At the end of September, the Senate passed the MAIN STREET Cybersecurity Act for Small Business. This is an effort to help small businesses deal with the technical aspects and costs associated with creating a cybersecurity program and protecting their digital assets from attack or compromise. The Act instructs NIST to create a plan for small businesses that is based on the NIST Cybersecurity ...
Three billion (3,000,000,000) is the current tally of breached user IDs, passwords, and customer account information at Yahoo. This is most assuredly all of the user account information they were holding about their customers. If you were or are a Yahoo account holder, just assume your information is among the lost.
Earlier we reported that this breach may have been less significant because ...
Continue Reading →Email account hijacking is a serious, growing problem. It has become the number one way that cyber-criminals make money. What makes it so insidious is the ease with which the hijacker can impersonate the owner of the email account.
What this means to you is this – that email you got from your boss, a close friend, a coworker, a supplier or customer ...
We have complained about the total lack of security and uncessary data gathering by smart devices for a while. Why does a light bulb need to know my location? It’s great when these tech-nerd issues show up in the mainstream media. A big thanks to Sherman’s Lagoon.
There is a new twist on an old tax scam appearing in email inboxes recently. The new phishing exploit uses both IRS and FBI emblems to scare recipients into provide personal information on a downloadable questionnaire. You can read the official warning here.
I like to remind people that the IRS only communicates with taxpayers by postal mail. Sometimes they might send a US Marshal. And the FBI certainly would not be sending an email when they can ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A court ruling means that Yahoo! and its parent company, Verizon, could end paying a heavy price for the huge breaches that saw more than 1 billion people’s details compromised.
Last Friday we covered some of the security issues travelers can face when staying at a hotel. Today we are going to look at air travel – specifically the bad things that can happen to you if you carelessly discard or foolishly post a picture online of your airline boarding pass.
For some reason, people like to post images of their boarding passes ...
Continue Reading →The Equifax breach has been all over the news this weekend, and it should be. This is worse than they are telling us. It most certainly DOES affect you, if you are adult and have ever purchased a car or opened a credit card account. Don’t wait to be told you are a victim. Assume you are a victim.
In a world where we are all suffering from “breach fatigue,” having suffered through dozens if not hundreds of these revelations about ...
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I was recently introduced to a personal cybersecurity service called Rubica. If you are looking for a company that can provide you and your family or your small business with the kind of cybersecurity operations that are available to larger companies, this may be for you.
A bad day for me starts with a client calling to say, “I was hacked,” or to hear that they have fallen ...
Continue Reading →Are you are the owner of a business, or the CEO or other C-level employee? You are prime target for cyber-criminals. Specifically, your email account is a highly desirable target that can be used to impersonate you for invoicing, payment interception, or wire transfer fraud.
If you think you are too small to be a target, you are wrong. I worked on a case of a seven-person company whose owner had an MSN email account. They sent an invoice by email ...
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