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Bentonville’s Smart Eye Technology Targets Remote Cyberattacks

Smart Eye Technology, founded by Dexter Caffey, uses continuous facial recognition to enhance cybersecurity and block remote desktop attacks. read more >
Education / Media & Marketing / Technology

UA’s Stephen Tycer on Evolving Cybersecurity Trends & Challenges in Higher Education

He has more than two decades of experience in compliance standards, technology and network security management. read more >
Banking & Finance / Business Services / Energy

Bring Your Own Device to Work? Better Not (Chris Wright Commentary)

A mobile workforce must follow the same cybersecurity protocols as in-person employees. read more >
Small Business

Arkansas Businesses Face Growing Need for Cyber Insurance as Cyberattacks IncreaseLock Icon

As cyber criminals grow more sophisticated and attacks more frequent, businesses face a reality in which cyber liability insurance is no longer optional. read more >
Education / Government & Politics

UA Little Rock Gets $1M Grant to Establish Cybersecurity Center

The university plans to renovate a space of more than 5,000 SF in the Engineering and Information Technology Building for the new center. read more >
Education

UA Little Rock Awarded $561K to Lead GenCyber Program Coalition

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been awarded $561,000 grant from the National Security Agency to lead a coalition of institutions who will offer cybersecurity programs to junior high and high school students. read more >
Banking & Finance / Education / Government & Politics

Cyberattacks: It’s Not If But When (Ashley Perkins Commentary)

Your company’s cybersecurity will be tested. Being ready requires a varied approach to counter threats. read more >
Banking & Finance / Industry / Investments

Jeff Teague Talks Cybersecurity & Banking Success at Citizens Bank

Jeff Teague is chairman & CEO of Citizens Bank of Batesville. An automobile dealer by first love and career, he entered banking by accident. read more >
Business Services / Education / Small Business

Forge Institute Launches Programs to Support Tech Innovation, Entrepreneurship

The programs are funded through an award from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, which received $5 million in federal funding to support efforts to enhance cybersecurity capabilities across the region. read more >
Business Services / Government & Politics / Health Care

Malicious Actors Trying to Exploit Global Tech Outage for Their Own Gain

Government cybersecurity agencies across the globe and CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz are warning businesses and individuals about new phishing schemes that involve malicious actors posing as CrowdStrike employees or other tech specialists offering to assist those recovering from the outage. read more >

Forge Institute Adds 2 to Advisory Board

Both have worked with the CIA and have years of experience in cybersecurity. read more >
Banking & Finance

Hackers Post Evolve Customers’ Data on the Dark Web

The cyberattack comes less than two weeks after the Federal Reserve took action against Evolve over shortcomings in its risk management program. read more >
Banking & Finance / Business Services / Health Care

Generative AI: Force of Change or Potentially Dangerous Flub? (Chris Wright Commentary)

Some misleading generative AI content is unintended and innocuous. Others may be designed to encourage certain behaviors, such as swaying public opinion, convincing consumers to divulge personally identifiable information or unknowingly opening entry point into their digital systems. read more >
Banking & Finance / Energy / Industry

Smackover Company Sues for $2.5M After ScamLock Icon

Four R Marketing LLC is suing one of its customers who was allegedly scammed by a hacker for $2.5 million. read more >
Banking & Finance / Public Companies

Using AI, Mastercard Expects to Find Compromised Cards Quicker, Before They Get Used by Criminals

Mastercard, which is based in Purchase, New York, says with this new update it can use other patterns or contextual information, such as geography, time and addresses, and combine it with incomplete but compromised credit card numbers that appear in databases to get to the cardholders sooner to repl read more >
Agriculture & Poultry / Government & Politics / Insurance

US Says Cyberattacks Against Water Supplies are Rising, and Utilities Need to do More to Stop Them

About 70% of utilities inspected by federal officials over the last year violated standards meant to prevent breaches or other intrusions. read more >
Banking & Finance / Business Services / Legal

The Cybersecurity Deadbolt: Protected Passwords (Chris Wright Commentary)

By following best practices and, most importantly, using a password manager when logging into our accounts at work and home, we can better protect ourselves from breaches and attacks. read more >
Health Care / Technology

A Cyberattack Forces a Big US Health System to Divert Ambulances and Take Records Offline

The attack had the hallmarks of a ransomware, and Ascension said it had called in Mandiant, the Google cybersecurity unit that is a leading responder to such attacks. read more >
Banking & Finance / Technology

Reading The Future: Banking (40 Years of Arkansas Business)

Susannah Marshall, Arkansas bank commissioner, believes banking consolidation will still be on the scene in the future but not to the same historic extent. read more >
Health Care / Industry / Insurance

The Value of Redundancy (Editorial)

Walking the line between adequate safeguards and efficiency is a key balancing act. read more >