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:
We’ve all seen this on National Geographic. A lion, tiger, or other top predator hides near a water hole and waits for some sort of four-legged lunch to stop by for a drink. Cyber-criminals and other attackers are using a similar technique to download and install malware from niche or industry specific websites to computer systems at targeted businesses. Here’s how ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Looking to run a phishing attack against your team? Here’s a article from Infosec institute on the top 9 free phishing simulation products.
Your Nigerian Prince is a 67 year old from LouisianaSure looks like a prince to me. Like Prince Charles. (Those ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Nearly identical to last year’s list. Some people never learn. If you are using any of these passwords, please change them now!
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A two-part Frontline documentary on PBS titled Putin’s Revenge examines the rise to power of an obscure ex-KGB agent named Vladimir Putin and the tactics he used to influence the last U.S. Presidential Election. Evidence would indicate that Putin prefers Republics to Democrats. Worth a look. Live stream them here.
The rare Tuesday post, but this couldn’t wait. If you are running a WordPress site, you need to know this. This was just released by WordFence.
Continue Reading →“Early this morning our team was woken up by systems alerts letting us know that we needed to scale up our attack logging capacity. The number of WordPress attacks we were monitoring per hour had ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Google’s “superhuman” AlphaZero artificial intelligence (AI) taught itself chess from scratch in four hours. Then, it wiped the floor with the former world-leading chess software, Stockfish 8. Out of 100 matches, AlphaZero won 28 games and drew (tied) the remaining 72.
This guy is Jeff Bezos, the CEO of the gargantuan super-retailer Amazon.com. Would you give him the keys to your house? No? Well now you can! Amazon recently launched their new Amazon Key service, a smartphone app controlled door lock. As an Amazon Prime member myself, I have received several emails about this new product. My first thought was “what could possibly go ...
Many companies and organization are moving their data repositories to the cloud, to places such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Hopefully, if your company is moving to the cloud, you are doing a better job securing this information than the Department of Defense or the National Security Agency.
The first story involves a trove of data left on AWS servers, and discovered by security ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.11/28/2017 11:10 PM EST Original release date: November 28, 2017
As part of National Tax Security Awareness Week—November 27 to December 1—the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is releasing daily security tips to help taxpayers protect their data and identities against tax-related identity theft.
US-CERT encourages taxpayers to visit the ...
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