with even basic cybersecurity measures, while…