Over the past two decades, hackers have worked overtime to bludgeon business leaders and IT teams with one cold, hard truth: They aren’t going anywhere. More than that, they will continue to ramp up efforts…
By Dr. Jason Perry, Assistant Professor and Director of Cybersecurity at Lewis University What is cryptography? Chances are, the web browser you are using right now is using cryptography to securely bring you the very…
This year marks the sixteenth annual observance of National Cyber Security Awareness Month. The commemoration, which is sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, promotes the idea that protecting…
In an era of rampant cries of fake news, the aphorism that instructs us to “believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear” has engendered an appropriate amount of healthy skepticism.…
It’s funny. It takes years of highly technical training to become a cybersecurity expert. For example, at Lewis, Computer Science students take 53 credit hours of rigorous coursework to prepare for jobs as cybersecurity engineers…
The World-Wide Web turns thirty years old today. Tim Berners-Lee, a British physicist and computer scientist, devised a new way to access the Internet on March 12, 1989, that relied on hyperlinks to enable people…
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Google demonstrated how machine learning algorithms that use neural networks may be fooled to give erroneous results. By targeting these algorithms with inputs specifically tuned to trick them,…
Iranian hackers have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage over the past two years, according to a recent study by Microsoft. They have targeted hundreds of companies through a variety of means, including…
Passwords are one of the Internet’s weak links. A secret doesn’t stay one for long if you have to share it often, and passwords are, by definition, frequently shared secrets. While not all passwords are…
These days, when your charge card is compromised, your bank knows about it almost instantly. It uses sophisticated algorithms to detect anomalous behavior. If it notices that your charge card was used in Denver, but…