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...
How much of your personal information should a merchant be allowed to collect? What information does a merchant have a right to gather from you when you pay with a credit card? Should a merchant be barred from obtaining your zip code on the grounds that it is...
Small businesses possess all kinds of data that are virtual gold for cyber thieves, including Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, dates of birth, banking account information, and health insurance information. In the last article, we suggested four ways that...
Cyber crime has become widespread in the business world, and although larger companies have more loot for the bad guys to steal, small businesses are regularly targeted too. In fact, smaller firms are more vulnerable to cyber attacks in some ways. Small business...
