Category: Breaches

Why You Don’t Often Hear About Small Businesses Getting Hacked

When a major brand like Victoria’s Secret, MGM, or T-Mobile gets hacked, it’s all over the news. These companies are household names, and a breach affecting them often exposes millions of customer records, making it a national, or even global, story. But what about small…

Importance of Cyber Resilience: Embracing the Inevitable in Cybersecurity

We say it often, but the world of cybersecurity is constantly evolving. For many businesses, it’s no longer a matter of if a cyber-attack will happen but when. This harsh reality can be a tough sell to a C-suite focused on cost-cutting, as there’s no…

Unemployment Fraud

Last year is the year that keeps on giving, at least for the people stealing identities and filing for unemployment. It’s an understatement to say COVID-19 drastically affected employees around the country. Many employees ended up laid off, or entrepreneurs lost their businesses due to…

School Systems Receive Failing Grade for Cybersecurity Measures

As it turns out, many schools spend a lot of their money on teachers and students. Some spend money on new devices for the students, but in a recent New York Times article many school systems were called out for breaches and other cybersecurity issues. Attacked By…

How Kmart Could Have Prevented Its Credit Card System Security Breach

The recent news about a security breach involving unauthorized credit card activity at Kmart stores serves as a good reminder for businesses to set up in-depth security layering. According to an article from Krebs On Security, Kmart’s parent company, Sears Holdings, reported that “store payment…

The Wannacry Infection … not a problem if you practice cyber hygiene.

The Wannacry Infection: What it is I am sure that, over the weekend, you were inundated with news about the latest worldwide, The Wannacry Infection, cyber attack, infecting hundreds of thousands of systems around the world. Encryption occurred in the files of the affected computers…

The Democratic National Committee Hack: Lessons for Businesses Small and Large

The recently well-timed release of thousands of emails from DNC servers during the national convention by Wikileaks displayed demonstrates the potential disaster that awaits companies and organizations that do not take cybersecurity seriously. As is known, those emails contained information deemed sensitive to the DNC…