September may mean cooler weather, changing seasons and goodbye to summer. But for us at Experian it also meant a ton of hot activities like curating a back-to-school guest blog series and ramping up for our upcoming webinar about medical identity theft. Here’s what we were up to last month:Guest Blog Series: Back-To-School TipsThis August [...]
On September 24, 2014, Red Hat, Inc., the software company that provides a version of the Linux Operating System, indicated that its security team discovered a vulnerability in the command line interface functionality known as “Bash” (Bourne-Again Shell). This vulnerability, called “Shellshock,” is believed to pose a larger threat than the Heartbleed vulnerability that was [...]
According to USA Today contributor Steve Weisman, HealthCare.gov and Community Health Systems have experienced recent data breaches. Last week, officials said they learned that HeathCare.gov, the site that “hosts the federal insurance exchange on which millions of American have purchased health insurance,” was breached earlier in July, reported TIME’s Denver Nicks. During further investigation, it [...]
Our cyberSAFE series is back with another free webinar: join us October 21, 2014 at 12 PM CT to discuss medical identity theft and the rapidly approaching Electronic Medical Records Mandate.Many consumers are unaware of medical identity theft and the harm it can cause – both to their wallet and their health – yet this [...]
The story that filled this week's cyber security headlines involved a leak of nearly five million Gmail addresses and passwords. Alice Truong of Fast Company, described the leak saying, “A database reportedly containing 4.93 million Google usernames and passwords was uploaded late Tuesday to a Russian bitcoin forum, according to reports from Russian news outlets. [...]
This guest blog post is a part of our cyberSAFE blog series focusing on back-to-school security, privacy and identity topics. It comes to us from Tom Galvin, Executive Director of Digital Citizens Alliance. Tom is based in Washington, DC and has been active in Internet security and safety issues for over a decade. He is [...]
Earlier this year, our friends at the Identity Theft Resource Center published their latest breach statistics, showing that the healthcare industry accounted for nearly 44 percent of all breaches. According to Fortune reporter Laura Shin, 2013 “was the first time that the medical industry surpassed all others, and stood in stark contrast to the financial [...]
Usually August feels like one of the longest months of the year – especially in the blazing heat of our hometown, Austin, TX – but we can’t believe it’s already September! Take a look at what we were up to in August:In the Running for SXSW 2015As you know, we love to speak at South [...]
This guest blog post is a part of our cyberSAFE blog series focusing on back-to-school security, privacy and identity topics. It comes to us from Cynthia Lieberman, co-founder of CyberWise, the go-to-to source for busy adults who want to learn how to embrace digital media fearlessly, and the CyberWise Certified online learning program (check out [...]
In this week’s news, there has been a potential breach of multiple major financial institutions. Experts are analyzing the situation in an effort to provide consumers, businesses and other financial institutions with security solutions.Paula Mejia of Newsweek reported “hackers have stolen gigabytes of sensitive data from JPMorgan Chase and at least four other banks in [...]
