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Client Education Resources for Fighting Data Breaches
It's nice when someone does the work for you. This week, the Consumer Protection Bureau released a guide to preventing consumer data breaches, which is a helpful resource to use with clients.The...
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Developers: PayPal Wants You to Like Them (and Probably Also Wants You to...
PayPal recently ate a large slice of humble pie, acknowledging that it lost out on potential new business. The story goes that PayPal's service was never very developer-friendly. The online-payment...
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Don’t Let Your Employees Cause Your Next Data Breach
At the end of January, the Coca-Cola Company announced that nearly 80,000 of its private records had been compromised in a data breach. Among other things, the records contained some 20,000 Social...
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Data Breach Ripple Effects: The Scary Truth
How much does a data breach cost? Simply put, a data leak is very, very expensive. To make matters worse, you can pay for a data breach for years. The cost of the recent Target data breach, for...
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Why IT Contractors Shouldn’t Hold Their Breath for Universal Data Breach...
The design and implementation of data breach laws are complicated by the fact that breaches are often international. When a website is hacked, its users might be from many countries, and the hackers...
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Security Recommendations for Technology Businesses with Retail Clients
Earlier this week, SafeNet, a data asset security firm, published a report detailing the breakdown of 2013 data breaches by industry. The report revealed that data breaches affect various industries in...
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And Another One: Congress Proposes One More Data Breach Bill
A BankInfoSecurity article reports that Senator Jay D. Rockefeller (D – WV) submitted another data breach law in the Senate: the Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2014. Add it to the list of...
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End of XP Support from Microsoft Could Affect Retailers
According to a report by NetworkWorld, most point-of-sale systems rely on a scaled-down version of Windows XP, which means retailers could be in trouble when Microsoft stops supporting the OS this...
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Wearable Wallets = Losable, Hackable Wallets
IT professionals tend to hear conflicting stories when it comes to mobile wallets and digital currencies. Proponents talk about simple, easy transactions, while skeptics point out the numerous security...
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Is Your Refrigerator Running Malware?
NBC News reports that in six years there will be more than 30 billion internet-enabled devices, a huge increase from current levels. More and more products, from your refrigerator to your car to your...
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Proposed Bill Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switches to Fight Data Breaches
Four senators have proposed a bill that would require smartphone makers to include a "kill switch" to allow consumers to shut off phones and lock them after they're stolen. According to CNET, The...
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A Cure for Data Breaches?
In the last week, mobile phone companies have announced new products and features designed especially to enhance mobile data security. Here's what we've seen from some of the industry's heavy...
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Black to the Future: Better Security from the Next Class of Smart Phones?
In recent days, we've seen a slew of new mobile devices and apps designed to prevent data breaches. Last week's RSA conference in San Francisco provided developers, engineers, and tech companies a...
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Is It Time to Go Looking for Data Breaches?
Stop me if you've heard this one: a major U.S. retailer was hit with a massive data breach. It sounds familiar because it is. But this time, we're not talking about Target. We're actually talking about...
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Make Your Clients Safer: A Lesson in Email
According to a PressTV report, a recent study by HALOCK Security Labs revealed that email security problems are surprisingly common in the financial industry. More than 70 percent of mortgage lenders...
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Tech Firms Announce They’re Doing Risky Business
The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch reported this month on an incredible discrepancy between tech firms and other industries. Tech vendors and IT companies see their work as risky and susceptible to...
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Recommendations for IT Professionals Consulting on iOS Security
In the early 2000s, Apple was charming consumers with iPods and iMacs, but most of the business world still relied on Microsoft’s Windows operating system and favored non-Apple devices. When smart...
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Help Your Clients Understand the Risks from Third-Party Contractors
Your clients might use third-party vendors to outsource their payroll, HR, IT infrastructure, and all sorts of essential small-business functions. Unfortunately, as Business News Daily reports, this...
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What the Target CIO’s Resignation Reveals about Business Psychology
The Huffington Post reports that Target Corporation's Chief Information Officer, Beth Jacob, has resigned from her position as the company looks to regroup after the largest data breach in U.S....
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The Million-Dollar Client Conversation
Wouldn't it be great if there were a simple way to reduce the likelihood and cost of a data breach? Well, there is. Simply having a conversation can fix many of the misconceptions employees and clients...
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