A John Jay College of Criminal Justice project on cyber-terrorism is one of 13 selected by the Department of Homeland Security as part of the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education (NCITE) Center, a new DHS Center of Excellence. The project will be housed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Fraud and economic crime rates remain at record highs, impacting companies in more ways than ever. PwC's bi-annual survey of business crime reports that fraud committed by customers tops the list of all crimes experienced (at 35%), up from 29% in 2018.
George Mason University’s Volgenau School of Engineering announces the creation of the Department of Cyber Security Engineering, the first of its kind in the country.
The Phishers' Favorites report for Q4 2019 says that PayPal remains the top brand impersonated by cybercriminals for the second quarter in a row, with Facebook taking the #2 spot and Microsoft coming in third.
New research finds that 97 out of 100 the world's largest airports have security risks related to vulnerable web and mobile applications, misconfigured public cloud, Dark Web exposure or code repositories leaks.
While there is still time left in 2019, according to the recent Data Breach QuickView Report, there were 5,183 breaches reported just in the first nine months of 2019 exposing 7.9 billion records.
