Earlier this week The New York Times reported Russian criminals had amassed 1.2 billion username and password combinations from companies across the globe. A breach of this magnitude can leave some consumers wondering if these massive breaches will ever stop and what, if anything, they can do to protect themselves.At Experian, we see 70 to [...]
Can you believe how quickly this summer is flying by? We stayed busy this July and had some great highlights – like that time we collected school supplies for kids in need, or that time our CFO was named one of the best in Austin. Here’s what we were up to in July:Back-To-School DonationsIn July [...]
Have you eaten a P.F. Chang’s lately? If so, you may want to check your email. This morning the restaurant chain sent out emails to customers that dined at 33 of the chain’s 211 locations between October 19, 2013 and June 11, 2014 saying that their credit and debit card information may have been stolen. [...]
Mobile security will be a major focus during next week’s Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas. During the conference, Mathew Sonik, a 20-year-old security consultant at Accuvant, Inc., along with several others, will be presenting their mobile hacking techniques.According to Danny Yadron of The Wall Street Journal shared, Solnik and his associates “can take [...]
This guest blog post comes to you from Ivan Serrano, a technology, business and social media writer and infographic specialist from San Jose, California. In his free time, Ivan loves marveling at the wonders of modern technology and gets wound up in his photography in San Francisco. We’re all aware of the dangers of hackers [...]
This week, Reuters released news that security experts Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller plan on displaying an "intrusion prevention device" in a prototype vehicle during August’s Black Hat hacking 2014 conference. This prototype will demonstrate ways to keep vehicles safe from cyber attacks.The automotive industry is finding that cyber criminals are using vehicles’ electronics to [...]
This month, the U.S. Secret Service issued a warning about the increasing practice of hackers installing keylogger malware on computers in hotel business centers. The malware captures keys struck by hotel guests that use the computers and then sends that information via email to the malicious hacker. The result – any sensitive information the traveler [...]
While credit card fraud and identity theft have been hot topics over the past year due to a spate of massive data breaches, experts warn that medical identity theft should not be overlooked. Politico’s David Pittman reports that the Identity Theft Resource Center has identified 353 breaches so far this year across different industries, and [...]
This week, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence approved the Cyber Information Sharing Act (CISA). While some consider this bill to be a big step towards improving cyber security, others find it controversial.Gregory McNeal of Forbes explains, “the bill is intended to help companies and the government thwart hackers and other cyber-intrusions. The bill passed [...]
The security of transactions and payments is a hotly debated topic around the world. Which methods are most secure? Which should we all adopt? And why one over the other?But before we start diving more into the debate on this topic, how about a simple introduction? Let’s define some of the major terms and security [...]
