Profile of Kelly Jackson Higgins

Executive Editor at Dark Reading Member Since: 3/12/2014
News & Commentary Posts: 3150
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Kelly Jackson Higgins is Executive Editor at DarkReading.com. She is an award-winning veteran technology and business journalist with more than two decades of experience in reporting and editing for various publications, including Network Computing, Secure Enterprise Magazine, CommunicationsWeek, Virginia Business magazine, and other major media properties. Jackson Higgins was recently selected as one of the Top 10 Cybersecurity Journalists in the US. She began her career as a sports writer in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and earned her BA at The College of William & Mary. Follow her on Twitter @kjhiggins.

Four Threats For '09 That You've Probably Never Heard Of (Or Thought About)

12/31/2008
What could keep you up at night in the new year may not be what you expect -- a look at some of the lesser-known threats predicted for 2009
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Hundreds of Israeli Websites Hacked in 'Propaganda War'

12/31/2008
Attackers deface sites with anti-Israeli and anti-U.S. messages as bombings escalate in Gaza; U.S. Webmasters warned to be vigilant
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New SSL Hack Imperils Secure Websites

12/30/2008
Potentially deadly silent attack impersonating legitimate digital certificates revealed at hacker confab in Germany
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Microsoft: The Windows Media Player Flaw That Wasn't

12/30/2008
Microsoft refutes report of code execution vulnerability
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CastleCops Shuts Down

12/29/2008
After years of fighting the good fight against spammers and phishers, the all-volunteer online community has pulled the plug
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New Open Standard Arrives For Gauging Security of Web Apps, Services

12/29/2008
OWASP releases Application Security Verification Standard for developers, security pros, and buyers
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Researchers Hone In On 'Dropzones' For Stolen Credentials

12/18/2008
One-third of "impersonation attack" victims from the U.S. and Russia, research finds
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Royal Rip-Off: Fergie's Personal Laptop Stolen In Break-In

12/18/2008
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, finds herself the latest victim of laptop theft
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Survey: Collaboration Applications Not Sufficiently Secured

12/17/2008
Rohati Systems' survey finds collaboration applications are secured mainly by passwords
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The Five Coolest Hacks Of 2008

12/17/2008
Not even your psyche was safe from hacking this year -- hackers found holes in the highway toll system, building security -- and, yes, your head
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Researcher Releases Free DoS Hacking Tool

12/16/2008
'LetDown' can take down a Website, find DoS weaknesses
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FBI's IC3 Issues Tips For Preventing Website Attacks

12/16/2008
Internet Crime Complaint Center says steps may not prevent attackers from gaining access to a site, but will lessen the impact of an attack
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Nostalgic For Cybercrime

12/16/2008
I spent last week serving as a juror in a murder trial. Jury duty is a bit like living in an alternate universe: You live and breathe the trial, but you can't say a word about it to anyone until it's all over. I was unable to discuss what I was hearing each day in the courtroom and prohibited from watching or reading the news so that I wouldn't inadvertently hear any press on the case. And my fellow jurors and I weren't allowed to talk at all about the case until our deliberations.
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Cisco: Cybercriminals Hiding Behind Legitimate Websites, Email Accounts

12/15/2008
New annual security threat report from Cisco highlights a 'rough year' for computing in 2008
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Anti-Cybercrime Efforts Losing Ground In Economic Crisis

12/8/2008
New reports predict cybercrime's rise to further fuel economic crisis, and abuse of Flash for distributing crimeware
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Report: IT, Security Departments Not Seeing Eye To Eye On Threats To The Business

12/7/2008
While 92 percent of security professionals in new Ponemon-Lumension study say their organization suffered a cyberattack, only 55 percent of IT staffers said the same
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Kids Charged With Hacking, Spying On Their Father

12/5/2008
Son and daughter spied on their father with GPS devices, email hacks prior to his January murder, which remains unsolved
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Secunia: Less Than 2 Percent Of PCs Are Fully Patched, Protected

12/4/2008
More than 45 percent have in excess of 10 insecure applications running on their machines
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New Facebook Connect: Federated Identity Or Privacy Nightmare?

12/4/2008
New service carries Facebook profile to other Websites
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Popular Home DSL Routers At Risk Of CSRF Attack

12/3/2008
Researcher demonstrates ease of hacking home routers with insidious cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack
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The New Secure Operating System

12/2/2008
Commercial availability of NSA-certified OS casts spotlight on best practices for securing existing operating systems
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Big New Botnet Growing Out Of Windows Worm

12/2/2008
Around 500,000 infected bots spotted around the globe
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Mobile Handsets Becoming A 'Smoking Gun'

12/1/2008
Rise in mobile devices in the enterprise adds new challenges to incident response
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