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Facebook at Work: A Data Security Issue?
Many employers block access to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites in order to keep their employees focused on the task at hand. But now IT professionals might have new reasons to limit...
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Mobile Security Update: 1 in 10 Android Apps Is a Virus
HackSurfer reports on the sorry state of cyber security on the Android platform where 1 in 10 apps contains malware. Yikes.You read that correctly: 10 percent of Android apps are malware. Over the last...
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IT Professional's Firing Would Have Been a Lawsuit for an IT Contractor
The Arizona Republic reports that Miguel Corzo, a community college IT employee who had been working in the district for 30 years, has been fired after his actions led to a data breach that has already...
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California Data Breach Law Raises as Many Questions as It Answers
IT consultants are subject to a variety of state laws. Your legal responsibilities change from state to state, and each new court ruling – such as the one that just occurred in California – can...
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Class Action Suit against eBay over Data Breach Seeks $5 Million in Damages
As Computer World reports, a newly filed lawsuit against eBay shows how data breaches are becoming big business for lawyers.The breach, which was discovered in February, has led to a $5 million class...
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DDoS Is the New Black
CNET reports that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have occurred at an unprecedented rate in the first half of 2014. This year has already had more than twice the amount that occurred in...
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When Deleting Malware Isn't Enough
Citadel, a particularly potent strain of banking malware, has been pestering IT security consultants for the last two years. ThreatPost reports that the latest strain has found a way to return to...
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Mega-Breach Is an Excellent Client Education Opportunity
When Target's data breach hit the front pages, many small-business owners saw it as evidence that hackers only go after big business. But the latest – and largest– data breach, which stole 1.2 billion...
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Black Hat Security Conference: Hackers Can Steal Your Car
Last week's Black Hack security conference brought exposure to countless security flaws in nascent Internet-of-Things technology. CBS News reports that security consultants have found ways to...
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Old Technology Is a Cyber Liability
In last week’s blog post, "Black Hat Security Conference: Hackers Can Steal Your Car,” we looked at how new technology – the Internet-of-Things and Internet-enabled cars – exposed consumers to greater...
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Facebook Color-Changer Malware Has Users Feeling Blue
TechHive reports that over 10,000 users have fallen victim to a Facebook-based malware attack. Like other schemes before it, the color-changer malware purports to allow users to customize their...
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How Much Does a Data Breach Cost?
The final cost of a data breach can be hard to pin down. Dozens of factors affect the cost of a breach, and you can’t know what the total price tag will be until the dust settles. Sometimes, that takes...
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Survey: 80% of IT Security Professionals Overestimate Their Data Breach...
BroadwayWorld reports on a new cyber security survey, which shows that 80 percent of IT professionals think they can detect a data breach within a week. That would be great news if it were true. In the...
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Only 1% of Cloud Service Providers Meet Proposed EU Regulations (and Why This...
The European Union's new data security regulations could come into effect as soon as 2015 or 2016 (they aren't law yet), but as ZDNet reports, practically no cloud service providers are prepared to...
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CDD Complaint Suggests We're in the "Wild West" Stage of Digital Privacy
ITworld reports on a brewing data security dispute between a group of 30 U.S. companies and the privacy watchdog Center for Digital Democracy. Companies such as AOL and Adobe have been accused of not...
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Study: Half of Businesses Will Hire IT Security Contractors by 2018
A study recently published by technology research firm Gartner shows that spending on IT security has increased 7.9 percent so far in 2014, to $71.1 billion. Based on trends, the firm predicts that...
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DDoS Is the New Black
CNET reports that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have occurred at an unprecedented rate in the first half of 2014. This year has already had more than twice the amount that occurred in...
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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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