October 2014: It’s not a contest you want to win — which retail company can put the most customers at risk? The Home Depot is now leading the pack with its recent 56-million card breach. This tops Target’s 40-million card breach and all other runners up, including Neiman Marcus, Supervalu and P.F. Chang’s. Are there …
September 2014: Could your employees’ bad habits be putting your company at risk? Your employees don’t usually intend to be a weak link, but chances are they don’t fully understand what they’re supposed to do and why. Great policies help employees develop great habits! Great policies are short, clear, specific and easy to follow. Too …
August 2014: Mobile security was not that big a deal before smartphones leapt onto the scene. You just synced your contacts, calendar and email onto your Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) over USB and that was it. When WiFi and cellular data plans hopped in, PDAs and mobile phones fused into smartphones — BlackBerrys, specifically, became …
May 2014: One of the most widespread bugs ever to mess with the World Wide Web was just discovered — Heartbleed. To make matters worse, the bug has been around for two years! As most of the Internet scrambled to patch and protect itself from this massively pervasive security problem, many recommendations were tossed around. …
April 2014: Did you know you can rent malware-as-a-service from an underground market in much the same way you can rent a CRM or cloud storage from the above-ground market? Scammers shop for malware like businesses shop for software, choosing the best solution for their particular need – or caper. Here’s how the risks from …
March 2014: Think email phishing isn’t a big deal? Think again! Hackers sent phishing emails to one of Target’s HVAC vendors and got exactly what they were looking for — backdoor access into the retail giant’s network! Even if you don’t have point of sale (POS) devices, scammers can still get into your network by …
January 2014: Is a nasty piece of malware hiding inside your computer, waiting for instructions to turn itself on and suck up your personal information? Hopping horror! Recently nearly two million login credentials for more than 93,000 websites, including Facebook, Gmail, YouTube, Yahoo! Twitter and ADP, were stolen by “zombies.” Here’s how to find out …
December 2013: Good news! You can now decrypt CryptoLocker without paying a ransom. Follow the instructions — Leapfrog approved! It sounds like a fun app or a kids’ Halloween party game – CryptoLocker. Instead, it’s ransomware that’s infecting computers across the US and holding hard-drive data hostage. CryptoLocker gets onto your PC via an email attachment and runs …
November 2013: Are you including metadata tags on your company’s important files — tags like Private, Restricted, Classified or Super-Duper-007 Top Secret? If not, should you? Tagging your files is a key component of Data Leak Protection (DLP), which strategically protects data by monitoring it and blocking it from being shared with unauthorized people. Us …
September 2013: While you’re being super-diligent about protecting your company’s data, you may also to do something just as important: CYA. In this case, that also means Cover Your Assets! Cyber security insurance can cover you for things like data breaches, network damage, cyber extortion, damage-control PR and other unpleasantries, including the cost of getting …