Cost of Breach Per Record At $217

The new Ponemon Institute 2015 Cost of Data Breach report was released recently.  This report looks at the costs of 2015 large enterprise class data breaches, but there are some salient pieces of information for small business owners to consider when formulating their cyber security risk management plans.

The average cost per record lost in a data breach increased from $201 in 2014 to $217 in 2015.  Different sorts of records had different costs associated to them.  For instance, more detailed ...

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Smartphone Kill Switches Are Here

kill-switch-170Minnesota’s new smartphone “kill switch” law takes effect on July 1, 2015.  It requires that all smartphones sold in Minnesota come with a preinstalled kill switch or a free app which provides the same function.  A similar law in California takes effect on the same date, but requires all phones come with the app preinstalled.  Federal legislation has been proposed, but so far ...

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US Announces It’s Game Over For Zeus Kingpin

Bogachev Wanted posterThe Gameover Zeus and related Neverquest banking Trojan exploits are one of the most truly frightening security nightmares facing small businesses and individuals.  These exploits allow a remote attacker to join you on an online banking session, and then transfer funds from your account after you thought the session was over.

The US State Department has place a $3 million bounty on the head of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, The criminal mastermind behind the Gameover ...

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2FA–When a Password Is Not Enough

Two Factor Authentication, also known as 2FA or TFA, is becoming an attractive, and more available option to using just a user name and password combination as your only online security.  Here’s why.

Typical security systems rely on some subset of the authentication triad:  something you know, something you have, or something you are.  Simple security methods rely on having one of the three.  This is the problem with simple security – an attacker simply needs to acquire the one bit ...

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