Kelly Jackson Higgins
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Virginia, United States
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Meet the Computer Scientist Who Helped Push for Paper Ballots
Security Pro File: Award-winning computer scientist and electronic voting expert Barbara Simons chats up her pioneering days in computer programming, paper-ballot backups, Internet voting, math, and sushi. → Read More
TA505 Targets HR Departments with Poisoned CVs
Infamous cybercrime organization spotted in attacks that employ legitimate software -- and Google Drive. → Read More
Data Leak Week: Billions of Sensitive Files Exposed Online
A total of 2.7 billion email addresses, 1 billion email account passwords, and nearly 800,000 applications for copies of birth certificate were found on unsecured cloud buckets. → Read More
How Diversity Can Bridge The Talent Gap
Women and minorities in the security industry share some hard truths about the security industry's hiring traditions and practices. → Read More
Russian Cyberspies' Leaked Hacks Could Herald New Normal
Time to set cyber espionage 'norms' before more volatile nation-states follow suit, experts say. → Read More
Poorly Configured DNSSEC = Potential DDoS Weapon
New research from Neustar shows how attackers could abuse DNSSEC-secured domains for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. → Read More
New HIPAA Guidance Tackles Ransomware Epidemic In Healthcare
HHS addresses ransomware infections in wake of healthcare attacks. → Read More
How To Use Threat Intelligence Intelligently
Sometimes it's about a beer, but it's mainly about being prepared before opening the threat intel floodgates. → Read More
New Internet Of Things Security-Certification Program Launched
ICSA Labs now offers a security testing program for IoT products, following the recently announced 'CyberUL' security certification program. → Read More
Why Microsoft's New Office 2016 Macro Control Feature Matters
Resurgence in macro attacks result in Microsoft adding new protections from macro abuse. → Read More
Epic Security #FAILS Of The Past 10 Years
In honor of Dark Reading's 10-year anniversary, a look at ten of the biggest failed security trends, technologies, and tactics. → Read More
Conficker Showdown: No End In Sight
Reinfected machines likely part of the 5.5 to 6 million-strong Conficker headcount → Read More
Domain Abuse Sinks 'Anchors Of Trust'
Georgia Tech researchers create algorithm to help detect rising DNS domain abuse by cybercriminals, nation-state actors. → Read More
That Time I Got Publicly 'Hacked'
In honor of Dark Reading's 10th anniversary, I embarrass myself one more time for posterity. → Read More
Dark Reading Radio: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Security Budget
Join us on Wednesday, May 18 at 1pmEDT/10am PDT, for a discussion with security executives on how to prioritize and manage your IT security budget. → Read More
CSRF Vulnerability: A 'Sleeping Giant'
A mostly unknown Web vulnerability called Cross-Site Request Forgery could be the next attack vector on your Website → Read More
Verizon DBIR Puzzler Solved With Meghan Trainor And 'Cyber Pathogens'
All about that puzzler's paradise that is the 2016 Annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report cover contest. → Read More
Healthcare Suffers Estimated $6.2 Billion In Data Breaches
Nearly 90 percent of healthcare organizations were slammed by a breach in the past two years. → Read More
What's Next For Network Security
A 'vanishing' physical network perimeter in the age of mobile, cloud services, and the Internet of Things, is changing network security as well. → Read More
4 Signs That Apple's Sharpening Its Security Game
Apple is quietly making some subtle, incremental security moves in the face of new threats to its products → Read More