According to Politico, Cyber criminals are actively targeting healthcare providers to access medical records. The patient data is sold, for as much as $500 per record, to other criminals who may then procure prescription drugs for resale, steal an identity, file...
Restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s Chinese Bistro is the most recent high-profile security breach, potentially impacting millions of customers. Cyber criminals targeted P.F. Chang’s nationwide locations, breaking through their security systems as early as September 2013. ...
Steve Haase of INSUREtrust was named Cyber Risk Industry Legend at the P&C industry’s first-ever Cyber Risk Awards presented by Advisen Ltd., the single source solution for insurance intelligence. Winning companies – determined by People’s Choice voting – took...
In the wake of last year’s massive Target breach, public awareness of data breaches has increased. More people are realizing that a cyber incident can be costly, difficult to repair, and might even directly affect their own personal information. Estimates are that up...
Businesses accepting debit and credit cards as a method of payment have an exposure to cyber attacks during the financial transaction process. The Target breach last year has been highly publicized because of its magnitude, obscuring the fact that cyber criminals are...
The growing popularity of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) usage in the workplace is a headache for the IT department. One security measure being implemented by some companies is “geo-fencing,” which limits sensitive data that can be accessed if the device is a certain...