This past month was a proud one for Experian – with new faces, a new Austin office and various community outreach initiatives.Welcome to Experian, Kent BloomstrandWhile Kent took his post at Experian as Chief Technology Officer back in April, we told the world in May. Kent came to us from OpenText Corporation, and we look [...]
The US Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property released an 89-page report assessing how international intellectual property theft affects the United States. The report claims that there is more than $300 billion annually in intellectual property theft, and US Cyber Command commander General Keith Alexander calls this theft “the greatest transfer of wealth [...]
Next week, we’re partnering up with the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) to co-host their monthly Identity Theft Twitter Chat (#IDTheftChat). With National Small Business Week coming up in June, ITRC and Experian will hone in on security issues that affect small businesses. Many small businesses are unaware that 20 percent of all cyber attacks [...]
This week, Twitter introduced a two-factor authentication login security measure that users can opt into, helping to protect users from email phishing schemes or password breaches. Users need a confirmed email address and a verified phone number on their account to set up the login verification feature on their Twitter settings page.“The two-factor system mirrors [...]
NSS Labs recently published a comparative analysis of leading web browsers, examining each browsers’ ability to block malware downloads. They conducted a month-long test with the top five Internet browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera) against 754 samples of malicious software. According to the results, the browser that protects against malware the best [...]
One in 10 children are targeted for identity theft. This rate is often higher for the 380,000 children in the foster care system. As May is National Foster Care Month, it is important to recognize that foster children are prime targets for identity theft for a number of reasons. Their Social Security Numbers go with [...]
“Web-borne attacks are on the rise as cybercriminals and others who do harm to computer systems for profit or malice prey on the web’s areas of vulnerability, and businesses are feeling the effects of the attacks on their resources. Currently the weakest link is the web browser. Vulnerabilities in browser add-ons like Java, Flash and [...]
In the 2013 BYOD and Mobility Security Report, 70% of respondents cited security as the top criteria for success when implementing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs. The report, sponsored by Lumension Security, interviewed 1,650 information security professionals around the world, the majority of which represent organizations between 10 and 99 employees.Nathan Eddy of eWeek reported that security [...]
Take a look at what we’ve been up to this past month, including a number of community events in our headquarter hometown, Austin, TX:Experian at ID360Being headquartered near the University of Texas gave us the opportunity to participate in ID360, an annual conference put on by UT’s Center for Identity. This year, three Experian members [...]
In the latest Annual State of the Net Consumer Report about 58.2 million American home PCs were affected with at least one malware infection, causing an estimated $4 billion in repair costs. "Our Annual State of the Net Report revealed that home computers are no safer than they were last year," said Jeff Fox, technology [...]
