During a recent State of the Union Address, President Obama announced he had signed a new cyber security executive order. The President stated, “We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy.” Recent cyber-attacks against news outlets, major banks, the [...]
Could the combination of computer technology and employee misconduct jeopardize your data security? The answer is yes. Workplace computer misconduct threatens the security of important, sensitive company data every day. Insider fraud perpetrated by employees and contractors has become a common menace that could result in malicious attacks or data theft. Typically, organizations focus on [...]
Posted by the Stop.Think.Connect. Campaign Like most holidays, Valentine’s Day has extended to the web. With the click of a button, you can deliver flowers and candy, make reservations at a romantic restaurant, or search for that special someone through an online dating service. The Internet today has become an invaluable resource in both our [...]
It seems like every other month you hear another horror story about how someone’s personal information was stolen from a personal device. Cybercriminals have been relying on your unprotected devices as their source of income, and experts are predicting still another significant rise in the number of cyber attacks this year. Think about everything we [...]
A national pizza chain recently reported a data breach on its online credit/bank card system that allowed hackers to steal and duplicate 200 to 250 pizza-goer identities that have been found to be used in 26 states, as well as Africa and Asia. The police suspect an outside predator planted malicious software on the store [...]
Credit Card Fraud On The Rise According to annual Card Issuers’ Safety Scorecard Report released by Javelin Strategy and Research Organization, fraud prevention practices continue to decline, while fraud detection initiatives significantly increase. Javelin conducts an independent, third-party analysis of the top 23 US credit card issuers that examines consumer-facing security features related to fraud [...]
Being a happily married woman, the news of a hack on the E-Harmony dating site was not much of a concern for me. However, as an avid LinkedIn user, the hack that occurred on that particular business/social networking site caught my attention. Fortunately, my need for concern was small because I follow a few simple [...]
Rafal Los has an excellent blog post up about how to plan for failure in your information security program. Rafal makes the excellent point that not planning for the (inevitable) failure of your organization’s security controls is, in fact, failure itself. As I mentioned above, the primary failure in a situation where an organization is [...]
Brian Royer, writing over at Dark Reading, hits on a subject that I’ve been talking about more and more lately. Since the release of Verizon’s 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report, I can’t help but thinking that in most cases it’s not IT that will keep users safe, it’s a combination of management and best practices. The [...]
No, this isn’t some super suspenseful crime story. Rather, it’s a conversation about one of the most common security problems in technology today: bot networks. Unfortunately, being victimized by malware or a virus today often times means much more than just frustration and lost data. Today, those with malicious intent are able to use those [...]
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