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Background Check Firm that Cleared Edward Snowden Suffers Data Breach
According to the Washington Post, USIS – the background check company that botched Edward Snowden's screening process – was in the midst of one of its worst years when it found out that it had been the...
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Security Is Everyone's Job: Lessons from a Weak-Password Hack
Prairie Business Magazine reports on the data breach at the North Dakota University System that exposed almost 300,000 users' data. In addition to the sheer size of the breach, what makes it remarkable...
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Why a Cyber Attack at Your Bank Could Be Terrible News
While individual consumers can be reimbursed for fraudulent charges on their bank accounts, it's much harder for businesses to recover damages related to a cyber heist. This means it's important for IT...
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Dairy Queen's Data Leaked Like Ice Cream from a Cone on a Hot Day
As a last hurrah before summer fades, hackers got a taste for ice cream and decided to attack the summertime staple Dairy Queen. We're only partially kidding.In the winter, we saw hackers go after...
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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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Malvertising: A New Headache for IT Consultants
According to Threatpost, more than 10,000 users have been affected by a growing "malvertising" ring, which posts fake ads that contain malware. The astonishing thing about this network of malvertisers...
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Will There Be Unforeseen Security Issues with Apple Pay?
As news swirls that Dairy Queen and Home Depot's point-of-sale systems were hacked, Apple has announced its new mobile payment service, “Apple Pay,” claiming that it will replace outdated credit card...
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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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Will There Be Unforeseen Security Issues with Apple Pay?
As news swirls that Dairy Queen and Home Depot's point-of-sale systems were hacked, Apple has announced its new mobile payment service, “Apple Pay,” claiming that it will replace outdated credit card...
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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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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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Adobe Update Part 1: Something to Talk About (With Clients)
According to ThreatPost, Adobe was all set to roll out a new version of Reader when software testing revealed the update was full of flaws and security holes that would have exposed millions of users...
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Adobe Update Part 2: A Look at Professional Liability for Software Developers
The backstory behind Adobe's latest patch shows hazards that all software and app developers face. According to a ThreatPost article, Adobe was about to release updates to its Reader and Acrobat...
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Banking Trojans: Not Just for Banks Anymore
Innovation is the name of the game in IT, but the same holds true in the seedy world of cyber crime, where hackers are always changing their strategies and finding new ways to use old malware. Let's...
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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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