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...
Each year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is responsible for collecting trillions of dollars in federal taxes and processing about 140 million tax returns. Because the agency’s computers house a vast amount of personally identifiable information, the potential...
As you may have heard by now, LinkedIn notified its users last week that it had been hacked. Out of about 150 million users, approximate 6 million had their passwords stolen and posted on a hacker web site. The breach of the social networking giant should come as no...
Passwords are worth their weight in gold to hackers. Once a cyber criminal figures out an employee’s password, he has an entry into the company network. From that point, using other tools, the hacker can steal just about anything he wants, and wreak havoc in the...
The nation is woefully unprepared for a major cyber attack, according to a new report released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Among 31 core capabilities identified as key for disaster responsiveness, cyber security came in dead last, with a...
