Hackers are smart and clever. They have to be to undo the intricate security measures many businesses put in place to protect proprietary and customer data. A prison in England discovered this fact first hand when it allowed an inmate who had been convicted of a...
Can you explain an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)? Probably not, if you’re like most folks. But you should at least know what an APT is if you are even remotely responsible for your company’s data security, because it is one of the techniques hackers use to break...
It appears that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is getting more aggressive in enforcing HIPAA regulations. Recently a hospice facility in Idaho was fined $50,000 for a breach involving 441 patients. It was the first settlement by HHS for a HIPAA...
Security flaws in the popular Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) standard have prompted the Department of Homeland Security to warn individuals and businesses of the danger in leaving UPnP features activated. Many devices use UPnP to help them easily connect to a network,...
It’s amazing what kind of information about you is floating around in cyberspace: Your bank account numbers, financial transactions, medical records, and other details of your personal life that you trust is being kept private. Perhaps for the most part, only...
Hacking continues to be a costly problem for US businesses, according to a Ponemon Institute report released in October 2012. For each the businesses and organizations studied, the average cost of cyber crime is $8.9 million annually, an increase of 6% from last...
