This guest blog post comes from Russ Warner, CEO of ContentWatch – makers of parental control software, Net Nanny. Remember when you brought your first date home? My siblings delighted in showing her embarrassing photos of me. Well, there isn't much reason to pull out the ole photo album anymore. Most people can "friend" you [...]
We’ve talked a lot about passwords on this blog, including how ineffective they are as a method of authentication. Over the past decade, many businesses, government organizations and non-profits have been trying to solve the password conundrum and come up with an authentication method that is secure, easy and simple enough that your grandmother can [...]
Last week a group of Experian employees visited a popular Austin movie theater, the Alamo Drafthouse, to catch a private showing of “Identity Thief,” the new comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman. It was a fun outing with our co-workers, but of course, being in the identity and data protection business, we couldn’t help [...]
The holidays are a time to celebrate with family, friends and loved ones, but the holidays are also filled with scams. With Valentine’s Day festivities come and gone, it’s an opportune time for thieves to prey on victims when they’re most vulnerable – in love or alone. Here’s a recap of some of the top [...]
This Tuesday was Safer Internet Day – a day dedicated to honoring safe Internet habits. In the past year, we’ve seen our fair share of data breaches in the news, so it’s important to be aware of your online habits, and what you’re doing to protect yourself and your business. So what better way to [...]
We’re adding another element to our blog – a weekly news recap of the week’s hottest industry news stories from our Tumblr page to help you stay on top of what’s happening now.This week was a hot one for privacy news as Monday was Data Privacy Day. Here are a few of our favorite privacy [...]
Recently the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published an amendment to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), an important development in protecting children's privacy online. Most notably, the FTC updated the definition of “personal information” to include IP and location information. What this means – parents now have greater control over what information can be [...]
Knowing the emerging and continuing trends of threats in cybersecurity gives us an idea of where to start improving for the new year. Cyber criminals historically have followed the trends of the majority of the cyber community. Their goal is to negatively impact as many individuals and corporations as possible. With that said, it is [...]
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 [...]
