When we say “It’s when, not if,” we mean it. GoldenEye, a new strain of the Petya family of ransomware, turned the digital world on its head Tuesday morning after initiating from a cyberattack in Kiev, Ukraine. From there,… Read More ›
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Ransomware Stakes Keep Growing
IT officials keep thinking they’ve done all they need to keep Crypto and other ransomware variants at bay. And they keep running into unexpected surprises. Problem is, those surprises cost more than ever. When Cryptolocker ushered in a new… Read More ›
Who’s Watching Your Stuff: A Watch Out Wednesday Update
You take $86,000 here, and $86,000 there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money. A recent survey revealed a single cyber-security incident now costs the average American small or medium business $86,500. For Enterprises, the number is nearly ten times… Read More ›
Ho-Ho-Hold On Before You Click That Link: Tips For Safe Online Shopping
We’re in the midst of the holiday season and its accompanying shopping frenzy. In our modern age of technology, more and more consumers are avoiding the crowds and long lines and turning to the internet to purchase their gifts. In… Read More ›
Data Breaches Up By 28%; Florida One Of Most Vulnerable States
There has been a 28 percent increase in data breaches since last year, according to a new report from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). The center reports that there have been 901 data breaches recorded this year through November… Read More ›
Dyn Suffers Unprecedented Cyberattack
Friday is usually a great day to surf the web, check your twitter feed or update your social media status. But a major cyberattack this past Friday broke the internet, or at least parts of it, and affected users access… Read More ›
Healthcare Data Breaches Have Cost Industry $6.2 Billion
We’ve been talking a lot this year about the surge in data breaches plaguing the healthcare industry. So it comes as no surprise that a recent study by Ponemon Institute found that the increase has cost the industry about $6.2… Read More ›
The Day The Hackers Got Hacked
Even hackers are not immune to cyber attacks. The email addresses and private messages of over 470,000 members of a major online hacking forum have been leaked following a data breach earlier this month. Nulled.io, whose tagline is “expect the… Read More ›
117 Million LinkedIn Passwords Stolen In 2012 Are Now For Sale
A hacker known in the Dark Web as “Peace” is trying to sell the account information, including login credentials, of 117 million LinkedIn users. The social network admitted to the massive data breach after the hacker offered the stolen data… Read More ›
Open Source Security Vulnerabilities Rarely Patched
Few would argue that the open source movement provides a convenient and cost-effective way for developers to build applications. But according to a new study, once that code makes its way into an app, it’s rarely updated to fix newly… Read More ›
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