How helpful are estimates about how much cyber attacks cost?

Coming from the newspaper and media industry, Im no stranger to wanting to write catchy headlines. Im certainly at fault for throwing together a story about so-and-sos house sold for X million dollars. But recently Ive been wondering if those "big numbers" for cybersecurity are helpful at all, ev...

KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hulu Series on Ashley Madison Breach

KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley Madison. While I cant predict what the producers will do with the video interviews we shot, its fair to say the series will explore...

Public Shaming of Companies for Bad Security

Troy Hunt makes some good points, with good examples...