Deter, detect, and defend—three steps to reduce the risk of identity theft. Millions of Americans fall prey to identity thieves each year. Identity theft, according to the Federal Bureauof Investigation, is America’s fastest growing crime problem.That’s why our organization must always be on guard. Follow the Federal Trade Commission’s 3-D formula for reducing identity theft: 1.…
It’s easy to be overwhelmed when you think about the risks of failing to protect personal information. But we can reduce risk when we embed thinking about privacy into all stages of our work, rather than as a set of protections to be applied as an afterthought. This is what we call privacy by design.…
Common sense practices can help keep our organization’s information secure when you’re traveling or working remotely. In a recent survey, more than 75 percent of employees admitted to not using privacy guards when working in public places. With go-anywhere mobile devices, “work” can happen anywhere—at home, on a subway, in your hotel room, at a…
A messy desk, sloppy security habits, and lost mobile devices put company data at risk. Nearly 637,000 laptops are lost each year at U.S. airports, according to a recent survey. Most are lost at security checkpoints. Your mom’s right. Cleaning up after yourself is still important. Network attacks and security breaches by hackers get the…
If you also found yourself logged out of Facebook on Friday, you are not alone. Facebook forced more than 90 million users to log out and back into their accounts in response to a massive data breach. On Friday afternoon, the social media giant disclosed that some unknown hackers managed to exploit three vulnerabilities in…
The US-CERT has released a joint technical alert from the DHS, the FBI, and Treasury warning about a new ATM scheme being used by the prolific North Korean APT hacking group known as Hidden Cobra. Hidden Cobra, also known as Lazarus Group and Guardians of Peace, is believed to be backed by the North Korean…
