Profile of Jai Vijayan

Contributing Writer News & Commentary Posts: 915

Jai Vijayan is a seasoned technology reporter with over 20 years of experience in IT trade journalism. He was most recently a Senior Editor at Computerworld, where he covered information security and data privacy issues for the publication. Over the course of his 20-year career at Computerworld, Jai also covered a variety of other technology topics including Big Data, Hadoop, Internet of Things, E-voting and data analytics. Prior to Computerworld, Jai covered technology issues for The Economic Times in Bangalore, India. Jai has a Master's degree in Statistics and lives in Naperville, IL.

Baltimore Reportedly Had No Data Backup Process for Many Systems

9/30/2019
City lost key data in a ransomware attack earlier this year that's already cost more than $18.2 million in recovery and related expenses.
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Mass Exploitation of vBulletin Flaw Raises Alarm

9/26/2019
The remote code execution bug was a 0-day when it was publicly disclosed Monday, but has now been patched.
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GandCrab Developers Behind Destructive REvil Ransomware

9/25/2019
Code similarities show a definite technical link between the malware strains, Secureworks says.
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5 Updates from PCI SSC That You Need to Know

9/25/2019
As payment technologies evolve, so do the requirements for securing cardholder data.
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Startup Cowbell Cyber Launches 'Continuous Underwriting' Platform

9/24/2019
New inside-out approach will give SMBs a way to buy insurance coverage based on a realistic and ongoing assessment of their risk, company says.
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Cloudflare Introduces 'Bot Fight Mode' Option for Site Operators

9/24/2019
Goal is to help websites detect and block bad bot traffic, vendor says.
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Lion Air the Latest to Get Tripped Up by Misconfigured AWS S3

9/19/2019
The breach, which reportedly exposed data on millions of passengers, is one of many that have resulted from organizations leaving data publicly accessible in cloud storage buckets.
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WannaCry Detections At An All-Time High

9/18/2019
More than 12,000 variants of the infamous malware are targeting systems that are still open to the EternalBlue exploit - but the potential danger is low, Sophos warns.
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US Turning Up the Heat on North Korea's Cyber Threat Operations

9/16/2019
Sanctions on North Korean nation-state hacking groups came amid reports of fresh malicious campaigns directed at US entities from the isolated nation.
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Indictments Do Little to Stop Iranian Group from New Attacks on Universities

9/12/2019
Cobalt Dickens targeted more than 60 universities in the US and elsewhere this summer, according to a new report.
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New Privacy Features in iOS 13 Let Users Limit Location Tracking

9/10/2019
Apple will introduce other features that allow more secure use of iPhones in workplace settings as well.
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Public Exposure Does Little to Slow China-Based Thrip APT

9/9/2019
Over the past year, the cyber-espionage group has attacked at least 12 other companies in the military, telecom, and satellite sectors, Symantec says.
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Chinese Group Built Advanced Trojan by Reverse Engineering NSA Attack Tool

9/6/2019
APT3 quietly monitored an NSA attack on its systems and used the information to build a weapon of its own.
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New Technique Makes Passwords 14M Percent Harder to Crack, Nonprofit Claims

9/5/2019
Tide's method for protecting passwords splinters them up into tiny pieces and stores them on distributed nodes.
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5G Standard to Get New Security Specifications

9/4/2019
Researchers had recently demonstrated how attackers could intercept device capability information and use it against 5G mobile subscribers.
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Over 47K Supermicro Corporate Servers Vulnerable to Attack

9/3/2019
Vulnerabilities in a remote-monitoring component give attackers a way to mount virtual USBs on systems, Eclypsium warns.
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