Cyber Roundup – October 2017

Article Excerpt:

Gone are the days when we heard the word “fishing” and looked forward to a day on the lake, when a “hack” was another name for a trick or shortcut that increases productivity and efficiency, or when the “web” referred to a spider’s handicraft in our basement. So, let’s see what happened last month in the cyberworld. In so doing, we will see the scope of criminal behavior conducted with simple computer tools. We will also see how companies are stepping up with exposing the criminal behavior, mitigating its damage and guarding against its recurrence. Lessons learned.