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 [...]
This week Verizon released their sixth annual Data Breach Investigations Report, analyzing more than 47,000 reported security incidences in 2012. The report found that 75 percent of data breaches were driven by financial motives and 20 percent of attacks fell in the cyber espionage category, targeting intellectual property.“Typically what we see in our data set [...]
Do you consider yourself a “safe surfer”? A “safe surfer” can be defined as someone who avoids the suspicious parts of the web, only downloads files that they are expecting, and one who inputs confidential data on only https sites. Even if you do practice these measures, you are still at risk. However, your level [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We recently hosted a webinar featuring Experian VP Marc Ostryniec and Toopher CEO Josh Alexander. Marc and Josh discussed consumer password habits, supplemented by statistics from our recent consumer survey. The two also revealed how these habits put consumers and businesses at risk for compromise, and what businesses can do to mitigate these risks now [...]
As mentioned in Part I of this post, security breaches are an imminent threat and danger. While there are many types of data that should be secured, finding concise ways to improve technology security can be difficult.Here are some steps and tips to improving your company’s information technology security.Companies can help improve information technology security [...]
In today’s world, companies need to be prepared to secure all assets including confidential documents and employee data, client enterprise data and customer data so that information does not get into the wrong hands. Companies should take all precautions and employ information technology security practices to avoid any compromised data in the event of a [...]
You’ve surely come across it—the “connect using Facebook” option on a variety of websites these days—but is it safe?Nearly half a million of Formspring’s hashed passwords were compromised this month. As The Verge’s Ellis Hamburger observed, Formspring CEO Alde Olonoh recommended that users login through Facebook Connect for a secure connection.According to Hamburger, “Implementing Facebook [...]
