Recently, 14,000 employees for the Department of Energy had personally identifiable information, including Social Security numbers, compromised by a hacker. Article Excerpt: Personal information for roughly 14,000 past and current Energy Department employees was...
There is now an online service that can produce counterfeit personal documents such as driver’s licenses or passports, which cyber criminals can use to impersonate you online in order to gain access to bank accounts and other sensitive accounts. Article Excerpt: A new...
A recent survey of senior IT security professionals revealed that an astonishing 74% were not sure that their company’s network had been breach free from a cyber attack sponsored by a foreign country. Article Excerpt: Businesses are losing the battle against...
Gone are the days when one had to be a computer genius to commit a cyber crime. Now there are programs that can assist non-tech savvy criminals. Article Excerpt: Combating cybercrime will become an uphill struggle, with the tools needed to commit technological crimes...
Scam artists in Virginia have been reported calling individuals, claiming to be either from the FBI or Microsoft. The scammers say that the individual’s computer has been hacked and request access to the computer, in an attempt to get at the individual’s personal...
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) typically perceive their cyber liability as less than that of huge publicly traded corporations. After all, there is a continual stream of news accounts these days about hackers breaking into a big company’s network, stealing...
