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Innovative Malware Offers Another Argument against Jailbreaking
SecurityWeek reports on a new and innovative malware that hackers are using against jailbroken iOS mobile devices.The malicious software, dubbed iOS / AdThief or Spad, modifies various apps' SDK so...
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E-Discovery Firm's Growth Highlights Growing Cyber Liabilities All Around
One of the reasons we see an increasing number of large data breaches is simply because there's more data now than ever before. This data explosion is producing a growing market for IT companies that...
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Hacking Victims May Have a New Worry: FTC Penalties
This week on the blog, we've discussed the difficulties IT professionals have with data security laws: they don't know which data security laws (if any) they need to follow and they don't know how...
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AOL's New Privacy Policy More of a No-Privacy Policy
As MediaPost reports, AOL's recent changes to its privacy policy highlight how important it is for small-business owners to inform their customers about changes to their data collection, advertising,...
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Nightmare Lawsuit against App Developers Probably Costing Boatloads
MediaPost reports on a class-action lawsuit against app developers that has been going on for over two years after a number of big-name Internet companies downloaded iPhone users' address books onto...
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Netflix: Use Our Hack-Scanning Software
Though it might be most famous its binge-watch streaming service, Netflix has produced open source tools that can protect businesses from data breaches and DDoS attacks.According to The Register,...
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No Lack of Flack for "Hack Backs" after Attacks
There's the old playground philosophy: if you want to stop a bully, you need to fight back. That's exactly the approach some cyber security firms are taking when they offer "hack backs." There's just...
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Nude Photo Leak Raises Question of What a Data Breach Is
While the hacking of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and other celebrities' iCloud accounts has produced endless commentary, there's a big issue that IT professionals should be paying attention to: what...
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New Cold War Being Played Out in World of Data Breaches
The New York Times reports that Home Depot's data breach could affect 60 million users – 20 million more than the Target attack – which brings up new questions about the nature of these attacks.The...
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Home Depot Data Breach Lawsuit Raises Question: What Are "Reasonable"...
According Insurance Journal, only one day after Home Depot acknowledged that a data breach had exposed millions of its customers' credit and debit card information, a customer had already filed a...
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The Latest Oxymoron: Android Security
Maybe you weren't surprised when researchers at the University of New Haven posted a series of videos showing that many common Android apps contained serious data privacy flaws that could allow cyber...
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Can Insurance Protect Digital Assets?
Many of our clients wonder whether digital assets, such as data, digital media, and other intangibles, are covered by insurance. The answer to that question – like many things in the insurance world –...
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91% of Businesses Underestimate the Number of Cyber Threats They Face
If you had to pick a number, how many new variants of malware do you think threaten businesses each day? That was the question posed to roughly 4,000 IT professionals in a new data security survey from...
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Survey: Most Companies Still Counting Too Much on Antivirus Software
Kaspersky Labs released a report on IT risk management, and the numbers are alarming enough to strike fear into the hearts of IT professionals. Or, at the very least, the report will certainly leave...
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Privacy Policy, No Cloud Storage for Apple's Fitness Apps
While the tech media was intrigued by wearable technology and the growth of fitness and health apps, many savvy IT minds had serious doubts about how these devices would secure the massive amount of...
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Apple & Google: We Won't Snitch
In moves that acknowledge public distrust of police and government agencies following Edward Snowden's "big reveal," two leading smartphone providers – Apple and Google – have upped their security,...
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Antique Data Netting Canadian Man Thousands (So He Says)
This has been a huge year for data breach news – some of it was the "strange but true" variety. For example, take the recent story posted on Sophos's data security site Naked Security. Apparently, one...
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App Developer Faces $300,000 Fine for Collecting Children's Data
The FTC has strict regulations that protect Internet users under the age of 13, and if app developers aren't aware of these restrictions, they could face huge fines for data collection. In fact, a few...
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App Developer Faces $300,000 Fine for Collecting Children's Data
The FTC has strict regulations that protect Internet users under the age of 13, and if app developers aren't aware of these restrictions, they could face huge fines for data collection. In fact, a few...
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FBI Reports More Data Breaches from Disgruntled Employees
Last week, the FBI issued a cyber security warning, stating there’s been an increase in data breaches caused by disgruntled employees on or around the time they left their employer. Employees were...
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