2017’s biggest cybersecurity facepalms
2017 was a year like no other for cybersecurity. It was the year we found out the horrid truths at Uber and Equifax, and border security took our passwords . A year of WannaCry and Kaspersky , VPNs and blockchains going mainstream, healthcare hacking , Russian hackers , WikiLeaks playing for Putin's team , and hacking back . In 2017 we learned that cybersecurity is a Lovecraftian game in which you trade sanity for information. Let's review the year that was (and hopefully will never be again). Moscow mules This was the year Kaspersky finally got all the big press they've been angling for. Unfortunately for them, it wasn't for their research. The antivirus company spent an uncomfortable year in the headlines being accused of working with Russia's FSB (former KGB) . Eventually those suspicions got it banned from use by US government agencies. Kaspersky's alleged coziness with Putin's inner circle has made the rounds in the press and infosec gossip ...
