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Survey Shows Muggles Still Don’t Get Data Breaches
People outside of the tech industry get more than a little confused when you talk about data breaches, identity theft, and pretty much any of the technical aspects of data security. Unfortunately, this...
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Study: Only 9% of Companies Feel Safe from Insider Data Threats
When talking about data security, it's easy to think only of outside threats (such as hackers and malware) and forget that many of the biggest dangers to data come from within an organization. Insider...
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Client Education: Best Ways to Invite a Data Breach
A Business News Daily article profiles the problems IT professionals face when trying to find efficient and safe file-sharing solutions for their customers. As it points out, finding an IT solution is...
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U.S. Government: Watch Out for Chinese Hackers and Data Thieves
You've probably heard a few news stories about hackers who work for the Chinese government and steal intellectual property from US firms. And you've probably wondered whether or not you should take...
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Don’t Forget to Floss Your Passwords: “Cyber Hygiene” Is the Latest in Data...
The former head of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff knows a thing or two about security. So when he says that cyber attacks are occurring at "unprecedented" levels, our ears perk up.In a recent...
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12% of iOS Users Are Screechin’ for a Breachin’ (a Data Breachin’)
According to Apple's iOS statistics, 12 percent of its users are still using old versions of the mobile operating system (iOS 6 or earlier), which puts them at serious risk for data breaches. As iOS 7...
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Tried and True: Phishing Scams Still Cause Data Breaches
Phishing attacks can strike organizations of any size. They are especially frustrating for IT professionals because they exploit a weakness that all organizations have: user error.Phishing attacks...
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eBay Data Breach Shows Danger of Phishing Attacks on Small Businesses
The Internet is abuzz with news that eBay is the victim of the latest data breach, and it's a big one. Business Insider reports that millions of users' logins, addresses, and personal information might...
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Addressing (Some) Physical Exposures for Data Breaches
California made news this summer when the state discussed a law that would require mandatory kill switches on smartphones, but as The Independent reports, Minnesota has just beaten the Golden State to...
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Symantec Says Antivirus Software Is Dead. What This Means for Your Clients
Security company Symantec declared in a recent Wall Street Journal article that antivirus software – one of its main products – is "dead," implying it is practically useless at deterring cyber attacks....
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2014 Cost of a Data Breach: 15% Higher
This time of year is an important one for data security research. Verizon publishes its review of the past year's data breaches, and the Ponemon Institute, a tech research organization, publishes its...
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4 Resources to Help You Track Your Hacks
If you’re a security expert or IT consultant, one of your professional responsibilities is to keep track of the security threats that could cause data breaches on your clients’ networks. Because the...
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Survey: Consumers Find Data Breaches Only Slightly Better than Oil Spills
New data breach research from Experian examines the effect data breaches have on consumers. With the recent wave of cyber crime and spree of data breaches, this is a hot topic. Experts are looking to...
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Data Breach Hangover: Target's Profits Down 12%
As an IT consultant, tech contractor, or programmer, you usually focus on security from the technical perspective, so it's easy to forget that it can have a real effect on a company's bottom line. Case...
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$4.8 Million HIPAA Settlement Over Data Breach Is Largest to Date
The National Law Review reports that the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently required two New York healthcare organizations to pay a joint $4.8 million settlement, the largest ever for a HIPAA data...
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Spotify Hack Shows BYOD Risks and Small Data Breach Costs
The Washington Post reports that Spotify – one of the leading online radio and music streaming services – was hacked, and though initial reports suggest that the data breach was an extremely small one,...
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It's Not Just You: Data Breaches Are Getting Sneakier
Symantec has released its 2014 Internet Security Threat Report, compiling data on trends in email security and cyber risk over the last two years. Here are some of the key findings:Malicious email...
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Cyber Crime Costing Almost as Much as Drug Crime
The Center for Strategic and International Studies has issued a report on the total cost of cyber crime, and what it found is astonishing. According to the Washington Post, this report (sponsored by...
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Google's "End-to-End" Like a Seatbelt for Email
For a long time, transportation safety advocates knew that seatbelts would save lives. However, it wasn't until the 1960s that manufacturers were required to install them in cars, and it wasn't until...
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Why Passwords Matter: The Tricky World of Cyber Insurance
The Columbus Dispatch reports that insurance companies don't yet have reliable models for calculating client cyber risk, so it's hard for them to write policies that cover all the exposures a client...
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