Hackers recently posted 6.5 million unique hashed passwords from LinkedIn, with already 200,000 of these passwords cracked. LinkedIn is a global social networking site for professionals—and it’s likely that many of the site’s users use the same password with other sites, including online retail stores, news websites and sites related to their employers.What does this [...]
When a company is breached, it suffers more than just data exposure and recovery expenses—the company brand can take a significant hit. Studies show that data breaches often have long-term effects on brand value. Organizations that have been breached have reported losing anywhere from $184 million to more than $300 million in brand value per [...]
By: Joel Carleton, Experian Director of Cyber EngineeringWe’ve all heard that it’s important to pick long, complicated passwords. What you may not realize is why this becomes crucial in the context of a breach. While ensuring you don’t pick from some of the most common passwords is important, it’s still not enough. Some background information on how passwords [...]
The Center for Identity at the University of Texas at Austin held the first annual ID360 Conference this week. Experian was there in support of our VP of sales Marc Ostryniec, who presented on how proactive credential monitoring can reduce the risk of fraud that is an inherent problem when employees mishandle company credentials or [...]
It’s hard to believe that South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) is already two weeks in the past. We spent eight months planning and prepping for the event—during which Experian hosted three panels—then it came and went in a flash. In fact, we already have SXSW 2013 on our radar. Before we get ahead of ourselves [...]
At last week’s South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) festival, Experian hosted three panels that addressed hot security topics, including voice authentication, cloud security and data breach preparedness. “Data Breaches: Taking the Bull by the Horns,” moderated by Experian President Joe Ross, sparked a number of audience questions and Twitter chatter. We’ve gathered a handful of Tweets [...]
What is the first step your business should take after being breached? How can you minimize impact to your brand after a breach? What should you do to prepare for a breach?These questions will be at the heart of Experian’s panel “Data Breaches: Taking the Bull by the Horns” at this week’s South by Southwest [...]
Headed to South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference in Austin, Texas this month? So is Experian. We’ve been working hard, organizing three SXSW panels that address today’s hottest security concerns: data breach preparedness, cloud security and voice authentication. The increase in volume, severity, publicity and fallout of recent data breaches and lack of cyber-security has [...]
In honor of Data Privacy Day on January 28, initiated by the National Cyber Security Alliance, we have compiled a few simple best practices for businesses to protect and secure valuable data. Password Changes Encourage or require employees to regularly change passwords used for company servers, email and programs every 90 days. This will help [...]
By John Sileo, Experian consumer security expert Let’s say you ordered winter boots for your spouse on Zappos.com (now part of Amazon), which has world-class customer service. You don’t really even shop the competition because someplace in your brain you already trust Zappos to deliver as they always have. Your unquestioned confidence in Zappos is [...]
