If a company is breached, should the breach be reported to authorities? To customers? To the public? While breach disclosure laws have been debated on and off for the past few years, it looks like they are making it back into the spotlight.Many companies would prefer to keep security breaches to themselves – to avoid [...]
Another year has come and gone and what a year it was! Experian looks back at the top five identity and security stories of 2012.Number 5: Anonymous claims it hacked PayPal, PayPal denies itOn its Twitter account, Anonymous claimed to have more than 28,000 passwords from PayPal, but the online purchasing store verified that the [...]
This week the FTC released an alarming reporton mobile apps, announcing that hundreds of popular smartphone and tablet apps aimed at children are collecting personal data and sharing without proper disclosure to parents. Of the 400 apps surveyed from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store for Android, 60 percent sent the devices’ ID [...]
It’s that time of year again! As you finish your holiday décor and put your gifts under the tree, make sure you stay safe while shopping for your loved ones online this season with these quick tips.Make sure your devices are up-to-date. Any device you use for shopping; including smartphones, tablets and computers; should have [...]
As we mentioned in our last blog post, malware is surging. According to McAfee, mobile malware grew two-fold last quarter, and Kaspersky found that there has been rapid growth in the number of malware programs targeting Android devices specifically. Most notably, McAfee says there was a 23% increase in new types of malware last quarter [...]
This week Symantec announced their “Top 5 Security Predictions for 2013.” The company listed some interesting trends and the article definitely warrants a read-through. This list also got us thinking about our own predictions for 2013. Here are a few we see happening: Your email address and password will become more valuable to identity thieves. Think [...]
This year has shown just the start of threats to mobile devices and the applications that run on them. Employees and individuals are moving primarily to mobile devices and applications for most of their daily computing needs. Cybercriminals are very aware of this trend in mobile devices and applications and have been putting more and [...]
It's something you see in cartoons and science fiction movies – a character goes into a secured area and either their hand or eye is scanned to grant them access. In real life, that practice is called biometrics, or the use of personal traits such as fingerprints, hand scans, eye scans or vocal patterns to [...]
“Password” is holding its number one spot as the least secure password for another year in a row. Pretty spooky considering Halloween is just around the corner. SplashData just released its annual list of the most common passwords used on the Internet and posted by hackers.Here’s a quick list of the top 20 “Worst Passwords [...]
In honor of National Cyber Security Awareness Month and Protect Your Identity Week (Oct. 20–27), we’d like to share a few tips to keep you and your business safe, secure and prepared.Be smart and aware. Many people have the mindset that identity theft won’t happen to them, but it’s one of the fastest growing crimes, [...]
