Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
The more one uses and shares on social media, the more information is publicly available for cyber attackers to use to exploit users’ personal and professional information.
It is hard for people to realize that every single thing shared on any social media platform is available for friends and foes alike to access and use.
On July 19, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigations issued a Private Industry Notification to service providers and “entities associated with the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics that cyber actors who wish to disrupt the event could use distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, ransomware, social engineering, phishing campaigns, or insider threats to block or disrupt…
You probably heard about the recent hack of Twitter accounts that took place on July 15, 2020. The hackers took over several prominent Twitter accounts, which resulted in a scam that netted over $118,000 in bitcoin for the hackers. One of the most startling things about the cyberattack was that it was led by a…
Beazley has published a report outlining data breaches in the first nine months of 2017. The report notes that the highest cause of a data breach in 2017 so far are unintended disclosures, which accounted for 41 percent of all incidents. Beazley stated: “We urge organizations not to ignore this significant risk and to invest…
I am watching Game 7 of the World Series, and it is the bottom of the 8th and the score is 6-6. It is very difficult to concentrate on this blog post.
So I am taking the easy way out and reminding you to check the privacy settings on your LinkedIn account.
What is…
We can’t go a week without commenting on how rampant ransomware is in the industry. The FBI recently released a report confirming how devastating ransomware has become for U.S. businesses.
According to the report, ransomware infections caused more than $1.6 million in losses in 2015. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 received 2,453 complaints…
Boasting on a Twitter account, a hacker has claimed that he accessed over 9,000 Department of Homeland Security employees’ demographic information, including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and titles.
The hacker claims that he obtained access to 1TB of data directly from the Department of Justice. The hacker explained that he gained access to a…
My Facebook account was hacked on Friday night. We were Skyping our daughter, when she put the screen of her phone up to the computer screen and said, “Mom, why are you friending me?”
I looked at the friend request and immediately noticed that it was from Linn Foster Freedman with no space between my…
An anonymous hacker has contacted the New York Post to explain how he was able to hack into the CIA Director’s AOL email account. According to several reports, a high school student and his two friends implemented social engineering to obtain credentials to hack into the personal account.
How did they do it? According to…
