This week, The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) announced the launch of an intelligence center where retailers can exchange information about data breaches and threats to help protect against cybercrimes.According to the Associated Press, RILA’s president Sandy Kennedy said that retailers have a common goal: to protect their business against cyber threats.“It’s really in everyone’s [...]
Let’s face it: employees can be a weak link in your business’ security. Human error accounts for 80 percent of company breaches, showing that the security industry and businesses have a long way to go to educate employees on security awareness.In the spirit of National Small Business Week, a time to reflect on the contributions [...]
Our Experian cyberSAFE series is back with another great webinar: June 10 at 12 pm CT on SMB security.As a small business owner, your security needs are constantly changing as your business grows. When starting a business, security risks are tied closely to your personal and business credit. As the size and scope of your [...]
Late last week, it was reported that a flaw in an online security technology could likely expose social media users personal information to malicious actors.Jodi Mardesich of ReadWrite, comments, “It's not the next Heartbleed, but a security flaw in social-login services gives you one more thing to watch out for in apps and on the [...]
May 4 through May 10 is Privacy Awareness Week (PAW), an initiative of the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) held every year to promote awareness of privacy issues and the importance of the protection of personal information. To commemorate this week, we would like to share a few of our favorite privacy resources.To highlight the [...]
This week, the White House joined the conversation about the current state of cybersecurity when it shared its policies on alerting the public to threats and vulnerabilities.According to David Sanger of The New York Times the discussion started when Michael Daniel, White House cybersecurity coordinator, published a post to the White House blog discussing the [...]
The first half of April sure was a busy one for us, with plenty of industry events, workshops and webinars. Then, we had a little more creative fun towards the end of the month. Let’s dive in.We Hosted #cyberSAFEchat About Child ID Security and PrivacyOn April 7th we hosted a #cyberSAFEchat Twitter chat about child [...]
We love data here at Experian, and one of the things we look forward to each year is Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This annual report takes a look at the past year’s cyber security incidents and identifies trends, statistics and provides analysis. This year’s report looked at over 63,000 global security incidents from [...]
Symantec’s 2014 Internet Security Threat Report recently revealed that spear phishing campaigns increased 91 percent in 2013. In addition to the increased number of spear phishing* campaigns, cyber criminals are also using stronger phishing tactics, Stacy Collett at Network World reports. Collett shared Chief Hacker at Social-Engineering.org Chris Hadnagy’s experience with spear-phishing. He has seen [...]
The Pew Research Center recently released the results of their January 2014 survey that found a growing number of U.S. adults have experienced a personal data breach. Results showed that “18 percent of online adults have had important personal information stolen such as their Social Security Number, credit card, or bank account information. That’s an [...]
