More than a year into the pandemic, burnout caused by remote work is leading to cybersecurity problems in the UK, states a report compiled for Forcepoint. "Interruptions, distractions and split attention can be physically and emotionally draining and, as such, it's unsurprising that decision fatigue" is growing, says Margaret Cunningham, principal research scientist at Forcepoint.

Experts say youthful hackers unhappy with the power of tech companies and the ways of the world in general are fueling a new wave of political "hacktivism" on top of ransomware and other threats. The new preferred place for leaking purloined information is a website called Distributed Denial of Secrets.

Advanced computer architecture could reduce an enterprise's attack surface by 99% or more and prevent hacks now considered "inevitable," writes Roger Schell, president of Aesec Corp. Schell explains the basics of a Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria Class A1 operating system.

A collaboration between ISACA, the One In Tech Foundation and City Colleges of Chicago led to a class of community college students – with varying ranges of previous exposure to cybersecurity – making major headway on their path to pursuing cybersecurity careers. Full story: ISACA

Could 2021 be a tipping point for the adoption of the zero-trust security framework? The US National Security Agency is onboard, issuing zero-trust guidance and noting "traditional perimeter-based network defenses with multiple layers of disjointed security technologies have proven themselves to be unable to meet" current needs.