When web bots attack, what websites are the most likely to targets? We discussed automated attacks against websites last month. Here is some new information from Distil Networks about who the main targets have been in the recent past. If your business is included in the following list, you may want to ramp up the security posture of your website and web hosting account.
The industries targeted ...
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The early bird gets the worm. The second mouse gets the cheese. The late tax filer gets nothing. Why? April is tax fraud time. The best way to avoid losing your tax refund to a scammer is to file as early as possible, before the tax fraudster can get it done. Having said that, this information would be more valuable in January than in April. From US-CERT.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.…meanwhile, a new study says half of us haven’t checked our credit reports or scores since the breach. No time like the present!
I recently read an article from Heimdal Security about online safety. In this article Heimdal had asked 18 experts in the field of cybersecurity for their top 3 ideas about how to stay secure. The contributors included top cybersecurity professionals from several anti-malware companies, security bloggers, and cybersecurity industry professionals. The original article is here.
What I found interesting were ...
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Windows XP was released on 2001 replaced by Windows Vista (ugh) in 2006, and Windows 7 in 2009. Official support from Microsoft, including security updates, ended in 2014. It is now 16 years old. Yet 7% of PCs worldwide are still running Windows XP. Considering there are about 3 billion PC in use, that’s a whopping 210 million computers. It is easy to assume that most of these computers are ...
If your business accepts credit cards for payment, then your a subject to the regulations of the Payment Card Industry. This is known as PCI-DSS Compliance. PCI compliance company Security Metrics recently released an infographic that shows the main compliance failures that lead to credit card breaches in 2017. Here are some of the startling take-aways:
Every year some pundit declares that the password will soon be dead. I have been proclaiming for several years now that the password, by itself, is no longer a suitably strong form of security, and have been a champion for two-factor authentication.
Microsoft has recently stated that their Windows Hello facial recognition system is a suitable replacement for passwords. Windows Hello ...
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On Monday and Wednesday we took an in depth look at the free dark web scan being offered by Experian. As we found out on Wednesday, I was not too impressed with the results of the free scan. Better information is available from HaveIBeenPwned.com.
What is Experian really offering? The free scan just looked for the email address I provided, ...
Continue Reading →On Monday we started an investigation into the free dark web scan that is being offered by credit agency Experian. Again, this is NOT Equifax, who breached our information last year. This is a different credit agency.
When we ran the free scan on Experian, they found three results. But I knew there was more to find, because I had ...
Continue Reading →I caught an ad on TV the other night that made me curious. Experian is offering a “free dark web report,” ostensibly to see if any of your personal data is for sale on the Dark Web. Well I don’t really need a test to tell me that. Since the Equifax breach, I am pretty sure all of us have information for ...