What you can do to help our organization become cyber-smart. The most haunting part of 2015’s cyberattack against healthcare provider Anthem Inc. wasn’t, that the personal information of 80,000 million consumers were strewn all over the internet, or even that it may end up costing the company upwards of $16 billion. It’s that, in terms…
Earlier this month, reports surfaced which suggested that Cosmos Bank, India’s oldest at 112 years old, had become the victim of a cyberattack which left the institution millions out of pocket. The attack reportedly took place in two stages been August 10 – 13. According to the Hindustan Times, malware was used on the bank’s…
Make sure what you throw away doesn’t fall into criminal hands. How do you dispose of sensitive paper documents? You shred them. Easy answer, right? But what about the business information that only exists electronically? Delete is not enough. Electronic data lingers, like a ghost, long after you hit the DELETE key. Deleting removes the…
Well, there’s something quite embarrassing for Apple fans. Though Apple servers are widely believed to be unhackable, a 16-year-old high school student proved that nothing is impossible. The teenager from Melbourne, Australia, managed to break into Apple servers and downloaded some 90GB of secure files, including extremely secure authorized keys used to grant login access…
Target’s 2013 data breach reportedly cost the company $252 million; Sony pictures will spend an estimated $35 million in investigation, remediation, and IT repairs for its hack; Home Depot spent $43 million in just one quarter; and it’s estimated that the total cost of Anthem’s 2015 data breach will reach more than $31 billion. Getting…
You have a new status update: “A thief is enjoying a vacation to Hawaii—and you paid for it!” Impossible, you say? On a recent phishing expedition, identity thieves used fake login pages to catch usernames and passwords from social networking site Facebook.com. They first spammed Facebook users through the site’s mail system with one-line messages…
