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Cyber Extortion is Real and Can Be Catastrophic
Cyber extortion might sound like the stuff of a Hollywood script, but it is a reality that more and more businesses are facing. At risk in a digital extortion attack is not only a company’s reputation and data, but also its ability to function and even its very...
Breaches and How to Respond to Them
Breaches aren't completely avoidable, even with good security measures in place. A zero-day vulnerability are easy to find, for example. You'll never get ahead of the hackers. But there are a lot of simple controls that aren't implemented that cause breaches, though,...
Employee mistakes a big source of data breaches
When you think of data breaches, the first thing that likely comes to mind is a hooded figure in a dimly-lit room plotting theft of all your valuable data. But according to a study published by CompTIA it isn't an unknown hacker that’s most likely to directly cause a...
Mobile Devices Pose Security Risks
Because smartphones and tablets are now ubiquitous, many companies have adopted “bring your own device” (BOYD) and “corporately owned, personally enabled” (COPE) policies to deal with their use in the workplace. Even with robust BOYD and COPE safeguards in place,...
Why SMBs Are Under Cyber Attack
Though corporate giants like Target, Anthem, and Home Depot get most of the media attention for cyber attacks, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are actually more likely to be attacked. Yes, you read that correctly. According to the Verizon 2013 Data Breach...
Data Destruction – Are You Prepared?
A hacker could come after your company's data at any time. Are you prepared? Trying to recover from a digital attack can be very costly – including hiring computer forsenics experts to figure out where the data leak came from and to plug the digital hole. Buy cyber...
Retail and Hospitality Industries Targeted by Cyber Thieves
Over the last couple of years, large breaches of major retailers such as Target, Home Depot, and Neiman Marcus have made it clear that the retail and hospitality industries are prime targets for cyber attacks. The reason is simple: A vast amount of personally...
Law Firms Are Pressed on Security for Data
In 2011, the Federal Bureau of Investigation met with managing partners of top law firms in New York and other major American cities to discuss the problem of online security, especially for law firms with offices in foreign countries. F.B.I officials and security...
Anthem Breach
As you may have heard already, Anthem Inc., the second-largest healthcare insurer in the US, announced on Wednesday that it was cyber attacked. Medical and personally identifiable information (PII) of 80 million customers and employees of the insurance colossus were...
Breach Fatigue – What Is It?
An interesting report from Ponemon and RSA indicate that even after huge data breaches many consumers aren't adjusting their behavior. Why? It comes down to a new term, coined "breach fatigue." In the wake of mammoth data breaches over the last year at some of the...
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