It can seem so legitimate. You get an email from a service you use asking you to change your password. You click on the link, which takes you to a website that looks authentic. You input your current login credentials and suggest a new password. Success! It says you’re done. But you’re not done. In fact, you haven’t achieved what …
There are plenty of access points for a hacker, and they’re often tied to our very high-tech devices – all the pieces of hardware with “smart” in front of them for one example. But sometimes our dinosaurs, the work-horse predecessors of our fast-paced IT, are the ones holding open a back door for security weaknesses. At Def Con 26, an …
In 2017, we saw more cyber attacks than any year before it. Businesses of all sizes are at risk and should be on high alert. The value placed on data security and preventing malicious activity must be higher in tandem. Here we outline six of the biggest threats to cloud security in 2018. Data breaches. Whether stored in the cloud …
2017 has seen more than a few major cyber attacks. From Equifax to Uber to WannaCry, millions of records have been breached. Here we explore the largest known data security breach, where it went off the rails, and what we can learn from it.
It’s easy to understand why businesses are increasing their security budgets after a year like 2017. We’ve seen an unprecedented level of cyber crime, from Equifax to WannaCry. While the cyber crime stories made the headlines, there were no doubt even more losses that occurred as a result of simple human error, many of which were never reported. Many companies …
