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Personal cyber insurance expected to take off in 2021

01/05/202112/23/2020 Jesse Collins

Personal cyber insurance - cyber crimes - mobile devices

A recent Accenture survey found that people are no longer feeling secure in their devices. As identity theft, hacking and other digital threats have placed personal cyber insurance into the tech spotlight this year. Before 2020, it was common for people to keep phones unlocked and trust their apps. Events throughout last year – including everything from the regular use of video calls by children to a massive hack into government agencies revealed in December – placed a substantial spotlight on the lack of true security we all face in…

Cyber Attacks Don’t Die, They Evolve

07/19/2018 Jorge Gonzalez

Cybersecurity often feels like taking one step forward and two steps back. An attack will appear, the security community will respond, and eventually the threat will be eradicated. Then, a few months down the road, the threat reappears in a newer and stronger form. Most commonly, it’s evolved to specifically bypass the defenses created to combat it. This has always been true of cyberattacks. The earliest hackers searched for ways to tweak or re-purpose code after encountering a new defense. Or, rather than search for new vulnerabilities, they found new…