Tag: hackers
Ransomware needs to be on your radar. Here’s why. Ransomware Review Ransomware is a cyberattack where cybercriminals take over an organization’s computer network with...
Human errors are the most common threats to exposing a person’s personal information to data breaches according to an analysis of reported data breaches...
According to EMC’s November 2012 fraud report, online holiday shopping is projected to account for 24% of the year’s total e-commerce sales which is good...
Today, those who steal data from the outside also usually steal the headlines. Witness recent mega-hacks at some very well-known firms: Electronics corporation: criminals...
Like Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire, we’d all like to think that we can depend upon the kindness of strangers. Unfortunately, Symantec...
For a company, a data breach can seem like it comes out of the blue. Yet, according to analysis by the Identity Theft Resource Center...
Our guest blogger this week is Karen Barney of the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). As an organization specializing in monitoring and tracking data...
Continual testing is one of the main tenants of data breach prevention. Your network has to remain secure to ward off attacks. The typical...
Just as technology is continuously evolving, so are the wily ways in which fraudsters circumvent the safeguards for changing technologies. Symantec’s study Internet Security...
Here’s a look at some of the resources I find useful in testing and training for a data b...
With the flood of online shoppers comes the accompanying tidal wave of fraudsters washing over the cheerful holiday landscape. Hidden behind the online mistletoe,...
Data breaches may conjure images of malicious hackers and global cyber gangs, but often the worst breaches come at the hands of a company’s...