Yahoo announced that they are planning to “recycle” inactive email accounts in order to free up old email addresses for active users. Security experts are worried that this move will allow criminals to claim identities of the inactive account’s previous owner.Mat Honan, senior writer at Wired who was attacked by hackers last year, called this [...]
Yesterday, in honor of National Small Business Week, we hosted this quarter’s cyberSAFE webinar, featuring a panel of experts who dove into why and how small businesses should tackle cyber security. We also published a white paper with findings from our recent survey of small business owners and their feelings toward cyber security, as well [...]
When it comes to small business cyber security, it is a different world today than in years past when a company only had to worry about protecting their desktop computers and locally stored files. Cyber security for small businesses has become incredibly complex causing small businesses to be increasingly targeted for cyber attacks.According to Symantec’s [...]
The Senate Appropriations Committee held a hearing about cybersecurity and workforce training this week during which Gen. Keith Alexander, chief of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S. Cyber Command, testified. Recent scrutiny on the NSA’s surveillance government programs – which has collected millions of telephone records and monitored Internet activity – were [...]
This blog post comes from Melissa Smith, HR Generalist at Experian. Not only has Experian been increasing our market share, but our team has been growing as well. In 2012, Experian grew to over 100 employees, an impressive year to year increase of over 40%! This tremendous growth spurred the move to our spacious new [...]
We were happy to co-host a live Twitter chat (#IDTheftChat ) with the Identity Theft Resource Center this past Thursday. The chat covered cybersecurity in small businesses, exploring how small businesses are currently protecting their businesses, customers and employees from threatening cyber criminals, data breaches, malware and data loss.We had a great turnout, with highly [...]
The Ponemon Institute reported that out of the 29 percent of small businesses who experienced a cyber attack, 72 percent were not able to fully restore their company’s computer data. The causes of these cyber attacks included computer viruses, worms and Trojans and malware.In addition to data loss, the small businesses who experienced a computer-based [...]
We’ve made it a practice here at Experian to pick a security topic to focus on each quarter. For each topic we conduct a unique research survey, create a white paper and schedule a webinar with leading security experts to discuss the topic. Our goal with this practice is to create a number of resources [...]
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 [...]
