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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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In Data Security, Compliance Isn't Enough
The Telegraph reports a paradigm shift taking place among IT industry leaders: more data security consultants are realizing that merely complying with security regulations isn't enough to protect...
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A Simple Way to Keep Your Clients' Data Safer? (Bonus: It Might Help...
USA Today reports on the new app Authy, which offers a two-factor authentication service that developers can easily integrate into websites and web apps.But what is two-factor authentication (2FA)?...
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Loss, Theft of Devices Still Among the Most Common Data Breaches
The Dallas Morning News details a recent data breach in which a number of laptops with patient records were stolen from the back of city ambulances between 2011 and 2014. Do stolen computers count as...
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Some Small IT Biz Inspiration to Remind You Why You Do This
ZDNet's blog analyzes the tech media's response to the alleged hack of Dropbox and finds that many security recommendations offered by bloggers fall short. As it turns out, Dropbox was never hacked....
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Phishing by the Dock of eBay
CIO Today reports eBay was hacked…again. Over the summer, nearly 145 million passwords were exposed, but this time hackers used a different approach to harvest data.Because eBay allows JavaScript and...
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Beyond Passwords and PINs
From an IT perspective, a password or PIN is not a hallmark of security – it's a necessary evil. Ideally, there'd be a more secure way of encrypting and transferring data, but as it is, we're stuck...
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Secure Message Scorecard: How Do Your Favorite Apps Measure Up?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is reviewing messaging apps and scoring them for security. You can see the results on a new Secure Messaging Scorecard posted on the group's website.The first...
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62% of Americans Worry about Smartphone Hacking; 53% Don't Secure Their Phones
According to a new Gallup poll, cyber crime is now the crime that most Americans worry about it. The new survey shows these startling numbers:69 percent of Americans worry about having their credit...
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USPS Hack Exposes Non-Transactional Data
When people hear the words "data breach," they often think of identity theft and the loss of credit card information. But as the recent hacking of the United States Postal Service demonstrates, data...
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Does Biometric Data Mean the End of Passwords? Visa & MasterCard Think So
Threatpost details new payment authentication technology from two credit card companies, Visa and MasterCard, which hope to improve security by using biometric data like fingerprints and cardiac...
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A Simple Way to Keep Your Clients' Data Safer? (Bonus: It Might Help...
USA Today reports on the new app Authy, which offers a two-factor authentication service that developers can easily integrate into websites and web apps.But what is two-factor authentication (2FA)?...
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Loss, Theft of Devices Still Among the Most Common Data Breaches
The Dallas Morning News details a recent data breach in which a number of laptops with patient records were stolen from the back of city ambulances between 2011 and 2014. Do stolen computers count as...
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Some Small IT Biz Inspiration to Remind You Why You Do This
ZDNet's blog analyzes the tech media's response to the alleged hack of Dropbox and finds that many security recommendations offered by bloggers fall short. As it turns out, Dropbox was never hacked....
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Phishing by the Dock of eBay
CIO Today reports eBay was hacked…again. Over the summer, nearly 145 million passwords were exposed, but this time hackers used a different approach to harvest data.Because eBay allows JavaScript and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beyond Passwords and PINs
From an IT perspective, a password or PIN is not a hallmark of security – it's a necessary evil. Ideally, there'd be a more secure way of encrypting and transferring data, but as it is, we're stuck...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Secure Message Scorecard: How Do Your Favorite Apps Measure Up?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is reviewing messaging apps and scoring them for security. You can see the results on a new Secure Messaging Scorecard posted on the group's website.The first...
View ArticleClik here to view.
62% of Americans Worry about Smartphone Hacking; 53% Don't Secure Their Phones
According to a new Gallup poll, cyber crime is now the crime that most Americans worry about it. The new survey shows these startling numbers:69 percent of Americans worry about having their credit...
View ArticleClik here to view.
USPS Hack Exposes Non-Transactional Data
When people hear the words "data breach," they often think of identity theft and the loss of credit card information. But as the recent hacking of the United States Postal Service demonstrates, data...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Does Biometric Data Mean the End of Passwords? Visa & MasterCard Think So
Threatpost details new payment authentication technology from two credit card companies, Visa and MasterCard, which hope to improve security by using biometric data like fingerprints and cardiac...
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