Jaikumar Vijayan

Independent Journalist & Tech Content Creation Specialist

Jaikumar Vijayan is an award-winning technology journalist with nearly 25 years of experience in IT trade journalism. He was most recently a Senior Editor at Computerworld, a publication that he was with for over 20 years. His stories have appeared in Computerworld, Information Week, InfoWorld, Network World, PCWorld, MacWorld, The Economic Times and other publications. Vijayan sepcializes in writing on information security and its impact on enterprises and consumers. As Computerworld's security and privacy reporter, Vijayan wrote extensively on malware and hacker threats, data breaches, government regulations, enterprise security technologies and services, mobile and wireless security, payment systems security, government surveillance and constitutional rights. Vijayan has also covered a variety of other technology topics including Big Data, Hadoop, Internet of Things, E-voting and data analytics.

December 3, 2015

Tech Support Scammers Spotted Using Ransomware

2 min read - In a troubling new development, some tech support scammers may have begun using ransomware tools to increase their chances of cashing in on schemes.

December 1, 2015

Port Fail Vulnerability Exposes Real IP Addresses of VPN Users

3 min read - A vulnerability in the way many VPN providers configure their port forwarding service lets attackers unmask the real IP addresses of users.

November 11, 2015

Friday Is Peak Malware Distribution Day, Study Shows

3 min read - Malware distribution tends to peak on Friday, according to a new study from Cyren. Here's what else the report had to say about cyberthreats.

September 29, 2015

XOR DDoS Attack Tool Being Used to Launch Over 20 Daily Attacks

3 min read - Threat actors are using a previously discovered DDoS attack tool to launch over 20 daily attacks against legitimate organizations, new research showed.

September 16, 2015

Mobile Travel Apps Are a Security Minefield, Report Says

3 min read - Many of the popular mobile travel apps that consumers use to book flights, hotel reservations and other travel arrangements are riddled with flaws.

September 2, 2015

Deception Tools and Techniques Offer Game-Changing Potential for Enterprise Security, Gartner Says

3 min read - Enterprise security can benefit from the implementation of decoy and deception tools, which Gartner predicts will be essential for future data protection.

July 23, 2015

About 30,000 Instances of MongoDB Exposed on Web, Security Researcher Says

2 min read - Some 30,000 instances of MongoDB are accessible over the Internet because of a failure by database administrators to properly configure them.

July 9, 2015

Operation Kofer Signals the New Commoditization of Ransomware

3 min read - A new type of ransomware called Kofer poses a severe threat to Internet users on a global scale, but it's just the tip of the malware iceberg.

July 2, 2015

Crypto, XSS Flaws Rampant in Web Application Software, Study Shows

3 min read - A handful of common and well-known Web application software flaws continue to pose huge problems for organizations across multiple sectors.

Data Protection June 29, 2015

FUD or Fact: The Role of News Media in Security

3 min read - A session at the InfoSec Europe conference focused on how the news media covers cybersecurity-related stories and what you can do to change the narrative.

June 17, 2015

Log Management Is a Key Use Case for Big Data Solutions, Survey Shows

2 min read - Log management for security-related purposes has become one of the biggest use cases for big data solutions, a survey by the SANS Institute shows.

June 12, 2015

Duqu 2.0 Represents State-of-the-Art New Malware, Researchers Say

3 min read - The Duqu 2.0 malware tool used in the recent attack on security vendor Kaspersky Lab shows a level of sophistication rarely seen in modern malware.

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Jaikumar Vijayan

Tech Support Scammers Spotted Using Ransomware

Port Fail Vulnerability Exposes Real IP Addresses of VPN Users

Friday Is Peak Malware Distribution Day, Study Shows

XOR DDoS Attack Tool Being Used to Launch Over 20 Daily Attacks

Mobile Travel Apps Are a Security Minefield, Report Says

Deception Tools and Techniques Offer Game-Changing Potential for Enterprise Security, Gartner Says

About 30,000 Instances of MongoDB Exposed on Web, Security Researcher Says

Operation Kofer Signals the New Commoditization of Ransomware

Crypto, XSS Flaws Rampant in Web Application Software, Study Shows

FUD or Fact: The Role of News Media in Security

Log Management Is a Key Use Case for Big Data Solutions, Survey Shows

Duqu 2.0 Represents State-of-the-Art New Malware, Researchers Say

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