Majority Of Businesses Aren’t Prepared For IT Risks
Does your IT staff include personnel who are dedicated to compliance or cybersecurity? How confident are you that your team is prepared to take today’s security threats head on? How likely are ...
There’s A Good Chance You’re On This Hacked Passwords List
Security researchers have stumbled across a vast treasure trove of hacked user accounts residing in a completely unprotected database online. The database contains more than 560 million user names, email addresses, passwords, ...
HP Keylogger Malware Gets Patch Fix
Sometimes, legitimate companies accidentally create malware. That’s certainly the case in this latest example. It was an innocent mistake, but some debugging code was inadvertently left in the code of an audio ...
IBM Finds Malware On Some Of Its USB Thumb Drives
Does your company use IBM Storwize? If you’re not sure what that is, then you probably don’t. It’s the company’s Big Data storage system, and when you purchase it, you get USB ...
WannaCry Ransomware Runs Rampant – New Variants Found
This past Friday, a new ransomware threat burst onto the scene globally in what was described as an attack “unprecedented in its scale.” Before the original version was stopped by a young, ...
HIPAA Fines Continue; New Focus On Signed Business Associate Agreements
Last year, the Department of Health and Human Services made headlines by issuing more than a dozen hefty fines to big companies that deal with Protected Health Information for noncompliance with HIPAA ...
Password Thefts Have Not Prompted Users To Change Password Habits
The newest big problem with data security is the same as the old big problem with data security. It’s the users. Specifically, it’s the fact that most people don’t bother to change ...
Attack On Health Firm Speaks To Real Threat For Everyone
On March 22, Urology Austin became the second medical company to suffer from a major breach. It was a particularly nasty one, combining data theft with a ransomware attack that impacted more ...
Ransomware Attackers Are Setting Their Sights On Small Businesses
Do you think your business is safe from a ransomware attack? It isn’t. This was indeed the case that when ransomware first burst onto the scene. Hackers were targeting very large institutions, ...
Another Major Data Leak Has Occurred – 1.4 Billions Users Affected
The internet is beginning to resemble the wild west, thanks to this latest data breach, which has exposed almost a billion and a half email addresses and a full range of other ...
