Jon Swartz Jon Swartz is senior content writer at Techstrong Group. Most recently, he was MarketWatch’s senior reporter based in San Francisco covering technology and Silicon Valley.
Previously, Swartz was USA Today’s San Francisco bureau chief. He has also written for Forbes, The (London) Independent, London Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and New Orleans Times-Picayune. He has won numerous journalism awards and is a two-time finalist for the Loebs, the Pulitzers of business reporting. Additionally, he frequently appears as a panelist on Fox Business and NBC Bay Area’s Press:Here program.
He has been nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize. Swartz is co-author of “Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity” and sole author of “Young Wealth.”
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Palo Alto Networks Issues AI Red Alert
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — With great promise comes potential peril. And while artificial intelligence (AI) is looked upon as a panacea for enterprises, it also poses an existential security threat. “We stand at the intersection of human ingenuity and technological innovation, where the game of cybersecurity has evolved into a ... Read More
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CrowdStrike Gets Grilled By U.S. Lawmakers Over Faulty Software Update
In what has become an annual ritual between Silicon Valley and the Beltway, a House subcommittee pressed a tech company over a glitch. And the company promised to do better. During a hearing Tuesday, federal lawmakers reacted with measured outrage at CrowdStrike Inc.’s software outage that wreaked havoc with key ... Read More
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Manufacturing, Industrial Sectors Are Under Siege
Manufacturing and industrial sectors are becoming bigger cyber-targets, and many of the intrusions are coming from China. Those are among the sobering takeaways from a report Tuesday by Ontinue’s Advanced Threat Operations team in its biannual Threat Intelligence Report. The two sectors endured a 105% increase in attacks during the ... Read More
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Facebook Whistleblower Fears Election Abuse
Frances Haugen, who famously blew the whistle on Facebook and its susceptibility to manipulation, has renewed concerns over the social-networking company. This time, she’s laser-focused on misinformation during the 2024 presidential election. “We are in a new, very nebulous era where we need to think more holistically and creatively” in ... Read More
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One-Third Of Companies Suffered SaaS Breach This Year
SaaS breaches are on the rise, and nearly half the corporate victims have more than 2,500 employees. Those are among the sobering conclusions from a survey of security experts at 644 organizations in six countries — the U.S., UK, France, Germany, Japan and Australia — by AppOmni, which found a third of ... Read More
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Ransomware Attack Fetched A Record $75 Million
LAS VEGAS — Ransomware attacks are escalating in scale and frequency. But one recent payout, a record $75 million by a victimized Fortune 50 company, trumped a surge in extortion attacks that are likely to only increase, according to a new report from Zscaler Inc.’s ThreatLabz research. “Stolen data and ... Read More
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Democracy’s Challenge: Secure Elections Worldwide
LAS VEGAS — The U.S. presidential election is less than three months away, and many cybersecurity experts are bracing for a deluge of deceit. During a Black Hat 2024 keynote panel Wednesday morning, international leaders outlined how they are approaching election security risks — namely, cyber threats, nation-states, and the ... Read More
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Black Hat Preview: CrowdStrike, Disinformation Lead The Narrative
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As cybersecurity experts make their way to the one-armed bandits and scorching heat in Las Vegas for Black Hat USA 2024 next week, the specter of the CrowdStrike Inc. debacle looms large ... Read More
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Google Nears $23 Billion Purchase Of Wiz: Reports
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is closing in on a $23 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Wiz – its largest purchase ever ... Read More
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