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Reports are coming through that Barracuda is now requiring many of its On-Premise filtering customers to purchase their version of Advanced Threat Protection during their renewal period. In some cases, this may increase pricing by 2-3 times for the average On-Premise customer. While the value of Advanced Threat Protection is in many cases worthwhile, manyRead more

We’ve already discussed data breach notifications for the EU, individual US states, and more, but the SEC also recently weighed in on the matter with its own guidelines around notifications and trading permissions. This likely comes in the wake of insider-trading drama that surrounded the delayed disclosure surrounding Spectre and Meltdown exploits present in IntelRead more

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2017 data and it isn’t pretty. BEC and all forms of Phishing caused plenty of damage, a record number of complaints were filed, and the total losses reported were only slightly down from the previous year at just over $1.4 billion. It’s interesting to seeRead more

Warren Buffett has been among the world’s richest individuals for decades now. He’s so far ahead of the curve that it seems to bend because he says it will. Cyber security has been a concern to him for a long while now, and he seems to be using his public visibility to place more emphasisRead more

How To Measure the Biggest Data Breaches of All Time? It’s hard to come up with a definitive list of the biggest data breaches. Do we rank them by the size of the  breach? Direct financial impact? Indirect social impact? Average cost per victim? Political impact? Notoriety? It is an exercise in futility to rankRead more