New awareness, crimefighting, and tools meet new threats and bizarre IoT devices in this overview
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and an opportunity to reflect on the state of cybersecurity. Tools are now more sophisticated – and they have to be because of a wide variety of threats. And the sheer weirdness of some hacking never ceases to surprise. With a nod to Clint Eastwood, here’s a roundup of the good, the bad, and the ugly of cybersecurity in 2019.
The good
This is the 16th Cybersecurity Awareness Month, this year with an empowering message about the role we all play in online safety and security at home and in the workplace. We’ve come a long way. When the day was launched in 2004 by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), “The awareness efforts centered around advice like updating your antivirus software twice a year to mirror similar efforts around changing batteries in smoke alarms during daylight saving time," according to the NCSA.
Crimefighting in cybersecurity has taken a big step forward, with the FBI successfully recovering more than $192 million in funds stolen by cybercriminals. The bureau’s Recovery Asset Team has helped streamline communication with financial institutions and assist FBI field offices in the recovery of funds for businesses that report a fraudulent domestic transfer.
Providing a new view into an emerging industry, researchers at Avast and Stanford University provided a world map of the Internet of Things by analyzing user-initiated scans of 83 million IoT devices in 16 million homes worldwide.
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