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
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Privacy Tip #59 – Check your Privacy Settings on Your LinkedIn Account
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips, Social Media
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…
FBI Report: Ransomware and Phishing Scams Increasing
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
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…
Hacker has possession of 9,000 Department of Homeland Security employee information through social engineering and threatens to release data of 20,000 FBI employees
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
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…
Privacy Tip #19 – Social media account hackings and social engineering
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
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…
CIA Director’s email account hacked
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
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…