Jeremy Kirk

Executive Editor, Security and Technology, ISMG

Kirk was executive editor for security and technology for Information Security Media Group. Reporting from Sydney, Australia, he created "The Ransomware Files" podcast, which tells the harrowing stories of IT pros who have fought back against ransomware.

Facebook: 87M Accounts May Have Been Sent to Cambridge Analytica

Jeremy Kirk • April 5, 2018

Facebook says up to 87 million people may have had their personal details transferred to voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica. The figure includes 17 million people in nine countries outside the U.S., potentially intensifying regulator scrutiny of the social networking site.

Facebook's Zuckerberg: GDPR Won't Apply Worldwide

Jeremy Kirk • April 4, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social networking company is already complying with parts of Europe's GDPR privacy legislation, but it won't comply with all of its requirements worldwide. Zuckerberg's comments are likely to rile critics following the uproar around voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica.

US Supreme Court to Hear Microsoft Data Warrant Case

Jeremy Kirk • October 17, 2017

Can U.S. law enforcement use a warrant to seize emails stored outside the U.S. by a cloud services provider? That's the question the Supreme Court has agreed to consider next year. Microsoft continues to fight an order to turn over emails stored in an Irish data center.

Consumer Routers Report Concludes: It's a Market of Lemons

Jeremy Kirk • July 17, 2017

A new report into the state of consumer routers by Carnegie Mellon researchers is unsparing in its criticism: It's a market of lemons, and virtually all of the test models had security problems. What's the solution?

Panel: How Australia's Mandatory Breach Disclosure Law Will Impact Your Business

Presented by Patrick Gunning , Gordon Hughes , Jeremy Kirk , Kay Lam-MacLeod • May 31, 2017

After several years of discussion, Australia's Parliament passed a mandatory breach notification/disclosure law in February. It requires organisations to notify affected consumers and regulators, ensuring transparency in an era of ever-increasing cyberattacks. Although large organisations generally follow the advice...

Panel: Cyber Insurance: A Rising Role in Mitigating Risk

Presented by Ben Chung , Mark Doepel , Jeremy Kirk , Ian Yip • May 31, 2017

The financial risks to organizations from data breaches come from a variety of angles, from share price hits to class-action lawsuits to fines from regulators to reputational damage. As such, the insurance industry has jumped full steam into cyber. Larger insurers are already helping companies spot and mitigate...

We've Been Breached: Now What? How to Effectively Work with Law Enforcement and Regulators

Presented by Phil Cole , Jeremy Kirk , Stuart Mort , Daniel Rodriguez , Alex Tilley • May 31, 2017

Too many organizations continue to address breach response from a reactive mode - having a crude disaster-recovery plan in place in case something "does" happen, rather than accepting that something "will" happen and proactively preparing for it. In this session, a panel of legal, technical and law-enforcement experts...

Online Ad Industry Threatened by Security Issues

Jeremy Kirk • October 31, 2016

The online advertising industry has a malware problem that, in part, has driven increased use of ad-blocking software. It's facing a complicated task: Clean up the security problems or face possible regulation.