Sixty-three percent of K-12 educators use technology in the classroom daily with laptops and computers being the most commonly used. It should come as no surprise that schools with the heaviest focus on technology--like those that make up the Klein Independent School District (ISD) in Texas--are starting to turn an eye towards security. The school…

Ransomware attacks have been around for a long time. We saw a huge spike in ransomware attacks, and the resulting damages, from 2016 to 2017, including the devastating WannaCry attack of 2017 that cost organizations as much as $4 billion in damages. There was a slight lull in ransomware activities in the 2018 but in…

It is common knowledge that in August, 2018, TLS 1.3 was ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which has made it the new standard for connection security on the internet. The approved version of the RFC is an upgrade of the TLS 1.2 standard, which had been under discussion for over two years…

In September 2018, British Airways announced that a data breach had occurred on their website and app. It was initially estimated that the data related to around 380,000 card payments was compromised. However, recent estimates suggest that the breach affected around 500,000 users. The attack was carried out by hackers using a skimming attack, where…